Counseling Library Guide
Research Help
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Finding Books
Finding Articles
All About Behavioral and Mental Health Online + PsycINFO
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Librarian for Counseling
Emma Fernandez (she/her)
efernandez@stephens.edu
(573) 441-5129
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Finding Books
Resources
Listing of all eMO electronic books resulting from the subject search "counseling"
eMO Ebooks - Career Counseling
Listing of all eMO electronic books resulting from the keyword search "career counseling"
eMO Ebooks - School Counseling
Listing of all eMO electronic books resulting from the keyword search "school counseling"
Content type: books, video, and reference info. Search the traditional catalog for Stephens College books, videos, and more.
Content type: books. Search the MOBIUS Consortium catalog and request books be sent to Stephens for pickup. Books are generally ready to be picked up in two to three work days.
Physical Book Locations
Counseling books are located in the following sections (second floor of the Stephens Library):
BF - Human development
BF 173-175.5 - Psychoanalysis
BF 636-637 - Applied psychology
HF 5381 - Vocational guidance/career development
HQ 1 -2044 - Family, Marriage, Women
HT: Communities/classes/races
HV: Social pathology/social and public welfare
LB 1027.5 - 1027.8 - Student Guidance & Counseling
RC 475-489 - Therapeutics & Psychotherapy
Search Tips
Search the Stephens Library Catalog to find physical materials and eBooks held at Stephens Library. The MOBIUS Catalog is also a good option to broaden your search for print books to libraries across Missouri.
Try using the phrase “counseling” to get started, or use more specific terms for the field you’re researching.
Use the advanced search function and search for these phrases as subject terms to find materials about that term (rather than narrowing to a specific title).
Here are some other examples:
Therapy
Self-help
Rehabilitate
In addition, use the filters on the left hand side of the catalog to narrow or broaden your search.
Availability (Online vs. At The Library)
Found In (Subject, Title, Author, etc.)
Format (E-Book, Book/Print. DVD, etc.)
Language (English, Spanish, etc.)
Publish Date (use the sliding bar to create a timeline)
Place (U.S., Canada, etc.)
Search eMO Ebooks - Counseling, eMO Ebooks - Career Counseling and, eMO Ebooks - School Counseling by:
Finding Articles
Resources
Content types: articles. Covers a wide range of subjects and contains the full text of nearly 12,400 journals, including 10,900 peer-reviewed journals.
Behavioral and Mental Health Online
Content types: video, books, and documents. Contains more than 2,500 videos and almost 3,500 books, documents and transcripts.
Child Development & Adolescent Studies
Content types: articles, books, reports. Variety of current and historical literature related to the growth and development of children through age 21.
Content type: articles, books. Journal articles, chapters, books, dissertations, and reports related to behavioral science and mental health, with ninety-nine percent of the covered material peer-reviewed.
Content types: articles. Resources covering all areas related to abuse: family, emotional, sexual, physical, and more. Contains more than 77,000 records.
When searching these you will likely come across articles that are not immediately available. In such cases, choose to “Request It” and complete the process. Articles usually become available within one work day although it can take as many as five days. You can review your request history and make requests from scratch by using Interlibrary Loan.
Search Tips
Break your research question into essential key words and connect with AND.
exercise AND mental health
Use synonyms and connect them with OR
adolescents OR adolescence OR teens OR teenagers OR young adults
Use truncation (*) to get plurals and alternative endings.
educat* = educate, education, educating, educated, etc.
Put quotes around a term that’s a phrase to keep the words together.
“body image”
When you find a good article, look at the works cited or reference list at the end to help identify other useful resources on the same topic.
All About PsycINFO
Searching PsycINFO
PsycINFO indexes psychological research and its applications. Source types include peer-reviewed journals, books and book chapters, dissertations, conference proceedings, etc. It is produced by the American Psychological Association and is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health.
What’s in PsycINFO?
PsycINFO includes features such as First Posting for journal records ensuring access to the earliest publication of a journal article. It also includes books, book chapters, dissertations, and reports about psychology and related disciplines, including psychiatry, education, linguistics, neurosciences, pharmacology, and social work.
Subject coverage includes:
Applied psychology
Communication systems
Developmental psychology
Personality
Lifespan
Psychological and physical disorders.
Each record contains a bibliographic citation, abstract, index terms from the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, keywords, classification categories, population information, the geographical location of the research population, and cited references for journal articles, book chapters, and books.
The APA Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms allows researchers to search APA databases using a standard vocabulary.
You can search or browse for terms using the thesaurus and add them to your search. The thesaurus allows you to add more than one term and separate them using Boolean Operators. You can review scope notes and explode terms to expand your search.
Unique search options or fields are included on the Advanced Search page as different facets and look-ups. The facets make it easy for researchers to limit to specific populations, methodologies, and locate supplemental data.
The look-up options include location, classification, and test & measures.
Each Look-up provides a search and browse function and the ability to add multiple terms separated by Boolean Operators similar to the thesaurus.
PsycINFO allows you to refine your search by:
Date published
Language
Age of subject population (from infants to very old)
Methodology of research (e.g. qualitative vs. quantitative studies, systematic reviews, clinical trials)
Population (human or animal, male/female, inpatient/outpatient)
Geographic location
Click on "Thesaurus" in the top menu for a list of key terms that bring together related concepts.
All About Behavioral and Mental Health Online
Fundamental Topics Covered:
Behavioral and Mental Health Online is a fundamental resource for studying and teaching in the areas of behavioral and mental health.
What’s in Behavioral and Mental Health Online?
Clinical mental health demonstrations, video of real clinical mental health sessions, largest amount of DSM-5®/ICD-10 video content, documentaries on the human condition, psychotherapy transcripts, client narratives, reference works, clinical mental health textbooks and workbooks, psychological experiments and more.
Real therapy sessions and reenactments: Hundreds of therapy sessions cover a wide range of theories and skills and include diverse clients and presenting issues.
Training videos: Lectures and workshops focus on the latest research and evidence-based practices.
Transcripts: 6,000 transcripts from real-life therapy sessions give researchers unprecedented access to presenting conditions and treatment.
DSM-5®/ICD-10 content: The largest collection of DSM-5®/ICD-10 video content found anywhere, with assessments to gauge comprehension.
Clinical Mental Health
Marriage and Family
Counseling Theory
Addictions
School Counseling
Multicultural
Trauma
DSM-5®/ICD-10
Bipolar
Depression
Schizophrenia
Alzheimer’s Dementia
Suicide Assessment
Psychological Research and Study
Kohlberg’s Moral Development
Erikson’s Human Development
Human Motivation
Memory
Obedience
American Counseling Association - The American Counseling Association is a membership organization representing licensed professional counselors, counseling students, and other counseling professionals in the United States. It is the world's largest association exclusively representing professional counselors.