Parental Mental Health and Child Welfare Network - Links

Links to mental health research organisations

• Action 16 - the 2004 Social Exclusion Report identified parents and children as in need of particular support.  The Action 16 group works to implement these findings.
• Centre for Evidence Based Mental Health - Promoting and supporting the teaching and practice of evidence based mental healthcare.
• Centre for Evidence Based Social Services - The Be Evidence Based website is designed to provide easy access to key findings from critically appraised research in the field of Social Care.
• Department for Education and Skills
• Information for Practice - This website provides access to professionally relevant information on the web.
• Institute of Psychiatry - The Institute of Psychiatry provides postgraduate education and carries out research in psychiatry, psychology and allied disciplines, including basic and clinical neurosciences.
• Joseph Rowntree Foundation - The Joseph Rowntree Foundation is one of the largest social policy research and development charities in the UK.
• Kings College - King's College London enjoys a world wide reputation for teaching and research. It houses the Institute of Psychiatry.
• London Mental Health Research and Development virtual institute - This website facilitates collaborative mental health research and development in London.
• Mental Health Care - This is a site for people looking for information about mental illness and the latest research from the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust and the Institute of Psychiatry. The site currently deals with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and is particularly suited to the carers, friends and family of anyone with a mental illness.
• Mental Health Foundation - This website features news and events on mental health issues, as well as information on problems, treatments and strategies for living with mental distress.
• Mental Health Research Network - The Mental Health Research Network is a programme of the National Institute for Mental Health for England to provide an opportunity to widen participation within mental health research and help reshape mental health practice with evidence.
• National Electronic Library for Mental Health - This website aims to provide access to the best available evidence to answer mental health questions.
• Online Dictionary of Mental Health - This is a global information resource and research tool covering all of the disciplines contributing to understandings of mental health. Features many links to other sites.
• Policy Research Bureau - The Policy Research Bureau is an independent social policy research centre based in London, specialising in the family and young people.
• Research in Practice - Research in P ractice is the largest childcare research implementation project in the country.
• Royal College of Psychiatrists - The Royal College of Psychiatrists is the professional and educational body for psychiatrists in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.
• Social Care Online - the UK's most extensive database of social care information, with everything from research briefings, to reports, government documents, journal articles, and websites. Managed by SCIE, the site is updated daily by experienced information managers.
• Social Care Institute for Excellence - SCIE promotes good practice in social care by reviewing knowledge to find out what works best. SCIE shares this knowledge with all kinds of people involved in social care.
• Social Perspectives Network - The Social Perspectives Network looks at how social factors may both contribute to people becoming distressed, and play a crucial part in promoting people's recovery.
• Royal College of Psychiatrists - The Royal College of Psychiatrists provides an online mental health resource offering information on training, publications and other resources.
• Tavistock Institute - The Tavistock Institute performs research, consultancy, evaluation, and professional development work to support change and learning in inter-organisational relations, the emergence of the knowledge society, and problems of organisation, particularly in the delivery of public policy.
• University College Worcester - The Child, Adolescent and Family Mental Health Centre is based in University College Worcester.
• Young Carers Research Group - The Young Carers Research Group exists to conduct high quality research, evaluation and consultancy on all matters relating to young carers, to advance knowledge and inform the development of policy and good practice.

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