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The PSYCHOLOGY WIKI

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Welcome to The Psychology Wiki

The Psychology Wiki started on 21st January 2006 and is now one of the largest psychology resources on the internet. We currently have 80,341 pages and are working on 34,782 articles and have over 45 MB of content. This is a trade-a-fact website.

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NEW: Featured Article

The Psychology Wiki is proud to present its first featured article:

• Recovery from Acquired Brain Injury.

Have a look at this article as an example of how the Psychology Wiki is intended to work. Please feel free to add internal or external links to the article, and/or improve the article if you want to.

• We need help to prepare our next featured article: Clinical Depression.

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What is the Psychology Wiki?

The Psychology Wiki is an offshoot of the popular Wikipedia site, which is an online, user contribution orientated encyclopedia. The Psychology Wiki was started by a group of professional psychologists who decided that a single reference site containing all of the information contained within psychology as a discipline would be an invaluable tool to clinical professionals, academics, students and other interested parties.

This site aims to provide an up-to-date, authoritative statement of knowledge, theory, and practice in the whole field of psychology. It is written to serve academic needs at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, to inform professionals, both in training and in the field, and to provide information for the people we seek to help.

Using the same software as the Wikipedia site, the Psychology Wiki is intended to slowly develop through contributions from its users. Initially much of the information will be similar to that on the Wikipedia site; however it is envisaged that the Psychology Wiki will go into much greater depth.

As the intended users of the Wiki are professionals and students within Psychology, there is much greater potential for the articles and information to be of a higher standard than is the case in Wikipedia, due to a greater level of expertise. Another aim of the site is allow users of psychologic & psychiatric services to comment on their experiences in seperate discussion areas, linked to each article.

The Psychology Wiki is intended to link to every academic paper referenced, either on-site (elsewhere in the Psychology Wiki) or off-site (to external sources, eg. PubMed). This was the original intention of the world wide web at Cern in Geneva, allowing scientists to quickly cross reference papers with their colleagues in related fields.

Finally, the Psychology Wiki will have extensive indexing, allowing easy navigation from one subject to another, as well as extensive cross-linking of keywords to different subjects, which will be familiar to users of wikipedia.

For more information, see Our Vision.

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How do I USE the Psychology Wiki?

Terms and keywords can be searched for in the search box (to the left side of the screen). It is also possible to search for terms using the sites indexing, for example:

Index Page Category:Applied psychology: Category:Clinical psychology Category:Clinical:Types of problem Category:Depression Clinical Depression Article Depression:Risk factors Depression:Depression in women Depression:Depression in men Depression and physical illness

The site index is easily accessible via the Psychology Wiki navigation box (on the right hand side of most pages).

Highlighted words will take you to a page within the Psychology Wiki, related to that word. For example, here the word Depression will take you to the main page for clinical depression. Highlighted words with an arrow next to them [1] will take you to an external site elsewhere on the internet, for example The British Psychological Society.

If you were looking for it, here is an Introduction to Psychology.

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How do I contribute to the Psychology Wiki?

First of all: WELCOME! We are happy to see that you have found us, and hope that you will consider contributing to this great resource. For those of you who are not familiar with editing, etc. don't worry! You will find all of the resources you need HERE, along with administrators, and many other users that are more than happy to assist you. Don't hesitate to contact an administrator at any point by leaving a message on their talk page or sending an email if you have any questions or concerns! Guide Page If you are new to Wikis, please see our: Help Beginners Tutorial The Beginners Guide to Editing A wiki is a new type of web page that you can edit and you are cordially invited to contribute to this collaborative project. For newcomers our Orientation Section and Help Section should ease you into the site. Another good start is the Site Layout which describes the layout of the site. If you are already familiar with Wiki's, go to the Community Portal our Tasks To Do Portal or our General Discussion Forum. If you are already familiar with editing using Wiki based software, then you can Create an Account and begin to contribute. You can check the Tasks To Do portal for a general list of things to do, or contribute to the General Discussion Forum for discussions about specific aims we are trying to achieve with the Psychology Wiki at the moment. Adding Material & Referencing. All information should be factually correct and properly referenced. The Psychology Wiki uses the American Psychological Association format for referencing. For example: Henriques, Gregg (2003) The Tree of Knowledge System and the Theoretical Unification of Psychology. Review of General Psychology, Vol. 7, No. 2, 150-182. Fulltext. However, in the discussion pages for any particular topic, we encourage constructive criticisms, alternative opinions, proposals for hypotheses requiring verification, practitioner reports, user views, etc...

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What if I am a user of Psychology / Psychiatric services?

Personal Experiences Page As someone with personal experiences of Psychology or Psychiatric services you can contribute to this site in meaningful ways. It is intended to be a source of information for all people with an interest in Psychology, and this includes people who may be undergoing counselling, therapy, or treatment currently, or have in the past.* Whilst the main content pages are mainly edited by Academics, Professionals, Students and Trainees in Psychology, there is also a unique way in which you can contribute. Personal Experience pages are a place for those who have gone through a mental illness to share their story. This includes people who are still dealing with an illness, and those who have overcome it. Close relatives and friends of someone with a mental illness are also welcome to share their experiences. The purpose of the Personal Experiences is to share our stories relating to mental health with others who may have had similar experiences. It is encouraging for someone dealing with depression, for example, to read another person's experience and relate. Perhaps someone will read your story and realize that they're not alone in their struggle. They are also very useful for psychologists to try and gain insight into peoples experiences. They will be 100% anonymous and confidential, and can be removed at any time should the contributor wish it so. All personal experience pages will be a rose colour, meaning they are (1) not necessarily written by an expert, and (2) not have a neutral point of view (NPOV), which is the standard for all other pages. These pages will be protected from editing by other users. Click here to read what one user wrote on a personal experience page. Click here to learn more about how to share your experience.

• *Please Note: The information given on this website, is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. If you have a medical or psychological problem, or are taking prescribed medication, please consult with your doctor.

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The Site Index

Index Page The Index Pages of the Psychology Wiki follow on from the links on the front page, and generally follow the headings used by PsychINFO as approved by the American Psychological Society. The links below lead to a series of further links forming an Heirarchical Index Skeleton underpinning the structure of the site. From here you should be no more than five clicks away from any subject in any field.

Academic psychology Assessment (Psychometrics) Biological psychology Comparative psychology Cognitive psychology Developmental psychology Human experimental psychology Language & Communication Psychology of personality Philosophy & psychology Research methods Social psychology Social processes Statistics	Applied psychology Clinical psychology & psychotherapy Educational psychology Industrial & organisational psychology Professional items Other specialist fields of psychology Transpersonal psychology World psychology

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Funding

The Psychology Wiki and its founders make no money from this site. It is an entirely voluntary operation deseminating copyright free psychology information. Our goal is to share, without costs of any kind, psychology knowledge between academic and professional psychologists and with a wider audience of non-psychologists.

The Google advertisements to the right hand pane on your screen are part of the business funding model of Wikia Inc.. They host the wiki, providing the technical facilities, bandwidth, storage, backup and technical support for the site for free, as they do for other Wikia sites. Their declared intention is to do this in perpetuity, the company making its profit via the advertisments. Wikia was set up by the founders of Wikipedia as another approach to making knowlege available, without cost, to the people of the world.

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Disclaimer

Please Note:

Psychology and medicine are changing sciences and not all therapies are clearly established. New research changes treatment and therapy recommendations daily. The contributors to the Psychology Wiki have used their best efforts to provide information that is up-to-date and accurate and reflects generally accepted academic standards at the time of publication. However, as our science is constantly changing and human error possible, the contributors to this article do not warrant the information as accurate or complete, nor are they responsible for omissions or errors in the article or for the results of using this information. The reader should confirm the information in this article from other sources prior to use. See full disclaimer for further statement.