The Therapist's Internet Handbook:
More than 1300 Web Sites and Resources for Mental Health Professionals

Robert F. Stamps and Peter M. Barach

Overview – Table of Contents

Since the publication of the DSM-IV Internet Companion in 1998, the Internet has grown and changed. Robert F. Stamps and his new coauthor, Peter M. Barach, have completely revised and updated the original directory of Web sites for mental health professionals.

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.

Praise for The Therapist's Internet Handbook:

"The Therapist's Internet Handbook is now available with over 1300 Web Sites and Resources for Mental Health Professionals. The book is nicely cross-referenced by disorders and special subject areas, such as, psychopharmacology and other treatment approaches. The authors are Robert F. Stamps and Peter M. Barach. It is published by W.W. Norton for $32.00 US and $47.00 Can. It is a handy reference that I keep close to my computer with the CD that comes with the book."
--APA newsletter, June 19, 2001

"At last! Here is a full service resource for mental health professionals who search the Internet to keep current in their practices. It covers mental conditions, links to mental health metasites, data bases, libraries, mental health law, criminal justice and more. Therapist's Internet Handbook is as important to the web user as the telephone directory is for their telephone."
-- Jack G. Wiggins, Ph.D., Psy.D.
A past President of the American Psychological Association

"This is truly a book for the twenty-first century. The authors have created an extraordinary reference book which every mental health professional, regardless of their relative ability on the computer, should have as an essential guide to rapidly locate and utilize the extraordinary, exponentially infinite knowledge and materials presented on the Internet about mental illnesses and associated conditions. Just thumbing through the existing Web sites at the turn of the century, it's amazing, and each of these has linkages to other sites so that utilization of the Internet should become an everyday exercise for mental health professionals who want to be on the cutting edge."
-- Paul Jay Fink, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry, Temple University School of Medicine
Past President, American Psychiatric Association

About the Authors

Robert F. Stamps is an addictions counselor and social science journalist who has written about mental health, substance abuse, and social policy for newspapers and magazines nationwide since l975.
Peter M. Barach, Ph.D., is Senior Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University Medical School, a past president of the International Society for the Study of Dissociation, and is in private practice in Cleveland, Ohio.

ISBN: 0-393-70342-8
June, 2001
Paperback, 368 pages