A Collection of Psychology-related Web Sites

    The two major national organizations for psychologists in America are the American Psychological Association (APA) and the American Psychological Society (APS). The former (APA) has become, over time, increasingly focused on professional/guild issues of interest to practicing psychologists, and the APS was founded in order to have an organization that took the advancement of the discipline as a whole as its central concern (more of a focus on research, and the "giving away" of the knowledge we've amassed). In the items below the abbreviations APA and APS are used for the two organizations.

American Psychological Society's (APS) Home Page
    This site includes a listing of the home pages of psychology departments across the country (good way to check out a graduate program), employment listing (see what the job market looks like - mostly for doctoral degrees), teaching resources, research resources, and a complete list of Organizations/Societies that are concerned with psychology-related matters.

American Psychological Association's (APA's) Home Page
    This is the main page for the American Psychological Association, the older of the two major organizations of American psychologists. APA publishes many of the major journals in psychology. A high proportion of the members are practicing (clinical/counseling) psychologists and it is very active in lobbying for professional interests. Their pages contain information on practice and training of psychologists.

PsychWeb
    Provides direct links to most Psychology Departments at colleges and universities around the world, as well as information about careers in psychology, graduate school, tip sheets for psychology majors, preparing for the GREs, and a set of links to places with "APA style" resources (note that there is a link to A.U.'s own APA style sheet on the Psych Div.'s home page).

Psychology Links from Psi Chi
    This will take you to a subpage of the site maintained by the national office of Psi Chi; that supbpage provides links to many psychology-related organizations and sites, site links and other useful information.

Psychology Careers
    This page on the APA website provides information of Careers in Psychology for Bachelor's, Master's and Doctoral graduates. The item above for some Psychology Links from Psi Chi also has very useful information about careers.

Applying to Graduate School
    Information of use to you as you plan and carry out the process of applying to graduate school, both in psychology and other related areas.

PsychInfo on SilverPlatter
    Provides the means to electronically search the abstracts of articles published in over 1,400 psychology-related journals, as well as books and book chapters in psychology. Once you are on Herrick library's Research Databases web site, click on PsycInfo. Search can be conducted by topic, by author, or title.

Internet Mental Health
    Prepared by Canadian Psychiatrist Dr. Phillip Long. Purpose: "free encyclopedia of mental health infomation" intended for mental health professionals, students, patients, and members of support groups. Provides information on diagnoses, medications, and publications(magazines).

Mental Health Directory
    Directory of Web pages for mental health organizations.

National Center for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
    Hosted by Darmouth U., this site describes materials available in the PTSD Resource Center located in White River Junction, VT, and in the consortium of centers throughout the U.S.  Information for various categories of readers (e.g., students, trauma victims), and also provides links to other PTSD-related web sites.

Current Topics in Psychology
    Another "mental health" site. Michael Fenichel (clinical psychologist in NYC and president-elect of the International Society of Mental Health Online) has assembled links to topics such as mood and eating disorders, teen suicide, addictions (including Internet addiction)

Society of Human Resource Management
     Web site for one of the major organizations for human resources & personnel.

Human Resources Guides
     Web site provides thousands of links to websites and software resources of interest to human resource professionals and students.

Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology
     Web site for Division 14 of the APA -- it contains a set of web sites for I/O psychology (Gateways to University's I/O programs, and to other I/O-realted pages on the WWW) plus a page of Internet Resources.

Nat'l. Institute of Mental Health
    This page, in addition to information on the National Institute of Mental Health (including directories for programs and personnel), provides information on a variety of topics in mental health and mental disorders (see under "public information" for non-technical information).

Cognitive and language development site at U.Calgary
    Includes links to many other sites for cognitive- and language-related development.

Psych Central
     This site is Dr. John Grohol's Web Page -- provides a list of other sites that offer general and professional resources for mental health workers.

Forensic Psychology and Psychiatry
    This is the site of David Willshire; it provides links to many kinds of resources germane to forensic psychology.

American Art Therapy Association
    This site provides information on Educational Standards for Art Therapists and other information concerning this career.

A ranking of doctoral programs in psychology.
    This is a subpage of a site for a Social Psychology Network. Here you will find a site that contains a "ranking" of many major psychology departments offering the doctoral degree. NOTE: while this is a good way to get some "rough information" about the collective perception of the strength of a department, there is serious question about the methodology that produced this exact ranking. Most importantly, while the site shows an evaluation of the department as a whole it does NOT show the relative strengths of particular subareas at that institution. A department might be strong overall and have little of nothing to offer in a particular area; or, conversely, be very good in a specific subfield of psychology without having strength across the breadth of psychology.

Sport Psychology Pages
    This site provides information on several aspects of Sports Psychology and information concerning this possible career.  Additional sports psychology information is available from U. North Texas and the U. of Colorado.

Thanatolinks
    This is a listing of Web Sites concerned with issues in death & dying that is under the direction of Dr. Gail Walker. It includes material from her own experience of facing life-threatening cancer.
 

     Some Psychology-related Web Search machines:

Psych Crawler
Neurosciences on the Internet

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