Clinical Mental Health Counseling Research Guide
- Find Background Info
- Find Books and Films
- Find Articles
- Citing Sources
Find Background Info
Background sources, such as specialized encyclopedias and dictionaries, are an essential piece of the research process. They can help you:
- Gather information about your topic and understand the scope of the research.
- Locate reliable sources and clarify keywords.
- Pinpoint important authors, texts, ideas, and keywords about the research area.
Knowing what the primary phrases and concepts are will help you as you search through library databases and online sources.
Credo Reference
Credo Reference is a multi-publisher collection of high-quality reference titles covering everything from the arts to astronomy, law to literature, and science to Shakespeare. It contains a range of multimedia options including thousands of high-quality diagrams, photographs, maps, and audio files. Credo also includes several psychology and counseling books.
Psychology (Gale)
This database provides access to journal and magazine articles on psychology. It is a good starting place to get ideas for research since it includes a topic finder feature and information from both scholarly and popular sources.
Find Books and Films
Print and e-books are valuable sources for academic research. They can help you gain an overview of your topic and often contain in-depth information about the scholarship or history of research on a subject. Some books are written by single authors, while others include essays or chapters by multiple scholars within a discipline. Don’t let the length of books intimidate you because you don’t need to read them from cover to cover. Look at the table of contents and index to find the sections that are relevant to your work.
Find Books Using GriffinSearch
GriffinSearch is a good starting place if you are looking for books, journal articles, films, and other materials available in the library. In addition to searching the Giovale Library catalog for physical materials, GriffinSearch finds e-books and articles from several of our databases. To get started, search by keyword or type in the title of a book below:
PsycTherapy (EBSCO)
PsycTherapy (EBSCO) is a streaming video database of therapy demonstrations with hundreds
of videos showing various treatment approaches. APA PsycTherapy is intended for educational
purposes, specifically in clinical training and counselor education, and provides
clinicians, counselors, and trainees the opportunity to observe candid psychotherapy
videos featuring known therapists.
Search PsycTherapy (EBSCO)
Academic Videos Online (AVON)
Academic Videos Online (AVON) provides unlimited access to a comprehensive selection of videos curated for the educational experience.
WorldCat
WorldCat lets you search for books, articles, videos, and other materials available in libraries worldwide. If you are doing in-depth research on a topic and are considering requesting resources through Interlibrary Loan, WorldCat can help you discover resources that might not be in the Giovale Library collection.
Interlibrary Loan (ILL)
Interlibrary Loan is a service where patrons of one library can borrow and access materials like books and journal articles that are owned by another library.
Explore Interlibrary Loan Materials
Utah Academic Library Consortium
Giovale Library participates in the Utah Academic Library Consortium (UALC) and Westminster University students have reciprocal circulation privileges at UALC partner libraries. Each UALC library has different circulation policies, but all require a current, valid, legal photo identification and proof of current enrollment at Westminster. Some libraries may also require other verification methods, so you should contact the library you're interested in for details.
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Find Articles
The Giovale Library provides access to a number of subject databases that you can use to find journal articles on topics within a specific discipline or field of study. The databases listed below are most useful for finding research published in the field of psychology and mental health counseling.
APA PsycINFO (EBSCO)
APA PsycINFO contains psychology resources including citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations, and technical reports. It also contains resources about psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law.
Video: What is the PsycINFO Thesaurus?
Video: Sample APA PsycINFO Search Using the Thesaurus
APA PsycARTICLES (EBSCO)
The APA PsycARTICLES database contains the full text of articles from APA journals and selected EPF (Educational Publishing Foundation) journals, most from 1988 to the present.
Search APA PsycARTICLES (EBSCO)
ERIC (EBSCO)
Research in psychology often intersects with research in education. The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature. ERIC Document coverage includes peer-reviewed articles, conferences, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.
PubMed
PubMed is the NLM's premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems, and preclinical sciences. PubMed contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts from biomedical journals published in the U.S. and 70 other countries. Coverage is worldwide, but most records are from English-language sources or have English abstracts.
GriffinSearch
GriffinSearch is a good starting place if you are looking for books, journal articles, films, and other material available in the library. In addition to searching the Giovale Library catalog for physical materials, GriffinSearch finds e-books and articles from several of our databases.
Citing Sources
Citation Resources
Properly citing your sources shows that you’ve done research to become knowledgeable about your topic and helps you avoid plagiarism. Explore citation resources to learn how to correctly cite sources based on style.
Need help with your research?
Get in touch with:
Lizz Larson
Liaison Librarian for Psychology and Mental Health Counseling
801.832.2253
elarson@westminsteru.edu
Librarians are happy to answer questions via email, phone, or in-person.
Contact Lizz with a question or to schedule a research help appointment.
Faculty: Contact Lizz to suggest edits to this research guide.