Mental Health

This software helps kids learn and continue to build the skills of problem solving, friendship/life skills, critical thinking, emotions, and consequences. “The programs use interactive videos to teach key social thinking, language and behavior that are critical to everyday living.” These programs are designed for children with Autism and special needs. The software uses real life scenarios to engage children in answering questions, making judgments, and establishing outcomes.

"Luminosity is a site specializing in mental-challenge games to test your speed, reflexes and smarts. The site boasts that regularly playing games on the site will increase your mental acuity and smarts. Luminosity is designed to provide the brain with a 10-minute workout per day, which is said to improve the health and function of the brain over time...The site offers free accounts to new visitors, which requires only a valid email account. Registered users have access to a number of games that are designed to develop greater mental speed, memory, attention, flexibility and problem solving."

"Evaluation and Program Planning is based on the principle that the techniques and methods of evaluation and planning transcend the boundaries of specific fields and that relevant contributions to these areas come from people representing many different positions, intellectual traditions, and interests. In order to further the development of evaluation and planning, we publish articles from the private and public sectors in a wide range of areas. The primary goals of the journal are to assist evaluators and planners to improve the practice of their professions, to develop their skills and to improve their knowledge base."

"Health Affairs is a bimonthly, peer-reviewed journal that explores health policy issues of current concern. The peer-reviewed journal was founded in 1981 under the aegis of Project HOPE, a nonprofit international health education organization. Health Affairs explores health policy issues of current concern in both domestic and international spheres."