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Open Methods, Open Data, Open Access - Archives of Scientific Psychology

The American Psychological Association (APA) is now accepting manuscripts for Archives of Scientific Psychology, which is expecting to publish its first article next year. Gary VendenBos co-editor stated "While Archives isn't psychology's first open-access journal, it is the first to require authors to contribute their full data set to a central, restricted-access data repository." The journal aims to appeal to a dual audience of both scientis

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

Clinical Practice
Evaluation
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.

Journals
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.

Related Guides
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: 

Health Sciences Blog - keep up to date with UQ Library developments in the Health Sciences.

Psychology

Getting Started

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

Abbreviations: 

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
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.

Journal Articles: 

Key Databases

PsycArticles

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.

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.

Scopus

Scopus is an abstracting database covering research in the sciences and social sciences.

Web of Knowledge

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

Additional Databases

BMJ Clinical evidence

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.

Cochrane Library

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.

ERIC

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

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

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

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.

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.

Related Guides
Specialised Resources
Specialised Resources: 

Ebooks available at:

PsycBOOKS

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.

Psychiatry Online

American Psychiatric Publishing (APPI), is a publisher of books, journals, and multimedia on psychiatry, mental health, and behavioral sciences.

Statistics
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
What's New
What's New: 

Health Sciences Blog - keep up to date with UQ Library developments in the Health Sciences.

Psychological First Aid: Guide for Field Workers

Psychological First Aid.jpg"PFA is an alternative to "psychological debriefing" which has been found to be ineffective. In contrast, PFA involves factors that seem to be most helpful to people's long-term recovery..... These include: