Mental Health
According to the World Health Organization, approximately 970 million people across the globe live with mental disorders such as anxiety and depression, substance abuse, post-traumatic stress disorder, and eating disorders (among others). They often do not have access to effective care, and are frequently stigmatized, which can result in social exclusion and disproportionate exposure to other risks. Moreover, mental health care relies heavily on expensive medications and therapy while innovative treatments are limited. In the United States, the dissolution of mental health care systems often parallels the rise in homelessness and incarceration rates too. (https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/mental-disorders).
This topic challenges your group to explore the causes and consequences of a significant mental disorder, research it as much as possible, and propose an innovative program to address it in a way that promotes a greater well-being for all. To inform your project, reach out to experts and other interested parties during the research process.
Getting Started
Reference resources provide a starting point for your research projects.
Credo Reference
Credo Reference provides hundreds of encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, and more in one place. Below is a sample of keyword searches in Credo Reference related to this topic:
Call Numbers and Subject Headings
You can use the list of call numbers and subject headings below as keyword searches in our catalog and databases, or you can go to these sections of the library to find books on these topics.
- RA790-790.95 Mental Health / Mental Illness Prevention
Books
Books from Lane Library
The books in this list are located either in the Franzen Center on Floor 3A or as an e-book.
- Discrimination against the mentally ill / HV3004 .J657 2016
- Mental health awareness / RA790.6 .M46 2022
- Rural Mental Health: issues, policies, and best practices / RA790.6 .R88 2012
- Citizenship and mental health / RC451.4.H64 R69 2015
- Mental health issues and the university student / RC451.4.S7 I37 2014
- What is mental illness? / RC454.M326 W42 2011
- Insane consequences : how the mental health industry fails the mentally ill / RC455 .J28 2017
- The Praeger handbook of mental health and the aging community / RC451.4.A5 P73 2018
- The diagnostic system : why the classification of psychiatric disorders is necessary, difficult, and never settled / RC469 .S36 2017
- People with mental illness in the criminal justice system : answering a cry for help / ebook
- Bodies of truth : personal narratives on illness, disability, and medicine / ebook
- Lazy, crazy, and disgusting : stigma and the undoing of global health / ebook
- PTSD : a short history / ebook
- American shame : stigma and the body politic / ebook
- Improving mental health : four secrets in plain sight / ebook
- Voices of mental health : medicine, politics, and American culture, 1970-2000 / ebook
Search terms for additional books in Lane Library’s catalog:
Discovery Search: Search Lane Library’s books, ebooks, and articles in one place.
Books from other libraries
WorldCat: Search for books not available at Lane Library and borrow from other libraries for free through interlibrary loan.
Articles
Databases
The following databases are useful places to search for Mental Health related articles. Contact a librarian if you would like more information on how to search for articles on your specific topic.
- Academic Search Complete: Wide range of academic disciplines, including for scholarly and popular journals.
- New York Times: Access to news and archival content from NY Times. If you run into a paywall, here is more information on how to sign up.
- ProQuest Research Library: Includes both popular and scholarly periodicals covering a variety of subjects, with over 3300 titles available in full text.
- ProQuest Social Science Journals: Social science topics.
Get articles from other libraries
If you cannot find a full-text version of the article you need, request it through interlibrary loan. Interlibrary loan is a free service that allows you to borrow books and articles from other libraries. Find answers to frequently asked questions about ILL here.
Government Sources, Statistics, and Websites
Government sources
“The Department of Health and Human Services mission is to enhance the well-being of all Americans”
Part of the Department of Health and Human Services, the National Institute of Mental Health “is the lead federal agency for research on mental disorders”
Statistics
- CIA World Factbook : Background information on each country in the world
- Gallup polls : Polls on a variety of topics by a trusted organization
- Proquest Statistical Abstract : Statistics from federal agencies
- World Almanac : Collection of statistics and rankings