Mental Health Resources

Mental Health Interpreting

Vicarious Trauma/Interpreter Self-Care

Cross-Cultural Mental Health

Geriatric Depression Scale in Multiple Languages

Aging Clinical Research Center offers the Geriatric Depression Scale available in Arabic, Chinese, Creole, Dutch, French, French-Canadian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italina, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Maltese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Russian Ukrainian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese, and Yiddish

Facts for Families

American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry's "Facts for Families" provides information on issues that affect children, adolescents and their families. Translated material is available in Spanish, German, Malaysian, Polish, Icelandic, Arabic and Hebrew.

Befrienders Worldwide

Befrienders Centers work to reduce suicide worldwide with 31,000 volunteers in almost 40 countries.

Affiliated with Samaritans, the website offers general information about suicide, including statistics, warning signs and prevention in multiple languages.

Centers for Addiction and Mental Health

Informational fact sheets are available in English, French, Amharic, Chinese, Farsi, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Serbian, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, Tamil and Urdu.

General Perceived Self-Efficacy Scale (GSE)

10-item psychometric scale available in 30 languages

National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI-Spanish)

NAMI is the National Alliance on Mental Illness, the nation's largest grassroots organization for people with mental illness and their families. Founded in 1979, NAMI has affiliates in every state and in more than 1,100 local communities across the country. NAMI is dedicated to the eradication of mental illness and to the improvement of the quality of life for persons of all ages who are affected by mental illnesses.

National Asian American and Pacific Islander Mental Health Association

Flyers on symptoms and other information on bipolar disorder, depression and schizophrenia are available in Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Khmer, Hmong and English.

Patient Health International

This website, developed by AstraZeneca, has a Patient-Psychiatrist communication tool called "2-COM". The 2-COM checklist has been put together to help you talk more openly with your doctor or your nurse about any problems you might be having. By knowing more about your problems, your doctor or nurse may be able to do more to help you. It can be difficult to remember to mention all the things that are bothering you when you go to see the doctor. The 2-COM list will help you remember the things that you want to talk about with the doctor at your appointment.

The 2-COM tool is available in Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Turkish.

Royal College of Psychiatrists, The

This website offers translations of mental health material and links to websites for each community. Translated material is available in Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, French, Hindi, Greek, Gujarati, Persian, Polish, Punjabi, Russian, Spanish, Urdu, and Welsh.