MENTAL DISORDERS

 Research Guide

Table of Contents

General information on mental disorders | Agoraphobia | Antisocial personality disorder | Anxiety disorders | Avoidant personality disorder | Bipolar disorder | Cognitive impairment | Depression | Dissociative identity disorder | Gender identity disorder | Obsessive compulsive disorder | Panic disorder | Phobias | Post-traumatic stress disorder | Schizophrenia | Sexual dysfunction | Social phobia | Somatoform disorder | Specific (simple) phobia | Stress-related disorders | Substance-related disorders | APA citation style examples |

General information on mental disorders

Reference area

• Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders: DSM-IV-TR / American Psychiatric Association - M-RESERVE REF RC455.2.C4D536 2000

• Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders: DSM-IV / American Psychiatric Association - M-REFSTACK REF RC455.2.C4D54 1994

• Diagnostic criteria from DSM-IV / American Psychiatric Association - M-RESERVE REF RC455.2.C4D543 1994

• The encyclopedia of mental health / Ada P. Kahn - M-REFSTACK REF RC437.K34 1993

• The encyclopedia of human behavior, psychology, psychiatry, and mental health / Robert M. Goldenson - T-REF Ref BF31.G6

• International dictionary of psychology / Stuart Sutherland -     M-RFFSTACK REF BF31.S83 1989

• Concise encyclopedia of psychology / Raymond J. Corsini and Alan J. Auerbach - M-REFSTACK REF BF31.E553 1996

• Handbook of child psychology / William Damn (Ed.) - M-REFSTACK REF BF721.H242 1997

• Encyclopedia of adult development / Robert Kastenbaum - M-REFSTACK REF BF724.5.E53 1993

• Encyclopedia of drugs, alcohol & addictive behavior / Rosalyn Carson-DeWitt (ed.) - M-REFSTACK HV5804.E53 2000

• Encyclopedia of understanding alcohol and other drugs / Robert O'Brien (Ed.)  - M-REFSTACK HV5017.037 1999

• Mental health disorders sourcebook: Basic consumer health information about anxiety disorders, depression, and other mood disorders... / Karen Bellenir (Ed.) - M-REFSTACK RC454.4.M458 2000

• Encyclopedia of phobias, fears, and anxieties / Ronald M. Doctor and Ada P. Kahn - M-REFSTACK REF RC535.D63 1989

• Drug abuse sourcebook: Basic consumer health information about illicit substances of abuse and the diversion of prescription medication.../ Karen Bellenir - M-REFSTACK HV5801.D724 2000

• Substance abuse sourcebook: Basic health-related information about the abuse of legal and illegal substances such as alcohol, tobacco, prescription drugs, marijuana, cocaine, and heroin; and including facts about substance abuse prevention strategies... / M-REFSTACK RC564.S8372 1996

• Encyclopedia of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders / Richard Noll - M-REFSTACK RC514.N63 2000

• Encyclopedia of drugs, alcohol, and addictive behavior / Rosalyn Carson-DeWitt (ed.) - M-REFSTACK HV5804.R53 2000

Book stacks

• Abnormal psychology and modern life / Robert C. Carson and James N. Butcher - M-STACK RC454.C275 1991 or T-STACK RC454.C275 1998

• Abnormal psychology: Current perspectives / Lauren B. Alloy - M-STACK RC454.B577 1996

• Abnormal psychology in a changing world / Jeffrey S. Nevid, Spencer A. Rathus, and Beverly Greene M-STACK RJ507.S49 F753 1995

• Abnormal psychology / Timothy W. Costello and Joseph T. Costello - M-STACK RC454.C665 1992

• Exploring abnormal psychology / Richard S. Perrotto and Joseph Culkin - M-STACK RC454.P425 1993

• Casebook in abnormal psychology / John Vitkus - M-STACK RC465.V58 1993

• Abnormal psychology / David Holmes - M-STACK RC454.H62 1991

• Evolution in mind: An introduction to evolutionary psychology / Henry Plotkin - M-STACK BF701.P57

• How the mind works / Steven Pinker - M-STACK QP360.5.P56 1999

• Case histories of psychopathology / Gloria Rakita Leon - M-STACK RC465.L44 1990

• Basic writings of Sigmund Freud / A. A. Brill (ed.) - M-STACK BF109.F74A25 1995b

• Physiology of behavior / Neil R. Carlson - M-STACK QP360.C35 2001

• Affective neuroscience: The foundations of human and animal emotions / Jaak Panksepp - M-STACK BF531.P35 1998

• Neurobiology of mental illness / Dennis S. Charney (Ed.) - M-STACK RC341.N393 1999

• Taking sides. Clashing views on controversial psychological issues / Brent Slife (Ed.)

Videos

• Discovering psychology - WGBH Boston in association with the American Psychological Association - T-STACK BF131.D55x 1989

Journals and magazines

• Journal of abnormal psychology - M-PER

• Journal of personality and social psychology - M-PER

• Mind - M-PER

• American psychologist - M-PER

• Developmental psychology - M-PER

Associations and organizations web sites

• American Psychological Association: http://www.apa.org

• National Institute of Mental Health: http://www.nimh.nih.gov

• Anxiety Disorders Association of America: http://www.adaa.org

• National Anxiety Foundation: http://www.lexington-on-line.com/naf.html

• The American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress: http://www.aaets.org

• National Society for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: http://www.ncptsd.org

• Sidran Traumatic Stress Institute: http://sidran.org

• International Society for the Study of Dissociation: http://www.issd.org

• Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA): http://www.DBSAlliance.org

• National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression: http://www.narsad.org

Web sites

• The Office of the Surgeon General: Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General: http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/mentalhealth/toc.html (general information on the brain, mental health, and mental disorders.)

• National Council on Disability: The Well Being of Our Nation: An Inter-Generational Vision on Effective Mental Health Services and Supports: http://www.ncd.gov/newsroom/publications/mentalhealth.html

• Office of the Surgeon General: Report of the Surgeon General's Conference on Children's Mental Health: http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/topics/cmh/childreport.htm

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Specific mental disorders

Agoraphobia

Books available in the Library

• Afraid of everything: A personal history of agoraphobia / Daryl M. Woods - M-STACK RC535.W6 1984

• American psychiatric publishing textbook on anxiety disorders / Dan J. Stein and Eric Hollander (Eds.)

Books available from other libraries

• Panic disorders and agoraphobia: A guide / John H. Greist and James W. Jefferson

• Uneasy lives: Understanding anxiety disorders / Linda Bayer

• Phobic disorders and panic in adults: A guide to assessment and treatment / Martin M. Antony and Richard P. Swinson

• Anxiety, panic attacks and agoraphobia: Information for support people, family and friends / Kenneth V. Strong

• Constructing panic: The discourse of agoraphobia / Lisa Capps and Elinor Ochs

• Agoraphobia / Peter Ganick

• Agoraphobia: Coming to terms with the world outside / Muriel Frampton

Videos available from other libraries

• Inside out / Agoraphobe, Inc.

• The world of abnormal psychology. Program 3. The anxiety disorders / Alvin H. Perlmutter, Inc. in association with Toby Levine Communications

• Panic / Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Web sites

• MedlinePlus Health Information: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000931.htm (Definition, illustrations, causes, symptoms, treatment, prevention.)

• Internet Mental Health: http://www.mentalhealth.com/dis/p20-an02.html (Description, diagnosis, treatment, research information, booklets, magazine articles, internet links.)

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Antisocial personality disorder

Books in the Library

• Mask of sanity: An attempt to clarify some issues about the so-called psychopathic personality / Hervey Cleckley - M-STACK RC555.C5 1988

• High risk / Ken Magid and Carole A. McKelvey - M-STACK RC555.M27 1988

Books available from other libraries

• Antisocial behavior in children and adolescents: A development analysis and model for intervention / John B. Reid

• Personality disorders / Linda Bayer

• The science, treatment, and prevention of antisocial behaviors: Application to the criminal justice system /  Diana H. Fishbein

• Conduct disorders and severe antisocial behavior / Paul J. Frick

• Understanding and treating antisocial personality disorder: Criminals, chemical abusers, and batterers / Gregory L. Little and Kenneth D. Robinson

• The antisocial personalities / David T. Lykken

Videos available from other libraries

• The world of abnormal psychology. Program 5. Personality disorders / Alvin H. Perlmutter, Inc. in association with Toby Levine Communications

• Personality disorders / Alvin H. Perlmutter, Inc. in association with Toby Levine Communications

• The psychopathic mind / Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

• Personality disorders: Antisocial, histrionic, and schizotypal behaviors / Medical Sciences Teaching Laboratories, Television Section and the Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Web sites

• Internet Mental Health: http://www.mentalhealth.com/dis/p20-pe04.html (Description, diagnosis, treatment, research information, booklets, magazine articles, internet links.)

• MedlinePlus Health Information: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000921.htm (Definition, illustrations, causes, symptoms, treatment, and prevention.)

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Anxiety disorders

Books available in the Library

• Anxiety and panic attack: Their cause and cure: five-point life-plus program for conquering fear / Robert Handly and Pauline Neff - T-STACK BF575.F2H23 1985

• American psychiatric publishing textbook on anxiety disorders / Dan J. Stein and Eric Hollander (Eds.) - M-STACK RC531.A525 2002

• Shyness and social anxiety workbook: Proven techniques for overcoming your fears / Martin M. Antony and Richard P. Swinson - M-STACK BF575.B3A58 2000

• Separation anxiety disorder: Psychodynamics and psychotherapy / Richard A. Gardner - M-STACK RJ506.S46G37 1985

Videos available in the Library

• Anxiety disorders / Mosby; Samuel Merritt College, Studio Three Productions

Books available from other libraries

• Anxiety and its disorders: The nature and treatment of anxiety and panic / David H. Barlow

• Panic disorder / Nacy M. Campbell

• Comparative treatments for anxiety disorders / Robert A. DiTomasso and Elizabeth A. Gosch (Eds.)

• Panic: Origins, insight, and treatment / Leonard J. Schmidt and Brooke Warner (Eds.)

• Anxiety disorders in children and adolescents: research, assessment, and intervention / Wendy K. Silverman and Philip D.A. Treffers (Eds.)

• Everything you need to know about anxiety and panic attacks / John Giacobello

• Understanding panic and other anxiety disorders / Benjamin A. Root

• Anxiety disorders: Psychological approaches to theory and treatment / Michelle G. Craske

Videos available from other libraries

• Fires of the mind / Terra Nova Television, Inc.

Web sites

• National Institute of Mental Health: http://www.nimh.nih.gov/anxiety/anxietymenu.cfm (Description, symptoms, treatment, research information.)

• MedlinePlus Health Information: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/anxiety.html (General overview, clinical trials, diagnosis, treatment, children, seniors, teenagers, and research information.)

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Avoidant personality disorder

Books available in the Library

• Mask of sanity: An attempt to clarify some issues about the so-called psychopathic personality / Hervey Cleckley - M-STACK RC555.C5 1988

Books available from other libraries

• Personality disorders / Linda Bayer

• Personality disorders and the five-factor model of personality / Paul T. Costa (Ed.)

• Cognitive therapy of personality disorders  / Aaron T. Beck

Web sites

• eMedicine: http://www.emedicine.com/ped/topic189.htm (Background information, clinical, treatment, medication, related articles.)

• MedlinePlus Health Information: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000940.htm (Definition, causes, symptoms, signs and tests, treatment, prevention.)

• Mental-Health-Matters.com: http://www.mental-health-matters.com/disorders/dis_details.php?disID=13 (Description, diagnosis, treatment, medication, related articles, related books.)

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Bipolar disorder

Books available in the Library

• Bipolar disorder: A cognitive therapy approach / Cory F. Newman - M-STACK RC516.B525 2002

• Bipolar child: the definitive and reassuring guide to childhood's most misunderstood disorder / Demitri F. Papolos - T-STACK RJ506.D4P36 1999

Videos available in the Library

• Bipolar disorder / Mosby; Samuel Merritt College, Studio Three Productions

• Nursing the mind / Summer Productions - M-STACK RC440.N87 2000

Books available from other libraries

• The pits and the pendulum: A life with bipolar disorder / Brian Adams

• Surviving manic depression: A manual on bipolar disorder for patients, families, and providers / E. Fuller Torrye and Michael B. Knable

• Bipolar disorder / Mario Maj (Ed.)

• Everything you need to know about bipolar disorder and manic depressive illness / Michael A. Sommers

• Bipolar disorder / Judith Peacock

Videos available from other libraries

• Living with bipolar disorder: a new look / Guilford Publications in cooperation with Monkey See Productions

Web sites

• MedlinePlus Health Information: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/bipolardisorder.html (General overview, clinical trials, research, treatment, organizations, children, teenagers, seniors.)

• National Institute of Mental Health: http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/bipolar.cfm (Description, causes, treatment, suicide, how to get help, clinical studies, references.)

• Internet Mental Health: http://www.mentalhealth.com/dis/p20-md02.html (Description, diagnosis, treatment, research information, booklets, magazine articles, internet links.)

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Cognitive impairment

Books in the Library

• Key aspects of elder care: Managing falls, incontinence, and cognitive impairment / Sandra Funk (Ed.) - M-STACK RC954.K49 1992

Books available from other libraries

• The learning differences sourcebook / Nancy S. Boyles and Darlene Contadino

Web sites

• National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism: http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/aa53.htm (Article on cognitive impairment and recovery from alcoholism.)

• BMC Neurology: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2377/2/6 (Article "To what degree does cognitive impairment in Alzeimer's disease predict dependence of patients on caregivers?"

• Discovery Health Channel: http://health.discovery.com/diseasesandcond/encyclopedia/2829.html (Causes, symptoms, prevention, treatment.)

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Depression

Books available in the Library

• Encyclopedia of depression / Roberta Roesch - M-STACK RC537.R63 2001

• Sex differences in depression / Susan Nolen-Hoeksema - M-STACK RC537.N65 1990

• Cognitive processes in depression / Lauren B. Alloy - M-STACK RC537.C62 1988

• Silencing the self: women and depression / Dana Crowley Jack - M-STACK RC537.J26 1991

• Postpartum depression and child development / Lynne Murray and Peter Cooper (eds.) - M-STACK RG852.P684 1997

• Cognitive therapy for depressed adolescents / T.R.C. Wilkes - M-STACK RJ506.D4C64 1994

• Overcoming depression / Demitri F. Papolos and Janice Papolos - M-STACK RC537.P36 1992

• Healing power of exercise: Your guide to preventing and treating diabetes, depression, heart disease, high blood pressure, arthritis, and more / Linn Goldberg and Diane L. Elliot

Videos available in the Library

• Depression - M-STACK RC537.D4275 1987

• Depression - M-STACK RC537.D4275 1987b

• Depression and manic depression: Real stories, real hope / National Depression Screening Day - M-STACK RC537.D424 1998

• Faces of depression / National Mental Health Association  - M-STACK RC537.N21 1993

• Depression: A reason for hope / SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals - M-STACK RC537.U57 1996

• Surviving depression: There is hope - M-STACK RC537.S87 1998

Books available from other libraries

• Understanding depression: What we know and what you can do about it / J. Raymond DePaulo, Jr.

• Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for depression: A new approach to preventing relapse / Zindel V. Segal

• Depression: Self-consciousness, pretending, and guilt / Ernest Keen

• The many faces of depression in children and adolescents / David Shaffer and Bruce D. Waslick (Eds.)

• An atlas of depression / David S. Baldawin and Jon Birtwistle

• Handbook of depression / Ian H. Gotlib and Constance L. Hemmen (Eds.)

• Bipolar disorder, depression, and other mood disorders / Helen A. Demetriades

• Depression sourcebook: Basic consumer health information about unipolar depression, bipolar disorder, postpartum depression, seasonal affective disorder, and other types of depression in children, adolescents, women, men, the elderly, and other selected populations... / Karen Bellenir (Ed.)

• Depression in action: Strategies for guided action / Christopher R. Martell

• The treatment of depression: Bridging the 21st century / Myrna M. Weissman (Ed.)

Videos available from other libraries

• Fires of the mind / Terra Nova Television, Inc.

• Nursing the mind / Summer Productions

Web sites

• MedlinePlus Health Information: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/depression.html (General overview, clinical trials, research, treatment, organizations, latest news, children, teenagers, women, seniors.)

• National Institute of Mental Health: http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/depression.cfm (Description, causes, treatment, suicide, how to get help, clinical studies, references.)

• Internet Mental Health: http://www.mentalhealth.com/fr20.html (Description, diagnosis, treatment, research information, booklets, magazine articles, internet links.)

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Dissociative Identity Disorder

Books available in the Library

• Uses of disorder: Personal identity & city life / Richard Sennett - M-STACK HT151.S44

Books available from other libraries

• Assessing the validity of dissociative identity disorder: Examining its interface with other trauma-related disorders of adulthood / Katherine Baur Aracri

• The dissociative identity disorder sourcebook / Deborah Bray Haddock

• Treating dissociative identity disorder: The power of the collective heart / Sarah Y. Krakauer

• Dissociative identity disorder: Diagnosis, clinical features, and treatment of multiple personality / Colin A. Ross

• Dissociative identity disorder: Theoretical and treatment controversies / Lewis M. Cohen (Ed.)

Web sites

• Healthub.com: http://www.healthubs.com/dissociative/ (Overviews, full-text articles, diagnosis and treatment, research projects.)

• Sidran Traumatic Stress Institute: http://www.sidran.org/didbr.html (Description, symptoms, diagnosis.)

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Gender identity disorder

Books available in the Library

• Wild seed / Octavia E. Butler - M-STACK PS3552.U827W54 1999b

• As nature made him: The boy who was raised as a girl / John Colapinto - T-STACK RC560.G45C65 2000

• Crossing: A memoir / Deirdre McCloskey - T-STACK HQ77.8.M39A3 1999

• Uses of disorder: Personal identity and city life / Richard Sennett - M-STACK HT151.S44

Videos available in the Library

• Smell of burning ants / Locomotion Films - M-STACK HQ783.S63 1994

• On being a man - M-STACK HQ1090.O58 1990

Books available from other libraries

• Personality characteristics of individuals seeking treatment for gender identity disorder / Dawn R. Banks

• Handbook of child and adolescent sexual problems / George A. Rekers (Ed.)

• Gender identity disorder and psychosexual problems in children and adolescents / Kenneth J. Zuker and Susan J. Bradley

Web sites

• PsychNet-UK: http://www.psychnet-uk.com/dsm_iv/gender_identity_disorder.htm (Diagnostic criteria, associated features, causes, treatment.)

• MedlinePlus: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001527.htm (General overview, clinical trials, research, treatment, organizations, latest news, children, teenagers, women, seniors.)

• Psychology Today: http://www.psychologytoday.com/htdocs/prod/PTOInfo/pto_term_genderid.asp (Definition, symptoms, causes, therapy, articles.)

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Obsessive compulsive disorder

Books available in the Library

• The boy who couldn't stop washing: The experience & treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder / Judith L. Rapoport - T-STACK RC533.R6 1989

• Selfwatching: Addictions, habits, compulsions, what to do about them / Ray Hodgson and Peter Miller - T- STACK RC564.H6 1982

Books available from other libraries

• The obsessive-compulsive disorder: Pastoral care for the road to change / Robert M. Collie

Web sites

• National Institute of Mental Health: http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/ocd.cfm (Description, key features, causes, screening, treatment, how to get help, research, references.)

• Internet Mental Health: http://www.mentalhealth.com/dis/p20-an05.html (Description, diagnosis, treatment, research information, booklets, magazine articles, internet links.)

• MedlinePlus Health Information: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/obsessivecompulsivedisorder.html (General overviews, coping, research, specific conditions, treatment, dictionaries, directories, organizations, statistics, children.)

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Panic disorder

Books available in the Library

• Understanding panic disorder / National Institute of Mental Health - M-PAM

Videos available in the Library

• Panic disorder: Stories of hope / Modern Talking Picture Service - T-STACK MED RC535.P2935 V.1 & 2

Books available from other libraries

• Panic disorder  and anxiety in adolescence / Sara G. Mattis and Thomas H. Ollendick

• Panic disorder / Nancy M. Campbell

• Panic: Origins, insight and treatment / Leonard J. Schmidt and Brooke Warner (eds.)

• Panic disorders and agoraphobia: a guide / John H. Griest and James W. Jefferson

• Understanding and treating panic disorder: Cognitive-behavioural approaches / Steven Taylor

• Facts about. Panic disorder. / National Institute of Mental Health

• Panic disorder / Stanley Rachman and Padmal de Silva

Videos available from other libraries

• Cognitive therapy for panic disorders / David M. Clark

• Fear: Panic attack / Pfizer, Inc.

• Fires of the mind / Terra Nova Television, Inc.

Web sites

• National Institute of Mental Health: http://www.nimh.nih.gov/anxiety/panicmenu.cfm (Description, key features, causes, screening, treatment, how to get help, research, references.)

• MedlinePlus Health Information: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/panicdisorder.html (General overviews, coping, research, specific conditions, treatment, dictionaries, directories, organizations, statistics, children.)

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Phobias

Books available in the Library

• Encyclopedia of phobias, fears, and anxieties / Ronald M. Doctor and Ada P. Kahn - M-REFSTACK REF RC535.D63 1989

• Mental health information for teens: Health tips about mental health and mental illness: indicating facts about anxiety, depression, suicide, eating disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorders, panic attacks, phobias, schizophrenia, and more - M-STACK RJ499.M419 2001

Videos available in the Library

• Panic disorder: Stories of hope / Modern Talking Picture Service - T-STACK MED RC535.P2935 V.1 & 2

Books available from other libraries

• Phobias / Gail B. Stewart

• Phobias: Fighting the fear / Helen Saul

• Everything you need to know about phobias / Erin Hovanec

• Phobic disorders and panic in adults: A guide to assessment and treatment / Martin M. Anthony and Richard P. Swinson

• The anxiety and phobia workbook / Edmund J. Bourne

• Phobias: Everything you wanted to know, but were afraid to ask / Judy Monroe

Videos available from other libraries

• Fears, phobias and obssessions / NBC News

Web sites

• MedlinePlus Health Information: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/phobias.html (General overviews, coping, research, specific conditions, treatment, dictionaries, directories, organizations, statistics, children.)

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Post-traumatic stress disorder

Books available in the Library

• Too scared to cry: Psychic trauma in childhood / M-STACK RJ506.P66T47 1990

• Psychological trauma and the adult survivor: Theory, therapy, and transformation / I. Lisa McCann and Laurie A. Pearlman - M-STACK RC552.P67M38 1990

• Chris intervention: Theory and methodology / Donna C Aguilera - M-STACK RC480.6.A38 1994

• I can't get over it: A handbook for trauma survivors / Aphrodite Matsakis - M-STACK RC552.P67M38 1992

• Effective treatments for PTSD: Practice guidelines from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies / Edna B. Foa (Ed.) - M-STACK RC552.P67E35 2000

Books available from other libraries

• Coping with post-traumatic stress disorder: Dealing with tragedy / Carolyn Simpson and Dwain Simpson

• Gender and PTSD / Rachel Kimerling (ed.)

• The PTSD workbook / Mary Beth Williams and Soili Poijula

• Supporting children with post-traumatic stress disorder: A practical guide for teachers and professionals / David Kinchin and Erica Brown

• PTSD in children and adoloscents / American Psychiatric Publications

• Treating psychological trauma and PTSD / John P. Wilson (ed.)

• The post-traumatic stress disorder: A guide to healing, recovery, and growth / Glenn R. Schiraldi

• Post traumatic stress disorder: The latest assessment and treatment strategies / Matthew J. Friedman

• Post-traumatic stress theory: Research and application / John H. Harvey and Brian G. Pauwels

Videos available from other libraries

• What is childhood trauma / Linkletter Films: Magma Systems

• White badge /  Phaedra Cinema

Web sites

• MedlinePlus Health Information: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/posttraumaticstressdisorder.html (General overviews, coping, research, specific conditions, treatment, dictionaries, directories, organizations, statistics, children.)

• National Center for PTSD: http://www.ncptsd.org/ (Facts about PTSD, topics in PTSD, publications, assessment.)

• National Institute of Mental Health: http://www.nimh.nih.gov/anxiety/ptsdmenu.cfm (Description, key features, causes, screening, treatment, how to get help, research, references.)

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Schizophrenia

Books available in the Library

• Divided self: An existential study in sanity and madness / R. D. Laing - M-STACK RC465.L3 1990

• Schizophrenia genesis: The origins of madness / Irving I. Gottesman - M-STACK RC514.G673 1991

• Encyclopedia of schizophrenia and the psychotic disorders / Richard Noll - M-REFSTACK REF RC514.N63 1991

• Encyclopedia of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders / Richard Noll - M-REFSTACK RC514.N63 2000

Videos available in the Library

• Dual diagnosis / Samuel Merritt College, Studio Three Productions

• Understanding and communicating with a person who is hallucinating / Mary D. Moller - M-STACK RC553.H3U55 1989

• Schizophrenia: Symptomatology / Concept Media - M-STACK RC514.S35 1980

• Schizophrenia: The voices from within / Films for the Humanities and Sciences - M-STACK RC14.S3 1990b

• Inside schizophrenia / Concept Media - M-STACK RC514.I57 1996

Books available from other libraries

• Schizophrenia / Scott Barbour (Ed.)

• Diagnosis: Schizophrenia: A comprehensive resource for patients, families, and helping professionals / Rachel Miller and Susan E. Mason (Eds.)

• Schizophrenia: A scientific delusion? / Mary Boyle

• Schizophrenia in children and adolescents / Helmut Remschmidt (Ed.)

• Coping with schizophrenia / Evelyn B. Kelly

• Social cognition and schizophrenia / Patrick W. Corrigan and David L. Penn (Eds.)

• Schizophrenia revealed: From neurons to social interactions / Michael Foster Green

• Surviving schizophrenia: A manual for families, consumers, and providers / E. Fuller Torrey

Videos available from other libraries

• A brilliant madness / Yellow Jersey Films

Web sites

• MedlinePlus Health Information: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/schizophrenia.html (General overviews, coping, research, specific conditions, treatment, dictionaries, directories, organizations, statistics, children.)

• National Institute of Mental Health: http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/schizmenu.cfm (Description, key features, causes, screening, treatment, how to get help, research, references.)

• Internet Mental Health: http://www.mentalhealth.com/dis/p20-ps01.html  (Description, diagnosis, treatment, research information, booklets, magazine articles, internet links.)

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Sexual dysfunction

Books available in other libraries

• Sexual disorders / Charles Shields

• Sexual dysfunction: A guide for assessment and treatment / John P. Wincze and Michael P. Carey

• Male infertility and sexual dysfunction / Wayne J.G. Hellstrom (Ed.)

• Sexual dysfunction: A neuro-medical approach / Carlos Singer and William J. Weiner (Eds.)

Web sites

• HealthFinder: http://www.healthfinder.gov/news/newsstory.asp?docID=511119 (General information, what to do.)

• MedlinePlus: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/femalesexualdysfunction.html (General overviews, coping, research, specific conditions, treatment, dictionaries, directories, organizations, statistics, children.)

• Health: http://www.athealth.com/Consumer/disorders/Sexual.html (General information, articles on sexual dysfunction.)

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Social phobia

Books available in the Library

• Shyness and social anxiety workbook: Proven techniques for overcoming your fears / Martin M. Antony and Richard P. Swinson - M-STACK BF575.B3A58 2000

Books available from other libraries

• Triumph over shyness: conquering shyness and social anxiety / Murray B. Stein and John R. Walker

• From social anxiety to social phobia: multiple perspectives / Stefan G. Hofmann and Patricia M. DiBartolo

• Do you feel afraid and uncomfortable when you are around other people?: A real illness: social phobia / Department of Health and Human Services

• Facts about. Social phobia / National Institute of Mental Health

• Extreme fear, shyness, and social phobia: Origins, biological mechanisms, and clinical outcomes / Louis A. Schmidt and Jay Schulkin

• Shy children, phobic adults: nature and treatment of social phobia / Deborah C. Beidel and Samuel M. Turner

• Social phobia: Diagnosis, assessment, and treatment / Richard G. Heimberg (Ed.)

Videos available from other libraries

• A behavioral approach to anxiety

• I think they think: Overcoming social phobia / Guilford Publications, Inc.

Web sites

• Internet Mental Health: http://www.mentalhealth.com/dis/p20-an03.html (Description, diagnosis, treatment, research information, booklets, magazine articles, internet links.)

• National Institute of Mental Health: http://www.nimh.nih.gov/anxiety/socialphobiamenu.cfm (Description, key features, causes, screening, treatment, how to get help, research, references.)

• Health athealth.com: http://www.athealth.com/Consumer/disorders/SocialPhobia.html (Newsletters, treatment, important issues, featured articles, resource center, bookstore.)

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Somatoform disorder

Books available from other libraries

• Somatoform and factitious disorders / Katharine A. Phillips (Ed.) 

• Child and adolescent psychological disorders: A comprehensive textbook / Sandra D. Netherton (Ed.)

• Mind-body problems: Psychotherapy with psychosomatic disorders / Janet Schumacher Finell (Ed.)

• Current concepts of somatization: Research and clinical perspectives / Laurence J. Kirmayer and James M. Robbins (Eds.) 

• Somatization disorder in the medical setting / G. Richard Smith, Jr.

• The somatizing child: Diagnosis and treatment of conversion and somatization disorders / Elsan G. Shapiro and Alvin A. Rosenfeld

Videos available from other libraries

• Psychiatric and behavioral problems in primary care / Jack M. Gorman

Web sites

• eMedicine: http://www.emedicine.com/ped/topic1706.htm (Pain, body dysmorphic, conversion disorders: background, causes, treatment.)

• About Our Kids: http://www.aboutourkids.org/articles/about_psychosomatic.html (Symptoms, life stories, treatment, references.)

• PsychNet-UK: http://www.psychnet-uk.com/clinical_psychology/clinical_psychology_somatoform2_hypocondrias.htm (General information on different types of somatoform disorders, diagnosis, patient management.)

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Specific (simple) phobia

Books available in the Library

• American Psychiatric publishing textbook of anxiety disorders / Dan J. Stein and Eric Hollander - M-STACK RC531.A525 2002

Books available from other libraries

• Overcoming specific phobia: A hierarchy and exposure based protocol for the treatment of all specific phobias: therapist protocol / Edmund J. Bourne

Web sites

• Internet Mental Health: http://www.mentalhealth.com/dis/p20-an04.html (Description, diagnosis, treatment, research information, booklets, magazine articles, internet links.)

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Stress-related disorders

Books available in the Library

• Wellness book: The comprehensive guide to maintaining health and treating stress-related illness / Herbert Benson - M-STACK RA785.W45 1991

• Crisis intervention: Theory and methodology / Donna C. Aguilera - M-STACK RC480.6.A38 1998

Books available from other libraries

• Does stress damage the brain?: Understanding trauma-related disorders from a mind-body perspective / J. Douglas Bremmer

• Stress-related disorders sourcebook: Basic consumer health information about stress and stress-related disorders... / Joyce Brennfleck Shannon (Ed.)

• Stress management / James S. Gordon

• Stress and addiction / Edward Gottheil (Ed.)

Videos available from other libraries

• Anxiety related disorders: The worried well / Films for the Humanities and Sciences

• Medically speaking: Family health issues / World Affairs in cooperation with WCFE and the PBS Border Consortium

Web sites

• MedlinePlus: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/stress.html (Latest news, general overview, clinical trials, coping, disease management, research, specific conditions, organizations, children, seniors, teenagers, women.)

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Substance-related disorders

Books available in the Library

• Ecyclopedia of drugs, alcohol and addictive behavior  / Rosalyn Carson-DeWitt (Ed.) - M-REFSTACKS HV5804.E53 2000

• Encyclopedia of understanding alcohol and other drugs / Robert O'Brien (Ed.) - M-REFSTACK HV5017.O37 1999

• Substance abuse sourcebook: basic health-related information about the abuse of legal and illegal substances such as alcohol, tobacco, prescription drugs, marijuana, cocaine, and heroin; and including facts about substance abuse prevention strategies... / M-REFSTACK RC564.S8372 1996

Videos available in the Library

• Addiction disease / Gary Whiteaker Corporation - M-STACK RC566.A1A3 1993

Books available from other libraries

• Substance abuse in the mentally and physically disabled / John R. Hubbard and Peter R. Martin (Eds.)

• Addictions: A comprehensive guidebook / Barbara S. McCrady and Elizabeth E. Epstein (Eds.)

• Perinatal impact of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs / Margaret H. Kearney (Ed.)

• New treatments for chemical addictions / Elinore F. McCance-Katz and Thomas R. Kosten (Eds.)

• Combined tobacco and alcohol addictions: A prototypic form of polydrug abuse / Joan A. Christen and Arden G. Christen

Web sites

• MedlinePlus Health Information: Alcoholism: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/alcoholism.html (General overviews, coping, research, specific conditions, treatment, dictionaries, directories, organizations, statistics, children.)

• MedlinePlus Health Information: Smoking: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/smoking.html (General overviews, coping, research, specific conditions, treatment, dictionaries, directories, organizations, statistics, children.)

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APA Citation Style Examples

References (the list of sources you used for writing your paper)

Books

One Author:

American Psychiatric Association. (2000). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental

          disorders. (4th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.

Two Authors:

Carson, R. C., & Butcher, J. N. (1998). Abnormal psychology and modern life. New York:

          Addison Wesley Longman.

Three Authors:

Nevid, J. S., Rathus, S. A., & Greene, B. (1995). Abnormal psychology in a changing

          world. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Edited Collection of Essays by Different Authors:

Brown, T. A. (2002). Classification of anxiety disorders. In Stein, D. J., & Hollander, E.

           (Eds.), American psychiatric publishing textbook of anxiety disorders.

            Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.

Encyclopedia Entry:

Cognitive therapy. In Encyclopedia of phobias, fears, and anxieties. (pp. 110). New York:

          FactsOnFile.

Periodicals

Journal Article:

Journal with continuous pagination:

Appelbaum, P. S. (2002). Privacy in psychiatric treatment: Threats and responses. The

          American Journal of Psychiatry, 159, 1809- 18.

Journal paginated by issue:

Bowman, S. L. (2003). A call to action in lesbian, gay, and  bisexual theory building and

           research. The Counseling Psychologist, 31 (1), 63-69.

Article from online database:

Pace, B. (2000, June). Generalized anxiety disorder. JAMA, 283, 23, 3156. Retrieved

            February 19, 2003, from Expanded Academic ASAP database.

Videos

The brain: Inside information: the brain and how it works. (1998). [Motion picture].

            (Available from Films for the Humanities and Sciences, PO Box 2053, Princeton,

             NJ 08543-2053)

World Wide Web sites

MEDLINEplus Health Information. (2003, February 16). Schizophrenia. Retrieved February

             20, 2003, from: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/schizophrenia.html

In-text Citations

Paraphrasing

Book or article authors:

One Author:

Matsakis (1992) showed that our central nervous system is vulnerable (p. 29).

or

Our central nervous system is vulnerable (Matsakis, 1992, p. 29).

Two Authors:

Carson and Butcher (1991, p. 181) stated that neurotic behavior is maladaptive.

or

Neurotic behavior is maladaptive (Carson & Butcher, 1991, p. 181).

Web sites:

 MEDLINEplus describes schizophrenia as a brain disease that is chronic, severe, and disabling (2003, Schizophrenia: What is it?, para. 1).

or

Schizophrenia is defined as a chronic, severe, and disabling brain disease (MEDLINEplus, 2003, Schizophrenia: What is it?, para. 1).

Quoting

Book or article authors:

Matsakis (1992) affirmed that "like the rest of the body, your central nervous system is vulnerable" (p. 29).

or

"Like the rest of the body, your central nervous system is vulnerable" (Matsakis, 1992, p. 29).

Web sites

MEDLINEplus (2003) defines schizophrenia as "a chronic, severe, and disabling brain disease" (Schizophrenia: What is it?, para. 1).

or

"Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe, and disabling brain disease" (MEDLINEplus, Schizophrenia: What is it?, para. 1).

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