Counseling Psychology & Human Development

Counseling Psychology and Human Development at Prescott College includes a wide variety of courses and areas of study, including Best Practices in Equine-Assisted Learning; Human Growth and Development; Counseling Theories; Psychopathology: Diagnosis and Treatment Planning; Helping Relationships: Basic Counseling Skills; Group Work: Clinical Theory and Practice; Models of Leadership: Leadership through Differentiation; Organizing, Activism & Alliance Politics; Adolescent Psychology; Ecopsychology: Paradigms & Perspectives; and various Special Topics.

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias   |   Article Databases  |  eJournals  |   Web Resources   |   Citation Styles  |  Statistics |  Organizations

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

ebooks:

• The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion
• Comprehensive Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
• Dictionary of Psychology and Allied Sciences
• Encyclopedia of Elder Care: The Comprehensive Resource on Geriatric and Social Care
• Encyclopedia of Relationships across the Lifespan
• Handbook of Positive Psychology
• Handbook of Research Methods in Personality Psychology
• Historical Encyclopedia of School Psychology

On the Reference Shelf:

• APA Dictionary of Psychology
• The Concise Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science
• The Counseling Dictionary: Concise Definitions of Frequently Used Terms
• Encyclopedia of Archetypal Symbolism
• Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood: In History and Society
• Legal and Ethical Dictionary for Mental Health Professionals
• The Oxford Companion to the Mind

Article Databases

• EBSCOhost, including Academic Search Premier full-text articles in over 4,700 journals, including more than 3,700 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 8,250 journals in the collection.  Also includes the psychology databases PsycInfo and PsycArticles.
• GoogleScholar  "enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web".
• JStor a trusted archive of important scholarly journals. JSTOR is not a current issues database. Because of JSTOR's archival mission, there is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available in JSTOR. Prescott College subscribes to Arts & Sciences Collections I and IV, Biological Sciences Collection, and Language & Literature Collection.

• ProQuest, including Research Library, Dissertations & Theses provides one-stop access to a wide range of popular academic subjects. The database includes more than 3,820 titles—over 2,550 in full text—from 1971 forward.  Also includes PILOTS, a specialized PTSD database.

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eJournals  

full text, academic content 

• Advanced in Cognitive Psychology
• Annual Review of Critical Psychology
• Behavior and Social Issues
• Counseling Psychologist
• Ecopsychology
• Forum: Qualitative Social Research
• Frontiers in Psychology
• International Journal of Wellbeing
• Journal of Jungian Scholarly Studies

More e-journal recommendations can be found at the Directory of Open Access Journals.

Web Resources 

• Buros Institute of Mental Measurements Online test reviews (NOTE: Graduate students may contact test publishers for actual tests)
• FAQ/ Finding Information about Psychological Tests from APA
• Mental Health from Medline Plus

• Science Daily > Psychology News

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 Citation Styles  

Handouts provide help in writing style, formatting your paper, and citing your sources, both in-text and in the References/Bibliography section.   

• APA  The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association Style, 6th edition

Organizations

• Arizona Board of Behavioral Health
• American Counseling Association
• American Psychological Association
• Mental Health America
• National Association of Social Work
• National Center for PTSD
• National Institute of Mental Health
• National Institute on Drug Abuse

Statistics

• Center for Disease Control & Prevention

Contact a Librarian!  

Michaela Willi Hooper 928-350-1307

Rich Lewis 928-350-1301