Mental illnesses

Materials for the seminars "Target group" and "Disease patterns"

• Overview: Seminar plan and annotated bibliography
• Seminar slides

Internet links

Specific diseases:

• German Depression Aid Foundation
• Dementia Competence Network
• Schizophrenia Competence Network
• Angsthilfe e.V.
• German Society for Suicide Prevention
• German Society for Compulsive Disorders   
• Federal Center for Health Education: Eating disorders
• Essay: Self-harming behavior of adolescents
• Borderline personality disorder: Introduction and list of links

General information

• Introduction: Community psychiatry
• German Society for Social Psychiatry(DGSP)
• Sociotherapy according to §37a SGB
• Psychiatrienetz (many professions, relatives, affected persons, materials),
• Psychiatry publishing house
• Overview of psychiatric diagnoses: ICD-10 and the forthcoming ICD 11
• The Central Office for Clinical Social Work
• DGSA: Section Clinical Social Work
• Journal, books, master's theses on clinical social work: ZKS-Verlag
• Stigma and social representation of madness: colloquial metaphors for mental crises and extreme states