SHIRP: Continuing Education: Mental Health

Mental Health

AnxietyBC Resources for Educators (BC)

APA Online Assessment Measures Patient assessment measures developed to be administered at the initial patient interview and to monitor treatment progress.

Canadian Psychology Association - Evidence Based Practice of Psychological Treatments (2012) - a report issued by the CPA intended to support and guide practice on evidence-based practice of psychological treatment.

Mental Health and Wellbeing Guidance from the National Organization (UK)

Psychiatry Guidelines from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (US)

American Psychiatric Association Clinical Practice Guidelines

Below are some of the databases available through SHIRP. To access all of our databases, click on SHIRP Databases A-Z

CINAHL Plus with Full Text This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive database providing full text and indexing for nursing and allied health journals. Covers a wide range of topics including nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines
MEDLINE This link opens in a new window
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A major bibliographic database for clinical medicine, as well as: veterinary medicine, nursing, allied health, dentistry, and pre-clinical sciences.
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
A database providing abstracts and citations to the scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences.

SHIRP has over 300 e-books. Use the search box at the top right of the page to search for a specific title. TIP: Use double quotation marks (" ") around two or more words from the title. e.g. "Harrison's Principles"

CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment: Psychiatry 3rd Ed 2019	DSM-5 ® Handbook of Differential Diagnosis
DSM-5 ® (Manual) 5th Ed 2013	Kaplan and Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry 9th Ed 2009
DSM-5 ® Clinical Cases	Lippincott's Manual of Psychiatric Nursing Care Plans 9th Ed 2013

SHIRP has over 1,600 journals available in full text. Use the search box at the top right of the page to search for a specific title. TIP: Use double quotation marks (" ") around two or more words from the title. e.g. "adolescent mental health"

Am erican Journal of Psychiatry	Journal of Affective Disorders
British Journal of Psychiatry	Journal of Development and Behavioural Pediatrics
JAMA Psychiatry	Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Summarized information on conditions, diseases, topics, interventions is readily available to help you save time when looking for answers to clinical questions.

2 Minute Medicine ® Reviews in Psychiatry 2 Minute Medicine® (abbreviated 2MM) is an expert physician publishing group founded out of Harvard Medical School that provides concise, curated, and authoritative medical reports of breaking medical literature as well as seminal studies in medicine.
2 Minute Medicine ® (all reviews)

ACP Journal Club Reviews in Dementia / Tobacco, Alcohol and Other Substance Abuse
ACP Journal Club (all reviews)

CADTH Reports - provides objective evidence to help make informed decisions about the optimal use of health technologies, including drugs, diagnostic tests, medical, dental, and surgical devices and procedures

Mental Health / Addiction / Anxiety Disorders / Bipolar Disorder / Dementia / Depression / Learning Disorders / Schizophrenia / Suicide

Cochrane Reviews in Mental Health
Cochrane Library (all reviews)

Evidence Based Mental Health (BMJ)

Portico - Canada's Mental Health and Addiction Network - a platform containing tools and resources that can be used in everyday practice. Contains information from a variety of clinical mental health facilities and networks and includes disorders quick reference, treatment methods and approaches to care.

Rural Dementia Action Research

Of pressing need in health care, rural dementia care demands the attention of health care providers, researchers, and policy makers. The RaDAR Team at the University of Saskatchewan seeks to improve the delivery of rural dementia care, from early detection and diagnosis to end-of-life care.

Find out more at the Rural Dementia Action Research website.

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