Educational and counselling psychology
Legend
- McGill users only
- Open access resource
- Free resource
- In-library-use only
- Catalogue record
Sources for Background Information
Dictionaries, Encyclopedias
- International Encyclopedia of Education
Detailed overviews of important concepts and areas of research in the field of education. A great place to start your research! - Blackwell Reference Online
Includes the Handbook of Education and Human Development, the Handbook of Early Childhood Development, the Handbook of Research Methods in Clinical Psychology, and many more. - Concise Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences
- Dictionary of Psychology (Oxford)
- Encyclopedia of Psychotherapy
- Encyclopedia of the Human Brain
- International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences
- Oxford Bibliographies: Psychology: authoritative annotated bibliographies on key topics in psychology
- Encyclopedia.com
- Wikipedia
Handbooks, Manuals, and Tests
- Handbook of Psychology
- Steven's Handbook of Experimental Psychology
- DSM-5 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - Fifth Edition
- DSM-IV-TR Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - Fourth Edition
- Mental Measurements Yearbook
(OvidSP) contains fulltext information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas as included in the printed Mental Measurements Yearbooks. Searches the 9th to 17th Yearbooks (July 2010). - McGill Library guide to finding instruments, measures, scales & tests
- PsycTESTS provides access to complete psychological tests, measures, scales, and other assessments
- PsycTHERAPY - database of streaming videos of psychotherapy demonstrations
- Counseling and Therapy in Video - online collectionof streaming and downloadable videos with searchable transcripts. Includes filmed footage of actual and re-enacted therapy sessions, documentaries, lectures and more
Searching the Library Catalogue
Use the basic word(s) anywhere or advanced keyword search in the library catalogue. You can search using words like - Canada, Canad?, psycholog?, etc.
Search tips
| Truncation symbol: | ? | e.g. psycholog? will retrieve catalogue records containing the words psychology, psychological, psychologists, etc. |
| Phrase searching: | "___" | e.g. "United Nations" will retrieve catalogue records containing the phrase United Nations |
| Boolean operators: | (), AND, OR, NOT default: AND |
e.g. psychology AND (Canada OR "United States") will retrieve catalogue records containing the word psychology AND either Canada OR the phrase United States |
Core and Additional Databases
Core databases
- PsycINFO
(OvidSP, 1887-) key database for psychology. Includes citations to professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines, including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, pharmacology, physiology and linguistics - PsycArticles
(1988-) full-text database of articles in journals published by the American Psychological Association (including APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber). Also includes APA handbooks and psychological tests and measurements - Education Full Text (EBSCO)
ERIC is a key database for education, with journal articles and other education-related material such as books and reports. It is available in three interfaces (the content is identical):
Additional Databases
- Campbell Library of Systematic Reviews
Includes protocols and abstracts of peer-reviewed sources of evidence of the effectiveness of social and behavioural interventions in education, criminal justice and social welfare - MEDLINE
(Ovid, 1966-) widely recognized as the premier source for bibliographic and abstract coverage of biomedical literature. - Annual Review of Psychology
critically reviews significant primary research literature in the field - Scopus
multidisciplinary citation index of journal articles in science, social science, and humanities - ScienceDirect: Psychology Subject Area
- Wiley InterScience: Psychology
- ProQuest Research Library
multidisciplinary database that covers magazine and news articles as well as scholarly articles and books - Web of Science
multidisciplinary database and important resource for citation searching - Health & Psychosocial Instruments
(OvidSP) comprehensive bibliographic coverage of a wide variety of evaluation and measurement tools for health and psychosocial studies, for practitioners, educators, researchers, and students - Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (ProQuest)
Indexes journal articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations and working papers in theoretical and applied linguistics, psycholinguistics, and language research - Autism Data
Free database that lists over 24,000 research papers, books, articles, videos and other materials related to autism spectrum disorders
Selected Internet Sites
Accessible to anyone with an Internet connection.
- McGill Educational and Counselling Psychology Department
- Core Psychology Journals database - listing of key journals in the field. Can be sorted by subject area and rank. Maintained by the Education & Behavioral Sciences Section of the Association of College & Research Libraries
- Psychology Virtual Library
directory of useful links to journals, book publishers, psychology departments, and more - American Psychological Association
- Canadian Psychology Association
- APPIC - Association of Psychology Postdoctoral & Internship Centers
- Classics in the History of Psychology
full texts of historically significant documents from the scholarly literature of psychology and allied disciplines. Includes over 25 books and about 200 articles and chapters online as well as links to 200 works posted at other sites - AlleyDog.com
includes a glossary, information about graduate programs, and more - Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching
Other Resources
Related subject guides
- Education [General]
- Physical Education and Kinesiology
- Education in the Health Sciences
- Finding instruments, measures, scales & tests
Citation Guides
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