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Background Information: Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Handbooks
Use these sources to define terms and concepts in psychology and psychiatry. It is often useful to consult encyclopedias at the beginning of a research project to obtain a concise overview of a concept, school of thought, or a particular psychologist's contribution to the field.
Encyclopedia of Psychology
Oxford University Press and the American Psychological Association teamed to create a reference set which would "merge into one source the topics, methods, findings, advances, and applications that characterize the broad field of study" in psychology. The themes covered include psychology as a discipline, methods of scientific study, psychological testing, biological and cognitive processes, personal and social processes, interactive systems, development across the life span, cultural and cross-cultural psychology, adjustment and clinical dysfunction, and interventions.Encyclopedia of Psychology
Encyclopedia of Psychology provides subject access to the concepts and theories covering the entire field of psychology and is international in scope. It also gives access to an extensive list of biographies of eminent psychologists both living and dead. In essence, this encyclopedia serves as an advanced textbook on general psychology.
Encyclopedia of Family Life
This encyclopedia is intended for students, professionals and general readers as a reference concerning various aspects of the central and rapidly changing institution of the family. It concentrates on the past and present of families in North America. The encyclopedia is very broad in scope covering such areas as aging, child development, demographics, divorce, economics, education, health, kinship, race & ethnicity, religious practices, sociology and violence.
Encyclopedia of Human Behavior
This is a standard reference work covering all aspects of human behavior.
Encyclopedia of Human Intelligence
This two-volume reference work contains over 250 articles dealing with all aspects of human intelligence.
Encyclopedia of Learning and Memory
The Encyclopedia of Learning and Memory is a compendium of 189 articles that encompass the full range of knowledge about learning and memory.
Encyclopedia of Mental Health
The Encyclopedia of Mental Health strives to represent emerging trends in various fields of mental health that take into account new knowledge about the genetic, biological, developmental, social, societal, and cultural nature of human beings. This encyclopedia encompasses topics like depression, schizophrenia, mood disorders, mental retardation, dementia, conduct disorders, dissociate disorders, and therapy (cognitive therapy, behaviorist therapy, psychoanalytic therapy, and constructivist therapy to name several). In addition, links to behavioral medicine, health psychology, and other aspects of physical health are explored.
Encyclopedic Dictionary of Psychology
The Encyclopedic Dictionary provides easy access to definitions of terms relating to the language, institutions, and practices unique to the study of psychology.
Handbook of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry focuses on child development. Topics covered in each volume include development and syndromes of infants and preschoolers (vol. 1), development and syndromes of grade school children (vol. 2), development and syndromes of adolescents (vol. 3), varieties of development (vol. 4), clinical assessment and intervention planning (vol. 5), basic psychiatric science and treatment (vol. 6) and advances and new directions (vol. 7).
Handbook of Child Psychology
The fifth edition of this reference set offers in-depth exploration of the social, emotional, moral, perceptual, cognitive, linguistic and applied aspects of child psychology.
Psychologist's Psychotropic Drug Reference (PPDR)
The PPDR presents detailed drug monographs for over 100 prescription psychotropic drugs available in North America. This makes the PPDR the most comprehensive psychotropic drug reference currently available that is designed for the psychologist. Psychotropic drugs represented in this volume include antidepressants, antimaniacs, antipsychotics, CNS stimulants, opiate analgesics, and sedative hypnotics.
Student's Dictionary of Psychology
This dictionary is designed to explain popular and basic psychological concepts that a student taking a college-level introductory psychology course might encounter.
Survey of Social Science. Psychology Series
This series is intended as a tool to provide the non-specialist with essential information on the basic concepts of psychology. It is an excellent place to gain an overview of topics of current and historical interest.
Locate professional organizations or academic departments in psychology and related disciplines with these sources. Use these sources to identify possibilities for funding research or graduate study. Be sure to check the directories section of the Psychology WWW Resources page.
Annual Register of Grant Support
The Annual Register contains a comprehensive listing of annual grant support, including study grants and fellowships aimed at graduate and post graduate levels.
Encyclopedia of Associations
This is a comprehensive source of detailed information concerning 22,000 nonprofit American membership organizations of national scope. This includes organizations in the psychology and psychiatry fields and related mental health disciplines.
Foundation Directory
This directory lists and describes the private and community grant making foundations in the United States. In the subject index, there are headings for psychiatry, psychology, and mental health.
DISSERTATION SOURCES
Locate dissertations on psychology topics with these reference sets. For a more in-depth description of these dissertation sources check out the Education Research Guide page.
Comprehensive Dissertation Index
This resource includes citations for most doctoral dissertations accepted in North America since 1861. It is an annual accumulation that indexes Dissertation Abstracts International by subject.
Dissertation Abstracts International
This index is a monthly compilation of abstracts or summaries of dissertations submitted to Bell & Howell Information and Learning by more than 500 international institutions. Author, keyword, and subject indexing are available for Dissertation Abstracts International. Request an online search for dissertations from 1993 to the present at the Library Services Desk.
With these sources, determine what tests are available for measuring particular attributes and age groups, locate evaluations of tests, and obtain ordering information for those that are currently in print.
ETS Test Collection Catalog
This set includes both unpublished research instruments and commercially-available tests and questionnaires owned by the test collection of the Educational Testing Service. Search for tests available in the ETS collection by using the ETS Test File locator.
Mental Measurements Yearbook
This series contains the most extensive coverage of published standardized tests commercially available in the English-speaking world. There is a guide to the use of this set located in the Reference area. To search for tests listed in Mental Measurements Yearbook use the ERIC/AE Test Locator.
Test Critiques
This set produces one volume a year containing approximately 100 test reviews annually. The indexing is not as extensive as Mental Measurements Yearbook, and the reviews are not as descriptive. To ensure complete coverage of any one test, consult both sources. To search for tests listed in Test Critiques use the ERIC/AE Test Locator.
These sources will provide guidance in conducting library or field research, in presenting papers and reports for class and in publishing research findings.
Clinician's Thesaurus:
A Guidebook for Wording Psychological Reports and Other Evaluations
This work is designed to assist users with the task of writing psychological
reports and psychiatric evaluations. It is aimed primarily at the practicing
professional. As a student, intern, or novice professional, users might also
find it a useful guide in preparing reports and evaluations.
DSM-IV: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
This manual is widely accepted in the United States and abroad as the common
language of mental health clinicians and researchers for communicating about
the disorders for which they have professional responsibility.
Handbook of Research and Quantitative Methods in Psychology: for Students
and Professionals
This source defines terms and concepts from research methodology, experimental
design, testing and scaling, and statistics in clear, objective language for
undergraduate and graduate students in psychology and the behavioral sciences.
Library Use: A Handbook for Psychology
This handbook is an introduction to library research for college students
in the field of psychology, concentrating on information sources available
in most college and university libraries. It provides an excellent overview
of information sources and library research methods.
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
This manual is the standard for proper form, style, and documentation required
in writing projects in the social sciences. To examine examples of how to
cite information from the Internet in American Psychological Association style
use the Citing
Sources page.
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