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CriticalThinkRx, funded at Florida International University, seeks to educate professionals in child welfare and mental health, but especially those with non-medical training. The curriculum developed for this project is available on their website, free of charge, for anyone who is interested.
Consumer Reports: Best Buy Drugs. Best Buy Drugs is a public education project. Focuses on drug information and discussing medication issues with the prescribing physician. Medications are listed both by condition and drug name.
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
The latest information on children and Psychiatric Medication
The Center for the Advancement of Children’s Mental Health
Links for information on various medication and therapeutic treatment options.
Child and Adolescent Services Research Center
CASRC focuses on mental health care issues for vulnerable children, including children in public service sectors. In addition, CASRC specializes in longitudinal studies of children at risk for development of mental disorders and other problems in psychosocial functioning, and the effectiveness of early preventive interventions.
National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) - Child and Adolescent Network
National Institute of Mental Health
Information on specific mental disorders, diagnosis and treatment, "Mental Illness in America", Consensus Conference proceedings, NIMH long range plans & research reports, publications order forms, quicktime videos, information on the DEPRESSION Awareness, Recognition, & Treatment (D/ART) and the Anxiety Disorders Education Program, and other resources.
Physicians Desk Reference
On this site you can enter the name of a drug and find information written in lay terms based on the FDA-approved drug information found in the PDR. It gives plain-English explanations for the safe and effective use of prescription and nonprescription drugs—explanations that are consistent with the information professionals are referencing in the PDR.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Information on particular drugs and their side effects.
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