Tourette's Disorder American and European descriptions with links to diagnosis and treatment information, booklets, research, and magazine articles. From Internet Mental Health.
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Substance Abuse And Mental Health Services Administration Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is the US Federal agency charged with improving the quality and availability of prevention, treatment, and rehabilitative services in order to reduce illness, death, disability, and cost to society resulting from substance abuse and mental illnesses. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is a branch of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
Center For Mental Health Services The Center for Mental Health Services is a US government-supported group. It describes its role as:
National Institute Of Mental Health The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is one of 27 components of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the United States federal government's principal biomedical and behavioral research agency. NIH is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The mission of NIMH is to reduce the burden of mental illness and behavioral disorders through research on mind, brain and behavior.
Mental Health Mental health, mental hygiene and mental wellness are all terms used to describe the absence of mental illness. By this definition, mental status has two possibilities: either health or illness.
Mental Health Law Mental health law is that area of law that deals with mental conditions. This includes areas in both common law and statute law.
Common law issues include such concepts as mens rea, insanity defences, sane and insane automatism amongst others.
International Society For Mental Health Online The International Society for Mental Health Online (ISMHO) is a nonprofit organization formed in 1997 to promote the understanding, use and development of online communication, information and technology for the international mental health community. ISMHO conducts all of its official business via the Internet, as its board members (and membership in general) reflects a diverse, international makeup. Most of the active discussion of the organization is conducted on the Members-only mailing list. Interested participants must be members in order to subscribe to this list or access it extensive, multi-year archive. Virtually any topic having to do with mental health online has been discussed at some point on the list, including online therapy, the nature of online communication and online behaviors, Internet addiction, and more. The list archive serves as a valuable resource for researchers, clinicians, and ordinary people interested in the topic of online mental health.
Centre For Addiction And Mental Health The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is a consortium of mental health clinics at several sites in Toronto, Ontario. Its name in French is Centre de Toxicomanie et de Santé Mentale.
CAMH was formed in 1998 as a result of the merger of the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, the Addiction Research Foundation, the Donwood Institute and Queen Street Mental Health Centre.
New Freedom Commission On Mental Health President George W. Bush established the controversial President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health in April, 2002, to conduct a comprehensive study of the United States mental health service delivery system and make recommendations based on their findings.
Institute Of Mental Health The Institute of Mental Health / Woodbridge Hospital (IMH / WH) is the main hospital in Singapore specialising in the treatment of patients with mental illnesses. Presently located in a sprawling 450,000 square metre site in Hougang, the 2,425 bed hospital continued on the tradition of Woodbridge Hospital by retaining its official name.
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Center For Mental Health Service The Center for Mental Health Service (CMHS), as part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, pursues its mission by helping States improve and increase the quality and range of their treatment, rehabilitation, and support services for people with mental illness, their families, and communities. Further, it encourages a range of programs-such as systems of care-to respond to the increasing number of mental, emotional, and behavioral problems among America's children. CMHS supports outreach and case management programs for the thousands of Americans with severe mental illness who are homeless, and supports the development and adoption of "models" for improving services.