Psychomedia
www.psychomedia.it
E’ il sito della Società Italiana di Medicina Psicosomatica.

Società Americana di Psicosomatica
www.psychosomatic.org
La Società Americana di Psicosomatica si dedica alla ricerca scientifica sui rapporti esistenti tra mente, cervello, corpo e contesto sociale rispetto alla salute e alla patogenesi, all’andamento clinico e al trattamento delle malattie. Il giornale ufficiale è Psychosomatic Medicine.

International Society of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynaecology
www.ispog.org
Here you will find information about the activities of ISPOG, our objectives, meetings and congresses, the Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology, women's health links and an e-mail reply form to get in touch with us.

Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine
www.apm.org
Organization for Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry The Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine has as its central focus patients with co morbid medical and psychiatric illness and the interaction between them. This focus entails clinical work, research and teaching as well as leadership in the provision of medical-surgical psychiatry services. Since its establishment in 1954, the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine has served as a meeting ground for collaboration and exchange of knowledge and ideas in the arena of psychiatric medicine and consultation-liaison psychiatry. Among the objectives of the Academy are the advancement of scientific knowledge through study, clinical research and practice, and the furtherance of communication between medically related disciplines. The goal of the Academy's international membership is to ensure the highest standards of education, research, ethics and quality of patient care in the practice of psychosomatic medicine and consultation-liaison psychiatry.

American Psychiatric Association
www.psych.org
The American Psychiatric Association is a medical specialty society recognized world-wide. Its 37,000 U.S. and international member physicians work together to ensure humane care and effective treatment for all persons with mental disorder, including mental retardation and substance-related disorders. It is the voice and conscience of modern psychiatry. Its vision is a society that has available, accessible quality psychiatric diagnosis and treatment.

American Psychological Association - Division 22 (Rehabilitation Psychology)
www.apa.org/divisions/div22
The Division of Rehabilitation Psychology was established in 1956 as an organization of psychologists concerned with the psychological and social consequences of disability, and with ways to prevent and resolve problems associated with disability. Members of Division 22 have diverse research and service interests, and include psychologists working in rehabilitation facilities, medical center hospitals and clinics, colleges and universities, private practices, government programs, social service agencies and schools.

American Psychological Association - Division 38
(Health Psychology)
www.health-psych.org
The purpose of the Division of Health Psychology is: to advance contributions of psychology as a discipline to the understanding of health and illness through basic and clinical research and by encouraging the integration of biomedical information about health and illness with current psychological knowledge to promote education and services in the psychology of health and illness to inform the psychological and biomedical community, and the general public, on the results of current research and service activities in this area.

The Chronic Disease Prevention Databases Web site
www.cdc.gov/cdp
The Chronic Disease Prevention (CDP) databases were developed to provide access to information on chronic disease prevention and health promotion to health professionals responsible for supporting, planning, developing, implementing, and evaluating chronic disease prevention and risk reduction efforts. The databases provide bibliographic citations and abstracts of various types of materials including journal articles, monographs, book chapters, reports, curricular materials, fact sheets, and proceedings. Full text is provided for selected publications. The databases also contain descriptions of chronic disease prevention and health promotion programs.

Psychwatch re behavioral med in the news
www.psychwatch.com/news.htm
Psychwatch began in April, 1998 as a weekly email Newsletter detailing events and internet-related developments in the mental health field. It has since evolved into a global communication and information network, providing information to those in the healthcare and mental health care fields. The Psychwatch Newsletter has a readership of over 12,000 professionals and students in at least 75 different countries. Our website continues to expand, and Psychwatch continues to develop into new areas to better serve its audience.

Liaison-Psychiatry Section of the Royal College of Psychiatrists
www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/liaison-psychiatry.html
Promotion of education, research and effective professional practice in consultation-liaison psychiatry and related fields, including psychosomatics and health psychology. This is a listserv archive.

PsychoNeuroImmunology Research Society
www.pnirs.org
The PsychoNeuroImmunology Research Society is an international organization for researchers in a number of scientific and medical disciplines, including psychology, neurosciences, immunology, physiology, pharmacology, psychiatry, behavioral medicine, infectious diseases, and rheumatology, who are interested in interactions between the nervous and immune systems, and the relationship between behavior and health. An important goal is to conduct basic research that can be translated into clinically relevant health applications.

Society for Psychophysiological Research
liberty.uc.wlu.edu/~spr/info.html
Founded in 1960, the Society for Psychophysiological Research is an international scientific society with worldwide membership. The purpose of the Society is to foster research on the interrelationships between the physiological and psychological aspects of behavior. To promote this purpose, the Society publishes scientific literature, including the journal Psychophysiology, and holds annual meetings for presentation and discussion of original theory and research, instrumentation and methodology, and new directions and standards in the field.

Society of Behavioral Medicine
www.sbmweb.org
SBM has created the premiere scientific forum for over 3,000 behavioral and biomedical researchers and clinicians to study the interactions of behavior, physiological and biochemical states, and morbidity and mortality. SBM provides the many disciplines represented with an interactive network for education and collaboration on common research, clinical and public policy concerns related to prevention, diagnosis and treatment, rehabilitation, and health promotion.

The Center for Health and Behavior
www.chb.syr.edu
Based in Syracuse U., the Center for Health and Behavior seeks: To facilitate externally funded research on the behavioral aspects of health To enhance knowledge regarding health-behavior relationships To create unique active-learning opportunities for students To enhance graduate and postdoctoral training of health professionals and behavioral scientists To provide clinical and educational services to the community.

NIH Office of Extramural Research
grants.nih.gov/grants/oer.htm
In its mission to protect and improve human health, the U. S. NIH uses many millions of federal tax dollars to support basic, applied, and clinical and health services research.
The overarching goal is to understand the processes underlying human health and to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, diagnose, and treat human diseases and disabilities. Each institute within the NIH has a mandate with well-defined priorities that address science and health from a specific perspective, a disease area (cancer) or an area of concern (aging).

The Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research
obssr.od.nih.gov/funding.html
The U.S. Congress established the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) in the Office of the Director, NIH, in recognition of the key role that behavioral and social factors often play in illness and health. The OBSSR mission is to stimulate behavioral and social sciences research throughout NIH and to integrate these areas of research more fully into others of the NIH health research enterprise, thereby improving our understanding, treatment, and prevention of disease. This link within the OBSSR website provides information for scientists interested in learning more about specific funding opportunities in the behavioral and social sciences, as well as the policies regulating research and training supported by the NIH.

The European Association for Consultation Liaison Psychiatry and Psychosomatics
www.eaclpp.org
The primary objectives of EACLPP are:

• to promote the management of patients with psychiatric disorders and psychological problems in medical settings
• to promote the advance of scientific knowledge and clinical practice in the field of C-L psychiatry and psychosomatics
• to exchange information among the members of the association and
• to educate the general public regarding C-L psychiatry and psychosomatics
• to develop and promote standards for training and practice of C-L psychiatry and professional conduct within the field
• to provide a forum for presentation, dissemination and discussion of scientific problems in C-L psychiatry and psychosomatics through the organization of meetings, conferences, workshops and publications

SIPO
www.sostumori.org/sipo00.htm
La Società è stata fondata nel 1985 con gli obiettivi di implementare e diffondere la conoscenza sugli aspetti psicologici, sociali e comportamentali del cancro, inclusi i fattori chiamati in causa nell'insorgenza e sul decorso del cancro e le conseguenze psicosociali della malattia sul paziente, la famiglia e lo staff. Nel sito sono reperibili e scaricabili le linee-guida (Standard, opzioni e raccomadazioni per una buona pratica in psiconcologia) messe a punto dalla SIPO, oltre ad indicazioni relativamente al training. La Società pubblica la rivista il Giornale Italiano di Psico-Oncologia (direttori Gabriella Morasso e Luigi Grassi) organo ufficiale della SIPO (http://www.pensiero.it/pensiero/progr/Dettagli.asp?QualeRamo=Psico&IDPubblicazione=305).

IPOS-ASPBOA
www.ipos-aspboa.org
Co-fondate da Jimmie C. Holland, la ASPBOA e la IPOS sono società multidisciplinari che promuovono il benessere psicologico, sociale e fisico dei pazienti con cancro, AIDS o analoghe malattie, e delle loro famiglie in tutti gli stadi di malattia e nella sopravvivenza attraverso cure cliniche, educazione, ricerca e advocacy. Il sito si propone di diffondere informazioni aggiornate su avvenimenti di interesse pisconcologico, recensione di testi oltre ad interessanti lectures di significativi congressi nell'area. LA ASPOBOA Clinical Update offre dati bibliografici aggiornati. La Rivista Psycho-Oncology (editors Jimmie C. Holland and Maggie Watson) (http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jtoc?ID=5807) è l'organo scientifico ufficiale della ASPBOA/IPOS e della British Psychosocial Oncology Society (BPOS) (http://www.bpos.org.uk/)

BPOS
www.bpos.org.uk
La Società britannica di Psiconcologia è stata fondata nel 1984 col fine di promuovere la conoscenza degli aspetti psicologici e sociali del cancro tra i professionisti che lavorano con i pazienti affetti da patologie neoplastiche, oltre a fornire un forum per i professionisti di questo nuovo settore. L'obiettivo è di disseminare sia I dati delle ricerche e le esperienze cliniche. Oltre a un meeting scientifico a cadenza annuale, I membri organizzano corsi di training e workshops clinici attraverso meetings effettuati in associazione ad altre Società. Ne sono membri infermieri, assistenti sociali, medici, psicologi, psichiatri, radioterapisti e sociologi. Fornisce informazioni sulla Società, la rivista Psycho-Oncology e una Newsletter, oltre a links con altri web-sites inerenti l'area della psiconcologia

AOSW
www.aosw.org
Il sito dell'Association of Oncology Social Work (AOSW) offre risorse per le figure professionali dell'area assistenziali sociali che lavorano in ambito oncologico e che sono le figure professionali che forniscono ai pazienti servizi psicosociali ai pazienti, alle famiglie e agli operatori. Il sito è dedicato ad aumentare la consapevolezza dei bisogni sociali, emozionali, spirituali ed educazionali dei pazienti con cancro attraverso conferenze e pubblicazioni. Vengono inoltre promossi la ricerca clinica e lo sviluppo di reti di supporto che affrontino i più comuni problemi e le preoccupazioni dei pazienti. La AOSW pubblica il Journal of Psychosocial Oncology (editors Grace H. Christ and James R. Zabora) (http://www.haworthpressinc.com/), organo ufficiale della stessa associazione.

CAPO
www.cancercentre.com/capo
Il sito della Canadian Association of Psychosocial Oncology (CAPO) offre l'opportunità di esaminare i National Psychosocial Oncology Standards for Canada datati Luglio 1999 e approvati dal Comitato Direttivo nel Settembre 1999 (http://www.cancercentre.com/capo/finalstandards.cfm).

Q-web Sweden
www.qweb.kvinnoforum.se/qwnews.htm
A global communication network for exchange of knowledge, experience and ideas on women's health and gender issues.

Aviva
www.aviva.org/eveindex.htm
The international internet magazine for women.

UN's Women Watch.
www.un.org/womenwatch/calendar.htm

Società Italiana di Psichiatria di Consultazione
www.sipc.it
Sezione speciale della Società Italiana di Psichiatria