Key Databases for Counselling
Journal articles provide current information. Researchers and commentators often first report their findings and ideas in a journal. Databases are a good place to start searching for online Journal articles.
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PsycINFOContains citations to the scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences from 1800 to the present.
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Psychology and Behavioral Sciences CollectionOver 500 peer-reviewed, full text titles covering emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
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Humanities & Social Sciences CollectionIncludes Australian content in the humanities and social sciences fields, including: Cultural Studies, Health, Medicine, History, Indigenous Studies, Political Science, Social Sciences and more
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ProQuest Psychology DatabaseIncludes over 640 titles and covers behavioral, clinical, cognitive, developmental, experimental, industrial and social psychology, along with personality, psychobiology and psychometrics.
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Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference WorksA searchable collection containing real transcripts of counseling and therapy sessions and first-person narratives.
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PsycEXTRAGray literature database which includes conference proceedings, technical and annual reports , government reports, policy statements, and white papers as well as non scholarly publications useful for research purposes.
Video Databases
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Counseling and Therapy in VideoThis collection of videos is available for the study of counseling, social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling.
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Health and Society in VideoHealth and Society in Video explores today's latest medical progress in health and wellness issues. There are hundreds of premium documentaries, profiles, reports and interviews.
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ByalawaA video series about appropriate culturally safe interviewing and case history-taking skills when working with indigenous clients.
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PsycTHERAPYPsycTHERAPY is a database of streaming psychotherapy demonstrations featuring well-known therapists in North America dealing with a variety of therapeutic topics.
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Psychotherapy : An Australian Perspective (Video Vignettes)These YouTube videos are a supplementary learning resource for the book Psychotherapy: An Australian Perspective, by O’Donovan, Casey, van der Veen, and Boschen.
All characters, ‘therapists’ and ‘clients’, are played by actors, and scenarios are fictitious.
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Psychological Experiments OnlineThis is a multimedia collection that synthesises the most important psychological experiments of the 20th and 21st century.