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Counselling

Getting Started

If you are not sure what your topic is about, try one or more of the following:

Dictionaries: 

The counseling dictionary: concise definitions of frequently used terms (2011)

Dictionary of counselling (2004)

Browsing the shelves

You can also browse the catalogue or the shelves at the following call numbers:

BF 1- 900 Psychology

BF1001 - 1389 Parapsychology

HM811 - 821 Deviant behaviour

HM1001 - 1281 Social psychology

HQ1 - 2044 The family, marriage, women, children

HT51 - 1595 Communities, classes, races.

HV1 - 9960 Social psychology, social & public welfare, criminology

QP351 - 495 Neurophysiology & neuropsychology

RC467 Clinical psychology

RC512-569.5 Psychopathology

RC512-528 Psychoses

RC530-552 Neuroses

RC554-569.5 Personality disorders. Behavior problems including sexual problems, drug abuse, suicide, child abuse

RC475-489 Therapeutics. Psychotherapy

RC500-510 Psychoanalysis

RC512-569.5 Psychopathology

Journal Articles

For recent information, journal articles are often the best sources. Looking through individual journals in the hope of finding relevant material is time-consuming. It is better to use the databases to find articles on your topic.

Journal Articles: 

FAMILY

The FAMILY database indexes and abstracts current Australian writing and research on the legal, sociological, psychological, economic and demographic situation of Australian families, children and adults.

Social Services Abstracts

The Social Services Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.

PsycINFO

PsychINFO is a key resource in the study of psychology and contains journals, books, book chapters, reports, theses and dissertations in psychology and related fields.

Medline

MEDLINE has extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on medical diseases and conditions.

Web of Knowledge

Web of Knowledge includes material in the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities.

Multimedia

Multimedia: 

Counseling and Therapy in Video

Counseling and Therapy in Video provides an online collection of video available for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling. The videos in this collection have been drawn from the catalogs of Microtraining Associates, Psychotherapy.net, and the University of Manchester Department of Psychiatry. Subject coverage includes material on race, family and relationships, gender, education and training, and substance abuse.

Counseling and psychotherapy : transcripts, client narratives and reference works.

Transcripts of actual therapy sessions, together with client narratives and major reference works. There are diaries, letters, autobiographies, oral histories, and personal memoirs along with the full text of therapy and counseling sessions themselves.

Psyche visual online videos

Psyche Visual is an online resource providing ongoing access to a constantly updated library of video and multimedia presentations on aspects of psychology, psychiatry and mental health care.

Web Sites

Web Sites: 

Australian Counselling Association

The Australian Counselling Association (ACA) is a National progressive professional peak association of counsellors and psychotherapists.

Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychotherapy

The Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychotherapy (ANZAP) was founded as a place to exchange ideas, training and supervision in the practice of psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia Inc.

The Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA) is a peak body for Member Associations which meet the standards developed by consensus as appropriate for professional practitioners within the disciplines of Counselling and Psychotherapy.

American Counseling Association

The American Counseling Association is a not-for-profit, professional and educational organization that is dedicated to the growth and enhancement of the counseling profession.

British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy

The British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapyis the main professional body representing counselling and psychotherapy services in the United Kingdom.

What's New

What's New: 

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