Click on the following links. Please note these will open in a new window.

Video Links

1. Mental Illness

This 27-minute video discusses the prevalence, symptoms, and treatment of mental illness.

Learning Objectives 13-1, 13-3, 13-4, 13-5, 13-6, 13-8, 13-9, & 13-10

2. I’ve Got Issues:  Coping with Mental Illness

This 28-minute video provides information from both a survivor of depression and mental health experts on when and where to seek help, and how to combat the stigmatization that comes with struggling with mental illness.

Learning Objectives 13-4, 13-6, & 13-8

3. Make it Okay – Reframing Mental Illness

This 27-minute video discusses strategies for destigmatizing mental illness.

 

Audio Links

1. At Golden Gate Bridge, Texting Offers New Lifeline to Prevent Suicides: 

This four-minute podcast is quite moving.  It discusses how texting is being used as a means to suicide prevention.

Learning Objective 13-8

2. How We Got Here:  Treating Addiction in 28 Days

This four-minute podcast explains the origin of the 28 day rehab model and why it is not applicable to today’s drug abuse epidemic. 

Learning Objective 13-9

3. Doll Therapy May Help People with Dementia

This three-minute podcasts discusses the benefits of doll therapy, including the reduced need for psychotropic medications.

Learning Objectives 13-9 and 13-10

 

Websites

1. Timeline: Treatments for Mental Illness

This webpage has a timeline for the treatment of mental illness from 400 BC to modern times.

Learning Objectives 13-2, 13-7, 13-9, & 13-10

2. National Institute of Mental Health

This website is devoted to educating the public about mental illness and the treatment of mental illness.

Learning Objectives 13-1 through 13-10.

3. The Biopsychosocial Approach

This website provides a brief explanation of the biopsychosocial approach.

Learning Objective 13-3