Finding articles

To find articles in journals, magazines, or newspapers, you will need to use one of the Library's print indexes or article databases. An index or article database will allow you to look for articles by title, by author, or by a few keywords that describe your topic. The databases most useful for research in counseling are:

CINAHL
http://proxy.lib.pdx.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.epnet.com/login.asp?profile=cin2
(Cummulated Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature)
This database provides coverage of the nursing and related therapies (occupational, speech hearing, physical) literature.

Education Full Text
http://proxy.lib.pdx.edu:2048/login?url=http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?prod=EDUFT
Citations and abstracts (and some full text) of articles from ~500 core journals for professionals and researchers in education and its various related fields; coverage from 1983- present.

ERIC (Ebscohost platform)
http://proxy.lib.pdx.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.epnet.com/login.asp?profile=education
THE primary database for education its related disciplines.

ERIC on the federal Dept of Ed. web site
http://www.eric.ed.gov

ERIC Thesaurus
http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/Home.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=Thesaurus&_nfls=false
ERIC Thesaurus online; can be helpful in discovering appropriate search terms.

Health and Psychosocial Instruments
http://proxy.lib.pdx.edu:2048/login?url=http://gateway.ovid.com/autologin.html
Journal articles discussing tests and measurements. An excellent database to identify a potential testing instrument.

Mental Measurements Yearbook
http://proxy.lib.pdx.edu:2048/login?url=http://spweb.silverplatter.com/c125753?
Basic information and critical reviews of commercially published testing instruments.

Professional Develoment Collection
http://proxy.lib.pdx.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.epnet.com/login.asp?profile=education
A full text educator/practitioner journals database. Provides full text of the journals published by the American Counseling Association. An Ebscohost database.

Psychological and Behavioral Sciences Collection
http://proxy.lib.pdx.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.epnet.com/login.asp?profile=psyc_beh
This database provides nearly 575 full text publications, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed titles. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.

PsycINFO
http://proxy.lib.pdx.edu:2048/login?url=http://gateway.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&D=psyh&PAGE=main
The psychology, psychiatry and human development literature.

 

Selected journals of interest in counseling:

Clearing House
Journal of Counseling and Development
Journal of Counseling Psychology
Journal of Multicultural Counseling & Development
Measurement & Evaluation in Counseling & Development
Professional School Counseling
School Psychology Review

 

Finding books

Search Portland State Library's catalog, Vikat for books, journals (not individual articles), videos, government information, music and other material owned by the Library. You may search by keywords, author, title or subject headings.

Browsing the library shelves by call number is another strategy for locating information on a topic; call numbers can help you get to the "right neighborhood" in the library stacks.

LB 1027.5	School Counseling
RC 321-571	Neurology and Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatry, Diseases of the Nervous System
RC 554 -569.5	Personality Disorders, Behavior Problems (including sexual problems, drug abuse, suicide, child abuse)
RF 110-320	Otology, Diseases of the Ear
RJ 496	Language, speech and hearing disorders and development
LC 3950-4806.5	Exceptional Children and Youth, Special Education
BF 712-724.85	Developmental Psychology
BF 721-723	Child Psychology
HD7255.5	Rehabilitation Counseling
HQ 767.8-792.2	Children, Child Development (including child rearing, child life, play, socialization, children's rights).
HV	Social Service
HV 701-1420.5	Social Service to Children
HV 873-887	Social Service to Destitute, Neglected, and Abandoned Children
HV 888-907	Social Service to Handicapped Children
HV 1421 -1441	Social Service to Young Adults, Youth, Teenagers
HV 1494 - 4013	Social Service to persons with specific disabilities

 

Subject headings allow you to search library catalogs for materials on a particular topic. Often subject heading searching can be more productive than searching by simple keywords. Listed here are some major subject headings of interest for research in counseling. Copies of the complete set of the Library of Congress Subject Headings are available at the 2nd floor Reference Desk.

community and school

counseling in elemenatry education

counseling in secondary education

education- parent participation

educational counseling

educational tests and measurements

family counseling

family psychotherapy

marriage counseling

rehabilitation -- counseling

school psychology

Topic summary

Encyclopedias, subject-specific dictionaries and other reference book provide excellent background/overview information on a topic; they can be an excellent place to begin research.

Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry
RC454 .C637 1995 | 5th Floor

Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders : DSM-IV-TR
RC455.2 .C4 D536 2000 | 2nd Floor (at Reference Desk)

Encyclopedia Of Disability And Rehabilitation
HV1568 .E53 1995 | 2nd Floor

Encyclopedia of Special Education : a Reference for the Education of the Handicapped and Other Exceptional Children and Adults (3 vols)
LC4007 .E53 2000 | 2nd Floor

Encyclopedia of Psychology (8 vols)
BF31 .E552 2000 | 2nd Floor

Handbook of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (7 vols)
RJ499.3 .H356 1997 | 2nd Floor
v. 1. Infants and preschoolers : development and syndromes -- v. 2. The grade school child : development and syndromes -- v. 3. Adolescence : development and syndromes -- v. 4. Varieties of development -- v. 5. Clinical assessment and intervention planning -- v. 6. Basic psychiatric science and treatment -- v. 7. Advances and new directions.

Handbook of Child Psychology 5e
BF721 .H242 1998 | 2nd Floor
v. 1. Theoretical models of human development / Richard M. Lerner, volume editor -- v. 2. Cognition, perception, and language / Deanna Kuhn and Robert S. Siegler, volume editors -- v. 3. Social, emotional, and personality development / Nancy Eisenberg, volume editor -- v. 4. Child psychology in practice / Irving E. Sigel and K. Ann Renninger, volume editors.

Learning Disabilities Sourcebook
LC4705 .L434 2003 | 2nd Floor location

Psychologists & Their Theories : For Students (2 vols)
BF109.A1 P72 2005 | Reference collection 2nd floor

 

Tests & Instruments

Mental Measurements Yearbook
Z5814.P8 B932 | 2nd Floor
Also available online: Mental Measurements Yearbook

Test Critiques
BF176 .T419 | 2nd Floor

Tests in print VI
Z5814.E9 T47 2002 | 2nd Floor

Finding people and organizations

American Counseling Association
http://www.counseling.org/

Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs http://www.counseling.org/cacrep/

American School Counselor Association
http://www.schoolcounselor.org/

International Association of Marriage and Family Counselors
http://www.iamfc.com/

 

Related information/read more about it

American Counseling Association Code of Ethics
http://www.counseling.org/resources/ethics.htm

Child & Family Web Guide
http://www.cfw.tufts.edu/

School Psychology Net
http://www.schoolpsychology.net/

 

Citing your sources & Style manuals

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
BF76.7 .P83 2001 | 2nd Floor

Citation Styles Handbook - APA
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/cws/wworkshop/writer_resources/citation_styles/apa/apa.htm
APA quick citation format guide from the UIUC writers workshop.

APA Citing Electronic Resources
http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html
Quick guide from APA describing formats for ciation of electronic resources.