What type of information can I find on websites?
Websites can be published by individuals, companies, or organizations and usually provide specific information about topics. Websites can help you find current information and websites are easily changed and updated. Be careful when reviewing information from websites. Often times, information on websites are not held to scholarly or journalistic standards.
Professional Associations
- American Psychiatric AssociationThe leading professional organization for psychiatrists
- American Psychological AssociationHomepage of the American Psychological Association.
Psychology Websites
- National Institute of Mental HealthNIMH is a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the principal biomedical and behavioral research agency of the US government. Site disseminates a great deal of information on various of aspects of this governmental agency, as well as provides authoritative information on many facets of mental health research
- National Mental Health Information CenterLink to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), this site offers a comprehensive collection of secure and rapid links to various topic-related resources, including funding sources
- Texas Department of State Health ServicesA website devoted to improving community health in Texas
- VassarStats: Statistical Computation Web SiteA psychology professor at Vassar College is responsible for providing this tool for performing statistical computation. Included in this site are sections on probabilities, distributions, frequency data, ordinal data, correlation and regression, and more. There are utilities and various clinical research calculators as well
- The Personality ProjectA scholarly site for those interested in personality theory and research. There are links to recommended readings, academic sites, organizations, and selected non-academic sites
- Psych CentralFounded in 1995, this index devoted to online mental health resources is one of the oldest Web mental health sites
- PsychscholarExcellent, no nonsense gateway will take those interested in a psychology to a wide variety of Internet resources
- Social Psychology NetworkOutstanding portal to the world of social psychology on the Internet. Hosted by Wesleyan University, the site features links to a wide variety of resources of use to both professionals and students