Publications and Articles

Below you will find a listing of publications and articles which we feel are important or especially helpful to anyone seeking information about psychiatry. Some of these may be fully reviewed in our Media Reviews section as noted.

1. BCMS Report — Spring 1998 HTML | PDF (Questions to Ask About Your Health Insurance), Baltimore City Medical Society Foundation
2. Choosing Your Health Care Plan HTML | PDF, Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland
3. Managed Care and Mental Health: Will your health plan meet your mental health needs? HTML | PDF, Maryland Psychiatric Society
4. Managed Care and Your Mental Health: What You Need to Know about Your Managed Mental Illness Insurance Benefits HTML | PDF, American Psychiatric Association

Note: Files marked with a are in Acrobat PDF format. Acrobat files may be viewed on any type of computer system with the free Acrobat Reader. Acrobat Reader is provided on most computer systems now or can be downloaded from Adobe.

Bazelon Center Publications

• Publications from the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Care

Government and Organization Reports on Mental Health

• Achieving the Promise: Transforming Mental Health Care in America HTML | PDF Downloads, President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health
• Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General, U.S. Public Health Service, 1999
  
• World Health Report 2001, World Health Organization
• "Real Men Get Real Depression," Mental Health Works, 3rd Quarter 2003, pp5-6 (PDF), National Partnership for Workplace Mental Health
  See also: Real Men Articles

Domestic Violence

• National Health Resource Center on Domestic Violence
• S.1483: Children Who Witness Domestic Violence Act (Introduced in the Senate)
• Children Who Witness Domestic Violence Act, Comments by Sen. Paul Wellstone
• Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan

9/11, National Disasters and Terrorism (including Biological and Chemical Terrorism)

• Family physicians are the first line of defense against bioterrorism , American Academy of Family Physicians
• BioTerrorism, American College of Physicans-American Society of Internal Medicine
• Coping With a National Tragedy, American Psychiatric Association
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies, Johns Hopkins University
• The Science and Technology of Terrorism, Scientific American
• Bioterrorism Bibliographies and Resources, Medical Library Association
• Health and Human Services Emergency Response
• American Red Cross
• AMA Disaster Preparedness and Medical Response, American Medical Assocation
• S.1729: Post Terrorism Mental Health Improvement Act

Terrorism, Violence and Children

• Helping Children Cope After a Terrorist Attack, American Psychiatric Association
• Helping Children Cope with a National Tragedy, American Psychiatric Association
• How to Discuss Terrorism with Young Children, Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families
• In the Aftermath of Terrorism, National Center for Children Exposed to Violence—Yale Child Study Center
• Psychoanalysts offer their expertise for helping children and adults deal with the trauma of the attack on America, American Psychoanalytic Association
• Advice on Communicating with Children about Disasters, American Academy of Pediatrics

Terrorism, Violence and the Elderly

• Emergency Message from CMS Concerning Payment of Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services