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Mental Health

Mental health is a large-scale, general category with a great deal of subcategories found under it, especially in the Disorders section. If you are looking for resources or information on a specific mental health concern or issue, start there. Therapy, psychotherapy, and counseling services, organizations, and related information are under Counseling Services. Sites submitted to this area must be in English.

Please note:

Do not submit a site to the general mental health category, as it will likely delay getting your site listed in the directory.

Instead, find the appropriate subcategory under mental health and submit the site there. Repetitive site submissions or sites already appropriately indexed elsewhere in the directory will not be accepted.

Do not submit your site to this category!

Before submitting your site, please review the Guidelines for Submitting a Site.

Child and Adolescent

The Child and Adolescent Mental Health category lists sites focusing on maintaining good emotional health as well on the cause, incidence, diagnosis and treatment of mental illness and emotional disorders in children and adolescents.

Few sites will be listed here. Find the appropriate subcategory for your site.

Counseling Services

Counseling, psychotherapy, and treatment services available to help people overcome mental health problems and difficulties. Includes national services and general informational or referral services.

Counseling, psychotherapy, and treatment services available to help people overcome mental health problems and difficulties. Includes national services and general informational or referral services.

Sites in languages other than English must be suggested to the appropriate World category.

Directories

A directory is a guide or list of resources, not an individual business. The directories in this category are mainly resources for finding mental health information.

Disorders

This category is concerned with disorders, conditions and syndromes in the mental health area listed by type and with mental health support groups.

This area contains many sub-categories. Please be sure to review them first before submitting.

Sites in languages other than English must be submitted to the appropriate World categories from the Open Directory Main page.

Grief, Loss and Bereavement

Grief is the pain, misery, anguish, suffering, or distress caused by bereavement.

Loss occurs as a result of losing a possession, a person, or can be caused by deprivation or a change of circumstance. Losses can occur through the death of a child, a spouse, a friend, hero, leader, or relative.

Bereavement is caused by loss, especially the loss of a loved one. A loss of position in the community, dignity, security, or reputation can result in feelings of bereavement.

Please submit sites to this category which would be of benefit to someone who is grieving or coping with loss. This would include lists of resources.

Personal experiences dealing with grief should be submitted to the Personal Pages subcategory.

Please submit counseling services and psychotherapy sites to https://curlie.org/Health/Mental_Health/Counseling_Services/

Please submit professional resource sites to https://curlie.org/Health/Mental_Health/Professional_Resources/ or one of its subcategories. This would include grief counselor training sites.

News

For sites publishing regularly-updated news headlines in mental health.

Organizations

Professional associations and membership organizations for mental health practitioners. Sub-categories exist for associations related to consumers, and specific afflictions.

If your association serves a specific location/population (e.g. State, county, or city organization), please submit to the specific location in the Regional categories.

Policy and Advocacy

Welcome to Health: Mental Health: Policy and Advocacy This category is intended for sites that focus on mental health policy and advocacy. The category includes a sampling of sites that represent a broad range of available resources.

Professional Resources

This area is geared for mental health professionals, including counselors, social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, family therapists, and persons employed in mental health settings. Sites in languages other than English must be submitted to the appropriate World categories from the Open Directory Main page.

Psychological Abuse

Psychological abuse refers to the humiliation or intimidation of another person, but is also used to refer to the long-term effects of emotional shock.

Submit (English language) sites about psychological abuse to this area.

Self-Help

Resources for self improvement in Relationships, Attitudes and Self Success.

Sits listed here will provide free information to help people with motivation.

Sites offering products or services will NOT be listed here, and should be sent to Health/Mental_Health/Self-Help/Products_and_Services/ . There are also different specific categories for motivational speakers and inspirational quotations.

Stress

Stress is a psychological response to stimuli and events that can overwhelm the natural defensive mechanisms that control behavior and develop into physiological problems.

NB Sites selling books, tapes, programs etc do NOT belong here, and are listed in the correct part of Shopping/Health.
Sites listed here will offer non-commercial information about stress in general.

Note that sites about acute stress and post-traumatic stress disorder have their own categories elsewhere, and non-commercial self-help sites belong in Health/Mental_Health/Disorders/Anxiety/Self-Help.

Weblogs

Weblogs related to the broad topic area of mental health or mental health advocacy.

They must be personal and non-commercial weblogs with a specific focus on this topic.

Only active, regularly-updated blogs will be listed here. Blogs with established track records are preferred.

Sites listed here must be in the English language, and they must be personal and non-commercial weblogs on the specific subject of mental health.