I. Internet Resources for Psychology

This section is organized into four categories: General Information, Student Information and Career in Psychology, Specialized Areas in Psychology, and Mental Health and Mental Disorders. You can visit any of the following web sites by clicking its name or address. Since you will leave the current page after clicking, I strongly recommend you put a bookmark on this web page before you visit your first site so that you can find your way back here more easily . I am sure that you will be amazed by the wealth of psychology information on the internet. Your comments and suggestions for additional sites are most welcome! Please send them to Dr. Joanne Hsu.

A. General Information:

American Psychological Association (APA) Homepage
http://www.apa.org/

This is the web site for the most important psychological association in America. This excellent megasite contains a vast collection of information and resources in psychology. It describes the organization, public policy, ethical guidelines, and membership benefits of APA. It provides access to a huge library of web documents on psychology as well as educational and career information for students of psychology.

Society for the Teaching of Psychology
http://psy1.clarion.edu/mm/Division2/d2.html

This is the web site for the teachers of psychology from secondary school through graduate level. It provides information about the organization, teaching conferences, and links to other psychology resources for the teaching of psychology.

Office of Teaching Resources in Psychology (OTRP) Online
http://www.lemoyne.edu/OTRP/

This is an affiliated site with Society for the Teaching of Psychology. This site serves as the online distribution center for resources related to teaching and advising students. It has a collection of syllabi and the data-based index of the complete contents of the Society's journal "Teaching of Psychology". It also offers links to general and specific internet-based resources for teachers of psychology, including discussion groups, student advisement, and organizations.

American Psychological Society
http://www.psychologicalscience.org

This web site describes the organization and services of American Psychological Society. It has a listing of psychology department home pages, and internet resources for teaching, research (including research being conducted on the Internet), graduate study, job search support, etc.

Psych Web
http://www.psychwww.com/index.html

Developed by Dr. Russell A. Dewey, this is one of the best web sites for psychology, superbly informative and organized! It has lots of useful information and links for students and teachers of psychology. Some of the specific sections of the site will be referred to in the following sections.

Houston Community College Homepage
http://www.hccs.edu/

This HCC homepage has a list of phone directory, information on library and human resources, and links to five colleges and other popular Houston internet sites.

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B. Student Information and Career in Psychology:

APA Student information
http://www.apa.org/students/

This Student Info page of APA site provides information on various levels of the study of psychology, graduate school information, and details about careers in psychology.

Psych Web - Tip Sheets for Psychology Majors
http://www.psychwww.com/tipsheet/index.html

A list of "tip sheets" for psychology majors is provided in this page of the Psych Web site. It has valuable information on how to write a psychology research paper and laboratory report in APA format, how to get good letters of recommendation, and how to plan for graduate school. It provides a listing of U. S. Psychology PhD Programs, a description of Bachelor's level jobs in psychology, and a list of suggested courses to acquire skills employers want. It also offers links to internet resources in career issues and job listings.

Marky Lloyd's Career in Psychology Page
http://www.psychwww.com/careers/index.htm
(This site can also be accessed from Psych Web homepage:
http://www.psychwww.com/index.html)

Dr. Marky Lloyd at Georgia Southern University developed this web site to help undergraduate students in their career preparation in psychology. The information is presented in eight sections: (1) making the most of your undergraduate years, (2) exploring career-related abilities, interests, skills, and values, (3) entry-level jobs for psychology, (4) Master's- and Doctoral-level careers in psychology and related areas, (5) graduate school options for psychology majors, (6) graduate school: the application process, (7) job searching resources, and (8) selected web sites containing career and graduate school information of interest to psychology majors.

Psych Web - Psychology Departments on the Web
http://www.psychwww.com/resource/deptlist.htm

This webpage contains links to psychology department home pages at colleges and universities around the world.

Library Research in Psychology
http://www.apa.org/science/lib.html

This APA page provides guidance on how to conduct library research in psychology.

Mind Tools -
http://www.psychwww.com/mtsite

This web site provides excellent information on techniques to help you think excellently, with tips on enhancing memory, problem solving, creativity, and information processing skills. It also outline skills for high performance living, such as stress management and time management skills.

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C. Specialized Areas in Psychology - Psychology Resources by Subject:

The first three web sites provide megalists of internet resources on specialized areas in psychology. You can access scholarly psychology information on a particular subject such as personality theory and developmental psychology from these megasites.

APA PsychNET
http://www.apa.org/psychnet/

In this page of the APA site, you can access an extensive collection of web documents on psychology from the categories (or directorates) of education, practice, public interest, and science. It also offers online edition of APA Monitor, the association newspaper, and PsycINFO, an electronic database of abstracts on over 1,350 scholarly journals.

Psych Web - Scholarly Psychology Resources on the Web
http://www.psychwww.com/resource/bytopic.htm

This page in the Psych Web site provides links to sites which offer scholarly information about a subtopic within the field of psychology. The information is categorized into different specialized areas of psychology such as developmental psychology, neuroscience, personality, memory, motivation and emotion, statistics and testing, social psychology, sexuality, therapy and counseling, etc.

Lefton's Psychology HotLinks
http://www.abacon.com/lefton/links.html

This page provides links to sites which offer information in the areas of neuropsychology, sensation and perception, consciousness, learning, cognitive psychology, intelligence, motivation and emotion, development, personality, treatment, and social psychology.

Armin Guenther's Links to Psychological Journals
http://www.psychwww.com/resource/journals.htm

This web site has links to 800+ psychology related journals on the web.

Social Psychology Network
http://www.wesleyan.edu/spn/

This site offers comprehensive source of social psychology information on the Internet. It has listings of social psychology PhD programs, research groups, and journals. It offers links to websites that relate to specific social psychology topics as well as home pages of individual social psychologists.

Freud Net: The A. A. Brill Library of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute
http://plaza.interport.net/nypsan/index.html

This site provides news in psychoanalysis and links to internet resources on Sigmund Freud. It describes services and activities of Brill Library and New York Psychoanalytic Institute and Society.

The Whole Brain Atlas at Harvard University
http://www.med.harvard.edu:80/AANLIB/home.html

This site offers information on brain imaging techniques used in the medical field. It provides images for normal brain and diseased brain (due to stroke, tumor, Alzheimer's Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, etc.).

Mind Tools
http://www.psychwww.com/mtsite

This is a good site on applied psychology. As described earlier in the student information section, it presents techniques to help you think excellently and skills to help you lead a high performance life. In addition, it discusses sports psychology, management psychology and interpersonal psychology.

Self Discovery Workshop - IQ test
http://www.iqtest.com/

Want to take an IQ test? This site offers you one.

Jouni Smed's States of Consciousness
http://www.psychwww.com/asc/asc.html

If you are interested in hypnosis, out-of-body experience, and lucid dreams, this is the site for you!

The Psychology of Cyberspace
http://www.rider.edu/users/suler/psycyber/psycyber.html

This interesting site demonstrates how new psychological concepts and research evolve. Dr. John Suler at Rider University set up this site to explore the psychological dimensions of the environment created by computers and online networks and how people behave and interact in this environment ("cyberspace"). A general conceptual framework for the psychology of cyberspace is outlined and it includes many interesting issues such as personality types in cyberspace, identity management in cyberspace, cyberspace relationships and group dynamics (online groups, chat rooms, and communities) in cyberspace, etc.

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D. Mental Health and Mental Disorders:

The following are some of the most informative megasites which provides online resources on description, diagnosis and treatment of various mental disorders. You can access information on a specific disorder from most of these megasites.

Internet Mental Health
http://www.mentalhealth.com/

Developed by Canadian psychiatrist Dr. Phillip Long, this is one of the very best mental health sites on the Internet. It contains an encyclopedia of mental health information "on site". It has detailed information on 52 most common mental disorders and 67 most common psychiatric drugs. It provides online diagnosis of Anxiety Disorders, Mood Disorders, Eating Disorders, Personality Disorders, Substance Use Disorders. News, magazine articles, stories of recovery, and booklets are also accessible. Mental health consumers (patients) and their families will benefit greatly by visiting this site.

Mental Health Net
http://www.cmhc.com/

Mental Health Net is the largest, most comprehensive guide for mental health online. It offers links to over 6,300 individual resources which cover information on disorders and professional resources in psychology, psychiatry, and social work, journals, and self-help magazines.

National Mental Health Services' Knowledge Exchange Network (KEN)
http://www.mentalhealth.org/index.htm

In this site, Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) provides information about mental health via toll-free telephone services, and electronic bulletin board, and publications. Its toll-free telephone service has staff trained to listen and respond to questions from the public and professionals. It offers free publications on subjects such as children, adolescents, and their families; and other mental health issues. There are links and referrals to consumer and family advocacy groups, federal and state agencies, technical assistance centers, etc.

Dr. Bob's Mental Health Links
http://uhs.bsd.uchicago.edu/dr-bob/mental.html

Developed by psychiatrist Dr. Bob Hsiung, this page contains extensive listing of links to mental health resources. In addition to resources on mental disorders, there are extensive links to organizations, psychiatry departments, university student counseling centers, publications, hardware and software, and more.

APA Help Center and Public Information
http://helping.apa.org/

APA Help Center offers information on dealing with modern life problems in work, home, and mind and body. It provides questions and answers about work and family issues, such as working moms, downsizing survival, stress in the workplace, single parenting, tasks for a good marriage, therapy and cancer, etc.

Dr. Michael Fenichel's Current Topics in Psychology
http://www.tiac.net/biz/drmike/Current.shtml

This site presents a large collection of useful articles on various mental health and psychological topics, assembled by clinical Psychologist Dr. Michael Fenichel. It also offers links to other mental health sites.

Behavior Online
http://www.behavior.net/

This web site is billed as the gathering place for mental health and applied behavioral science professionals. It offers Behavior Online Forum where you can participate in discussions or meet in private rooms for chats with experts in such fields as Classical Alderian Psychotherapy, Gestalt Therapy, Cognitive Therapy, Behavior Assessment, and more. There are links to the Gestalt Journal, Cape Cod Institute, and other organizations and resources.

Dr. John Grohol's Mental Health Page
http://www.psychcentral.com/

This web site offers free, live interactive chats every week with Dr. John Grohol. You can find answers to some common questions related to mental health and disorders in the section of frequently asked questions (FAQs). There are links to newsgroups, suicide helpline, and other mental health web sites.