These sites have been found useful by people in this Unit. We have endeavoured to include comments where possible, rather than just provide a list.
The Academic Unit of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences accepts no responsibility for the content of external sites. If any of these links are broken then please contact us
Mental health
http://www.mentalhealthleeds.info/
Information for Mental Health. This is a directory of statutory and non-statutory services and groups relating to mental health in Leeds, with some national contacts as well. Has search facility.
http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/
Mental Health Foundation. Has lots of information about mental health, publications and resources around mental health.
Department of Health
http://www.doh.gov.uk/Department of Health website. Links to all documents, guidelines etc.
Statistics
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/National statistics. Great site with whole range of national statistics. I found it useful for getting up to date info. on local indices of deprivation and also for ethnic minority figures, but many other bits of info. as well.
National Institute for Clinical Excellence
http://www.nice.org.uk/
National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) homepage. You can get to all the clinical guidelines and see progress reports on those that are being developed. Also provides contact names for each guideline.
Online articles on psychiatry
http://www.mdlinx.com/psychlinx/index.cfm
Psychlinx. Part of Medlinx. Very useful site. You can sign up for newsletters in whatever specialty you like and then you get sent daily e-mails of new articles in that area. You can also use it to search for articles. I’ve found loads of relevant and brand new articles this way.
Information for authors in health sciences
http://www.mco.edu/lib/instr/libinsta.html
Instructions to authors in health sciences. Very useful site. Has huge numbers of health sciences journals and their instructions to authors all on one site.
Clinical mailing lists
http://www.healthcentre.org.uk/hc/pages/mlistclinical.htm
UK Clinical mailing lists. List of all e-mail lists that you can join depending on your clinical specialist. Useful if you want to know what’s going on clinically in your specialty or ask others for advice etc.
Q-methodology
http://www.q-sort.com
Good introductory site, especially for students. Resource links and on-line demonstration of Q-sorting. Access to Q methodology software.
http://www.qmethod.org
The official Q website of the International Society for the Scientific Study of Objectivity (ISSS). Managed by Steven Brown, the orthodox Q methodology 'guru'. Good resource for bibliography of methods papers, tutorials etc. Access to Q methodology software and the online discussion group.
http://www.rz.unibw-muenchen.de/~p41bsmk/qmethod/webq/index.html
Web-based application for Q sorting questionnaire items. By setting up a 'web q' participants can conduct the Q sort online and then e-mail the data (with comments) to the researcher.