Psychology
- Getting Started
- Evaluation
- Journal Articles
- Multimedia
- Specialised Resources
- Statistics
- Web Sites
- What's New
Getting Started
If you are not sure what your topic is about, try one or more of the following:
Browsing the shelves
You can also browse the catalogue or the shelves at the following call numbers:-
- BF Psychology
- BF176 Psychological testing
- HM251-291 Social psychology
- HM1041-1101 Social perception. Social cognition Including perception of the self and others, prejudices, stereotype
- HM1106-1171 Interpersonal relations. Social behavior
- LB Educational psychology
- QP351-495 Neurophysiology and 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
- RA1148 & HV6080 Forensic psychology
Evaluation
DSM-IV-TR - Diagnostic & statistical manual of mental disorders
International Classification of Disease (ICD) - Chapter 5 deals with mental and behavioural disorders
Mental measurements yearbook - comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments.
Test critiques - evaluation of psychological & educational tests & measurements.
Directory of unpublished experimental mental measures - Journal published by the APA.
See the "How-to" guide on Psychological & Educational Tests
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.
Key Databases
PsycArticles is a database containing full-text access to journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber.
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.
Scopus is an abstracting database covering research in the sciences and social sciences.
Web of Knowledge includes material in the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities.
Additional Databases
A continually updated directory of evidence on the effects of common clinical interventions. It provides concise and current knowledge about the prevention and treatment of clinical conditions.
A source of up-to-date information on the effects of interventions in health care, designed to provide information and evidence to support decisions taken in health care and to inform those receiving care.
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a digital library of education-related resources, sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education
Informit Complete is a set of over 80 Australian databases including the Australasian Medical Index (AMI), A+Education (AEI), Health & Society, APAIS-Health, Health Collection and more.
MEDLINEplus has extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on medical diseases and conditions.
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 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.
The Video Journal of Counseling and Therapy
The Video Journal of Counseling and Therapy is a streaming video collection of the latest in research and best practice methods in the fields of counseling, mental health, and psychology.
Specialised Resources
Ebooks available at:
A full-text database of books and chapters from the American Psychological Association (APA). The collection features books published by APA. New APA publications enter the PsycBOOKS database in the year following copyright year.
American Psychiatric Publishing (APPI), is a publisher of books, journals, and multimedia on psychiatry, mental health, and behavioral sciences.
Statistics
SPSS for starters (introduction to the statistical package for social scientists).
Zentralblatt MATH - from the European Mathematical Society, includes applications for psychology.
Web Sites
Professional organisations
American Psychology Association
Australian Clinical Psychology Association
Australian Psychological Society
Association for Psychological Science
General websites
CRUfAD Mental Health (formerly Climate Mental Health)
What's New
Health Sciences Blog - keep up to date with UQ Library developments in the Health Sciences.
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