Joining the parade of specialized Web guides, this handbook for mental health professionals is keyed to DSM-IV classifications, providing annotated listings to Web sites on an array of clinical conditions as well as standard, complementary, and alter native therapies. It also covers mental health metasites that either serve as portals to other mental health-related sites or list conferences, journals, libraries, and the like; non-medical sites of interest, such as those dedicated to legal issues and associations; medical, pharmacological, and neuroscience sites; and mailing lists, e-groups, and Usenet resources. Resources were chosen to be useful to therapists as well as their patients. The guide has no subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
The Therapist's Internet Handbook includes capsule summaries of more than 1300 sites, keyed to DSM-IV categories. Alongside the capsule summary, the authors include commentary, list its features, identify the links provided on that site, and qualify it in terms of usefulness. Unique to this book are completely new sections on criminal justice sites, general medical sites, and a series of helpful hints for successful Web research. Included with the book is a handy CD-ROM, with active links to all the sites discussed.
As the Internet continues to grow, professionals who utilize it will benefit from its speed and inexhaustible scope. For savvy mental health professionals, this book will become an essential, well-thumbed reference.
Since the publication of the DSM-IV Internet Companion in 1998, theInternet has grown and changed. Robert F. Stamps and his new coauthor,Peter M. Barach, have completely revised and updated the originaldirectory of Web sites for mental health professionals.
