Library Guides: CLINICAL COUNSELING: Research Guide: Get Started

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Jeanie Winkelmann

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In This Guide

In this Guide, you'll find:

Resources to help you find background information
Useful databases to help you find scholarly articles
Information on searching for books, ebooks, and streaming video
Suggestions and resources for starting dissertations and theses or other major research and writing projects
APA citation help

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Key Resources

Quick links to best bets

PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
The premier database for peer-reviewed research in all areas of psychology. Provides comprehensive indexing and abstracts for international psychological literature from the 1800s to the present.
APA PsycTherapy This link opens in a new window
Therapy demonstration videos to help learners observe therapy approaches and techniques in practice.

Videos for your classes

Psychotherapy.net This link opens in a new window
Streaming video of therapy techniques and sessions. **UJ only has access to the videos that are used in Clinical Counseling courses.

Find Background Information

Reference sources - great for getting started

Reference sources can be a great starting point for research. Reference sources typically provide definitions, give topic overviews, and explain theories. They can also point to additional readings and scholarship. Examples of reference sources include: dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, guidebooks, manuals, and textbooks.

The Professional Counselor's Desk Reference
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2016
An extremely useful guide for counseling students working toward licensure and certification as well as experienced counselors, counselor educators, clinical supervisors, psychologists, and social workers.
Cambridge Handbook of Psychology, Health and Medicine
Call Number: ebook
Offers a comprehensive, accessible, one-stop resource for clinical psychologists, mental health professionals and specialists in health-related matters.
The Counseling Dictionary
Call Number: Raugust Library REF 158.3 G451c
Publication Date: 2011
An excellent resource that will serve both experienced and novice counselors. Terms in the dictionary are cross-referenced and written in a concise and easy to understand way.