AA is an international self-help group that helps people who want to stop drinking alcohol. Individual groups vary, and some are more supportive of people who are dually diagnosed and need to take psychotropic medications.
Visit the Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), Al-Anon, Alateen web site
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ADEAR is the part of the National Institutes of Health that provides information about all aspects of Alzheimer's Disease.
Alzheimer’s Disease Educational and Referral Centers (ADEAR)
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Formerly the American Association on Mental Retardation, AAIDD promotes progressive policies, sound research, effective practices, and universal human rights for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
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AACAP is the leading national professional medical association dedicated to treating and improving the quality of life for children, adolescents, and families affected by these disorders. Their “Facts for Families” are a great source of information for children and adolescents and their family members.
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP)
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Founded in 1985, AANP is the largest, full-service organization for nurse practitioners in the U.S.
American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
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This is a professional organization open to everyone interested in the history of nursing. The purpose of the Association is to foster the importance of history as relevant to understanding the past, defining the present, and influencing the future of nursing.
American Association for the History of Nursing
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The American Association of Forensic Nurses provides information about forensic nursing and education programs
American Association of Forensic Nurses
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This association's website provides extensive information on obesity and overweight.
American Obesity Association
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The official professional organization for American psychiatry. Its “Public Information” section provides information for laypeople.
American Psychiatric Association (APA)
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The APNA is a professional membership organization of nearly 5,000 members committed to the specialty practice of psychiatric mental health nursing.
American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA)
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ANRED's provides information on anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge-eating and other food and weight disorders. The organization distributes materials on self-help, prevention and recovery.
Anorexia Nervosa and Related Eating Disorders, Inc. (ANRED)
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The ADAA is the only national, non-profit organization solely dedicated to informing the public, healthcare professionals and legislators that anxiety disorders are real, serious and treatable.
Anxiety Disorder Association of America (ADAA)
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The goals of the association are to promote a new understanding of biofeedback and advance the methods used in this practice.
Association for Applied Psychology and Biofeedback
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The American Nurses Association is the only full-service professional organization representing the nation's 2.9 million registered nurses (RNs) through its 54 constituent member associations. The ANA advances the nursing profession by fostering high standards of nursing practice, promoting the economic and general welfare of nurses in the workplace, projecting a positive and realistic view of nursing, and by lobbying the Congress and regulatory agencies on health care issues affecting nurses and the public.
American Nurses Association
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The mission of the International Society of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses (ISPN) is to unite and strengthen the presence and the voice of specialty psychiatric-mental health nursing while influencing health care policy to promote equitable, evidence-based and effective treatment and care for individuals, families and communities.
Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nurses
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The mission of ADDA is to provide information, resources and networking to adults with AD/HD and to the professionals who work with them.
Attention Deficit Association of America
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ASA is the oldest and largest grassroots organization within the autism community. The Society and its chapters share a common mission of providing information and education, and supporting research and advocating for programs and services for the autism community.
Autism Society of America (ASA)
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The Bazelon Center serves as a legal advocate for people with mental disabilities. This website discussed the major legal issues concerning the mentally ill.
Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
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The Child Abuse Prevention Network is the internet nerve center for professionals in the field of child abuse and neglect. Child maltreatment, physical abuse, psychological maltreatment, neglect, sexual abuse, and emotional abuse and neglect are our key areas of concern.
Child Abuse Prevention Network
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The Child and Adolescent Bipolar Foundation (CABF) is a parent-led, not-for-profit, Web-based organization of families raising children diagnosed with, or at risk for pediatric bipolar disorder.
Child and Adolescent Bipolar Foundation (CABF)
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This organization staffs the National Child Abuse Hotline 1-800-4-A-CHILD with by professional crisis counselor, the Hotline is accessible throughout the U.S., its territories, and Canada.
Childhelp
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CHADD is the nation's leading non-profit organization serving individuals with AD/HD and their families. CHADD has over 16,000 members in 200 local chapters that offer support for individuals, parents, teachers, professionals, and others.
Children and Adolescents with Attention Deficit Disorder (CHADD)
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CDF provides a strong, effective voice for all the children of America who cannot vote, lobby, or speak for themselves. It pays particular attention to the needs of poor and minority children and those with disabilities
Children’s Defense Fund
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CWLA is an association of nearly 800 public and private nonprofit agencies that assist more than 3.5 million abused and neglected children and their families each year with a range of services.
Child Welfare League of America
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CA is an international self-help group that helps people who want to stop using cocaine and all other mind-altering substances. Individual groups vary, and some are more supportive of people who are dually diagnosed and need to take psychotropic medications.
Cocaine Anonymous (CA)
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Covenant House is the largest privately-funded childcare agency in the United States providing shelter and service to homeless and runaway youth.
Covenant House
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DBSA is the nation's leading patient-directed organization focusing on the most prevalent mental illnesses depression and bipolar disorder.
Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA)
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The Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health is a national family-run organization dedicated exclusively to helping children with mental health needs and their families achieve a better quality of life.
Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health
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Healthfinder® is an award-winning Federal Web site for consumers, developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services together with other Federal agencies.
Healthfinder
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A national non-profit voluntary health agency dedicated to finding a cure for Huntington's Disease.; it provides vital support, information and educational services to improve the lives of those affected by HD, offer resources and guidance for HD families through a national network of volunteer-based chapters and affiliates.
Huntington’s Disease Society of America
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The mission of this society is to unite and strengthen the presence and the voice of specialty psychiatric-mental health nursing while influencing health care policy to promote equitable, evidence-based and effective treatment and care for individuals, families and communities.
International Society for Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses
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MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from National Library of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations to create an outstanding collection of health-related information for laypeople.
MedlinePlus
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Mental Health America (formerly known as the National Mental Health Association) is the country's leading nonprofit dedicated to helping ALL people live mentally healthier lives. With our more than 320 affiliates nationwide, we represent a growing movement of Americans who promote mental wellness for the health and well-being of the nation – everyday and in times of crisis.
Mental Health America
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Narcotics Anonymous is an international, community-based association of recovering drug addicts with more than 33,500 weekly meetings in over 116 countries worldwide. Individual groups vary, and some are more supportive of people who are dually diagnosed and need to take psychotropic medications.
Narcotics Anonymous (NA)
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The Mental Health Research Association is the largest donor-supported organization in the world that supports research on brain and behavior disorders. The organization's mission is to raise and distribute funding for the most promising psychiatric disease research in order to develop new preventative measures, better diagnoses and improved treatments for these conditions.
National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia and Affective Disorders (NARSAD)
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NAMI is the nation's largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to improving the lives of persons living with serious mental illness and their families. Founded in 1979, NAMI has become the nation's voice on mental illness, a national organization including NAMI organizations in every state and in over 1100 local communities across the country.
National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI)
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This website provides resources to assist persons suffering from eating disorders
National Association of Anorexia and Associated Disorders
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NACNS exists to enhance and promote the unique, high value contribution of the clinical nurse specialist to the health and well-being of individuals, families, groups, and communities, and to promote and advance the practice of nursing.
National Association for Clinical Nurse Specialists
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This group serves as a resource center for child protection advocacy and activities.
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
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The Center conducts its therapeutic, research and training activities in various cities across the United States and Europe.
National Center for Stuttering
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SAMHSA's National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (NCADI) is the Nation's one-stop resource for information about substance abuse prevention and addiction treatment.
National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (NCADI)
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Formerly the National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information and the National Adoption Information Clearinghouse, Child Welfare Information Gateway provides access to information and resources to help protect children and strengthen families. It is a service of the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect
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Founded in 1944 by Mrs. Marty Mann, a pioneer in the alcoholism field, the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc. (NCADD) provides education, information, help, and hope to the public.
National Council on Alcohol and Drug Dependence (NCADD)
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Helps older people remain healthy and independent, find jobs, increase access to benefits programs, and discover meaningful ways to continue contributing to society.
National Council on Aging
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The Council is the national advocate for programs and services to assist problem gamblers and their families.
National Council on Problem Gambling
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The mission of the National Down Syndrome Society is to benefit people with Down syndrome and their families through national leadership in education, research and advocacy
National Down Syndrome Society
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This association works toward preventing eating disorders and provides treatment referrals for individuals suffering from anorexia, bulimia and binge eating disorder as well as individuals concerned with body image and weight issues.
National Eating Disorder Association (NEDA)
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NEA-BPD was founded in August 2001 by several family members, consumers, and one professional to increase understanding of Borderline Personality Disorder.
National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder
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NIMH is the lead Federal agency for research on mental and behavioral disorders.
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
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NIAA is a federal agency, a sector of the National Institutes of Health, whose vision is to support and promote the best science on alcohol and health for the benefit of all by increasing the understanding of normal and abnormal biological functions and behavior relating to alcohol use; improving the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of alcohol use disorders; and enhancing quality health care.
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
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NIDA supports most of the world's research on the health aspects of drug abuse and addiction. NIDA supported science addresses the most fundamental and essential questions about drug abuse, ranging from the molecule to managed care, and from DNA to community outreach research.
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
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The National Mental Health Information Center was developed for users of mental health services and their families, the general public, policy makers, providers, and the media.
National Mental Health Information Center
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OCF is an international not-for-profit organization composed of people with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and related disorders, their families, friends, professionals and other concerned individuals.
Obsessive Compulsive Foundation (OCF)
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PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.
PubMed
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The Society concerns itself with graduate education in psychiatric nursing and the evolving research base for psychiatric nursing practice. Now as a component of ISPN, the division's members are a vital mix of educators, researchers and advanced practice nurses; all dedicated to addressing the mental health needs of the consumers via the education and development of the advanced practice workforce, research, and innovative practice models.
Society for Education and Research in Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing (SERPN)
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SAMHSA has sharply focused its mission on building resilience and facilitating recovery for people with or at risk for mental or substance use disorders.
Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Admin. (SAMHSA)
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TSA is the only national voluntary non-profit membership organization dedicated to identifying the cause of, find the cure for and control the effects of Tourette's Syndrome.
Tourette’s Syndrome Association
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This organization works toward “eliminating barriers to the timely and effective treatment of severe mental illnesses” The website provides current legal issues that affect the mentally ill person and their families.
Treatment Advocacy Center
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