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Training Resources
American Psychological Association Specialty Council for Psychological Training in Assessment and Treatment of Persons with Serious Mental Illness and Severe Emotional Disturbance (SMI/SED) www.psychtrainingsmi.com (this website contains Training Guidelines, a Competency Evaluation Instrument, Research and Practice information, a listing of Training Programs and the Petition for Recognition of Post-doctoral Specialty in SMI/SED).
Professional Organization Resources
Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies
Boston University Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation
APA Division 12, Society of Clinical Psychology, list of evidence-based treatments for schizophrenia
e-mental health (this website has very good sections on schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, including links to a number of good journals)
National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH) Schizophrenia
Psychiatric Rehabilitation Consultants
SAMHSA evidence-based practices toolkit project
United States Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association (USPRA)
World Fellowship on Schizophrenia and Allied Disorders (provides lots of information on consumer and family support)
Journals
ABCT Online Journals
American Journal of Psychiatry
Psychiatric Services
Journal of Neuropsychiatry
Schizophrenia Bulletin
Books Available for Purchase
Assessment in Residential Treatment Settings: Observational Assessment Instrumentation for Service and Research by Gordon L. Paul
Cognitive Rehabilitation for Neuropsychiatric Disorders by Patrick W. Corrigan and Stuart C. Yudofsky (Editors)
Cognitive Technology in Psychiatric Rehabilitation by William D. Spaulding (Editor)
Behavioral Family Therapy for Psychiatric Disorders, 2nd Edition by Kim Tornvall Mueser and Shirley M. Glynn
Don’t Call Me Nuts: Coping with the Stigma of Mental Illness by Patrick Corrigan, Robert Lundin
Handbook of Social Functioning in Schizophrenia by Kim T. Mueser and Nicholas Tarrier (Editors)
Living outside mental illness: Qualitative studies in recovery in schizophrenia by Larry Davidson
Practitioner’s Guide to Empirically Based Measures of Social Skills by DW Nangle, DJ Hansen, CA Erdley and PJ Norton (Editors)
Principles and practice of psychiatric rehabilitation: An empirical approach by Patrick Corrigan, Kim Mueser, Gary Bond, Robert Drake and Phyllis Solomon
Psychiatric rehabilitation (second edition) by Carlos Pratt, Kenneth Gill, Nora Barret and Melissa Roberts
Reconstructing Schizophrenia by Richard P. Bentall (Editor)
Recovery from Disability: Manual of psychiatric rehabilitation by Robert Liberman
The Role of the State Hospital in the Twenty-First Century: New Directions for Mental Health Services #84 by William D. Spaulding (Editor)
Schizophrenia by Steven Silverstein, William Spaulding and Anthony Menditto
Social Cognition and Schizophrenia by Patrick W. Corrigan and David L. Penn (Editors)
Social Skills Training for Schizophrenia: A Step-by-Step Guide, 2nd Edition, by Alan S. Bellack, Kim T. Mueser, Susan Gingerich, and Julie Agresta
Theories of Schizophrenia and Psychosis: Nebraska Symposium on Motivation 1983 by William D. Spaulding and James K. Cole (Editors)
Treatment and Rehabilitation of Severe Mental Illness by William Spaulding, Mary Sullivan, and Jeffrey Poland