REFERENCE BOOKS

DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) REF RC455.2.C4 D54 1994
Note: Contains diagnostic criteria for the most common mental disorders including: description, diagnosis, treatment, and research findings.

DSM-IV-TR (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) REF RC455.2 .C4 D536 2000
Note: Text revision of the DSM-IV, 4th ed., c1994. Most changes are in Associated Features and Disorders; Specific Culture, Age, and Gender Features; Prevalence; Course; and Familial Pattern sections of the text.

Corsini Encyclopedia of Psych. and Behavioral Science (REF BF31 .E52 2001)

Encyclopedia of Multicultural Psychology (REF GN 502 .E63 2006)

Encyclopedia of Drugs and Alcohol (REF HV5804 .E53 1995)

Encyclopedia of Human Intelligence (REF BF431 .E59 1994)

Encyclopedia of Learning and Memory (REF BF318 .E53 1992)

Encyclopedia of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Psychoanalysis (REF RC437 .E49 1996)

Historical Encyclopedia of School Psychology (REF LB1027.55 .H57)

McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (REF Q121 .M3 1997)

Mental Measurements Yearbook, from this link or in paper: REF BF431 .M46
NOTE: The library has the 1st and the 3rd through the most current yearbooks. These volumes provide descriptive information, references and critical reviews of commercially published English-language tests.

MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences (REF BF311 .M556 1999)

Oxford Companion to the Mind (REF BF31 .O94 1998)

Physician’s Desk Reference (PDR) (REF RS75 .P5 2003)

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Assn. (REF BF76.7 .P83 2001)

BOOKS (2ND FLOOR STACKS)

To browse the psychology books on second floor, go to the BF section of the library.

To search for BOOKS on your topic, go to Voyager, the library's online catalog. Click “Books and…” on the library webpage. Below are some suggested SUBJECT terms:

affective disorders

anxiety

behavior disorders in children

cognition in children

mental illness--diagnosis

perception

psychology, pathological

psychometrics

psychotherapy

senses and sensation

social sciences—statistical methods

substance abuse

 

JOURNAL ARTICLES

You will find the following databases & more searchable from the SuperSearch Custom Search Psychology page. Use the Simple or Advanced search box to enter your question, check the boxes for up to 8 & click GO. Here is a SuperSearch Tutorial link, or for more help please see a Reference Librarian.

PsycInfo
Provides abstracts, indexing and selected full-text for nearly 2000 journals from 1887 to the present. Also includes abstracts for dissertations, books and book chapters.

PsycArticles
Provides full-text coverage of 56 journals published by the American Psychological Association and allied organizations. All articles are also included in PsycInfo database.

Academic Search Premier
Journal coverage for most academic areas of study, including full text of many important psychology journals. Features selected full-text for over 4,650 journals,including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications; abstracts and indexing for nearly 8,200 scholarly journals with many dating back to 1975; and coverage of major national newspapers.

CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature)
Database for nursing and allied health, covering 1,200 leading journals.

ERIC
Indexes over 750 educational journals and more than 350,000 ERIC documents (research reports, curriculum guides, conference papers, handbooks produced by school systems, etc.). The library owns many of the journals indexed, as well as ERIC documents on microfiche from 1966 through mid-1970, and mid-1973 to the present. ERIC documents are also available electronically from 1995 to the present.

HealthSource: Nursing/Academic Edition
This database provides nearly 600 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines, as well as abstracts and indexing for nearly 650 additional journals. This database is updated on a daily basis.

Medline
MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE allows users to search abstracts from over 4,600 current biomedical journals.

Social Science Citation Index ISI Web of Knowledge
The Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It indexes more than 1,725 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals.

Social Sciences Full Text
A bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles of at least one column in length from English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere, plus the full text of selected periodicals. Indexing coverage begins in 1983; abstracting coverage begins with periodicals published in January 1994; full text coverage begins in January 1995.

Sociological Abstracts
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,700 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Records added after 1974 contain in-depth and non-evaluative abstracts of journal articles.

PSYCHOLOGY INTERNET DIRECTORIES

In addition to using comprehensive web search engines, such as Google, try searching directories of web sites selected by reviewers for their quality, reliability, and accuracy.

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