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Selected Reference Books

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  • Concise Encyclopedia of Special Education
    		•  Ref LC 4007 E53 2002 (v.1-3)
  • Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR)
    		•  Ref RC 455.2 C4 D536 2000
  • The Dictionary of Psychology
    		•  Ref BF 31 C72 1999
  • Dictionary of Race, Ethnicity, & Culture
    		•  Ref GN 496 D53 2003
  • Dictionary of the Social Sciences
    		•  Ref H 41 D53 2002
  • Encyclopedia of Abortion in the United States
    		•  Ref HQ 767.5 U5 P35 2002
  • The Encyclopedia of Adoption
    		•  Ref HV 875.55 A28 2000
  • The Encyclopedia of Aging
    		•  Ref HQ 1061 E53 2001 (v.1-2)
  • The Encyclopedia of Aging
    		•  Ref HQ 1061 E534 2002 (v.1-4)
  • Encyclopedia of Child Abuse
    		•  Ref HV 6626.5 C57 2001
  • Encyclopedia of Communication and Information
    		• Ref P 87.5 E53 2002 (v.1-3)
  • Encyclopedia of Crime & Justice
    		• Ref HV 6017 E52 2002 (v.1-4)
  • Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior
    		•  Ref HV 5804 E53 2001 (v.1-4)
  • Encyclopedia of Human Behavior
    		•  Ref BF 31 E5 1994 (v.1-4)
  • Encyclopedia of Human Development
    		•  Ref HM 626 E53 2006 (v.1-3)
  • The Encyclopedia of Human Development and Education
    		•  Ref BF 713 .E65 1990
  • The Encyclopedia of Mental Health
    		•  Ref RC 437 K34 2001
  • The Encyclopedia of Obesity and Eating Disorders
    		•  Ref RC 552 E18 C37 2000
  • The Encyclopedia of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Psychoanalysis
    		•  Ref RC 437 E49 1996
  • Encyclopedia of Psychology
    		•  Ref BF 31 E52 2000 (v.1-8)
  • Encyclopedia of Sex
    		•  Ref HQ 9 E54 2000
  • Encyclopedia of Terrorism
    		•  Ref HV 6431 K883 2003
  • The Encyclopedia of Understanding Alcohol and Other Drugs
    		•  Ref HV 5017 O37 1999 (v.1-2)
  • Encyclopedia of Women and Gender: Sex Similarities and Differences and the Impact of Society on Gender
    		•  Ref HQ 1115 E43 2001 (v.1-2)
  • The Freud Encyclopedia: Theory, Therapy, and Culture
    		•  Ref BF 173 F6176 2002
  • Gay Histories and Cultures
    		•  Ref HQ 75.13 G37 2000
  • Girlhood in America: An Encyclopedia
    		•  Ref HQ 777 G5745 2001 (v.1-2)
  • Graduate Study in Psychology
    		• Ref BF 77 G73
  • Handbook of Assessment Methods for Eating Behaviors and Weight-Related Problems
    		•  Ref RC 552 E18 H357 1995
  • Handbook of Sexuality-Related Measures
    		•  Ref HQ 60 H36 1998
  • The International Encyclopedia of Sexuality
    		•  Ref HQ 21 I68 1997 (v.1-4)
  • Lesbian Histories and Cultures
    		•  Ref HQ 75.5 L4395 2000
  • Measures for Clinical Practice: A Sourcebook
    		•  Ref BF 176 C66 2000 (v.1-2)
  • Measures of Personality and Social Psychological Attitudes
    		•  Ref BF 698.4 M38 1990
  • The Mental Health Diagnostic Desk Reference
    		•  Ref RC 455.2 C4 M86 2000
  • The Oxford Companion to the Body
    		• Ref QM 7 O96 2001
  • The Oxford Companion to the Mind
    		•  Ref BF 31 .O94 1987
  • The Penguin Dictionary of Psychology
    		•  Ref BF 31 R43 2001
  • Personality
    		•  Ref BF 698.5 B87
  • Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed.)
    		•  Ready Ref BF 76.7 P83 2001
  • Sourcebook on Violence Against Women
    		•  Ref HV 6250.4 W65 S68 2001
  • Stevens Handbook of Experimental Psychology
    		•  Ref BF 181 .H336 1988
  • Tests: A Comprehensive Reference for Assessments in Psychology, Education, and Business
    		•  Ref BF 176 T43 1991
  • Women in Psychology
    		• Ref BF 109 A1 W65 1990

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    Suggested Subject Headings and Location of Books in Our Library

    Search the Library Catalog by keyword, subject, title, or author. Edens Library offers books and other materials on a variety of Psychology subjects, including:
    Adolescent psychology
    Art therapy
    Child psychology
    Clinical psychology
    Cognition
    Consciousness
    Counseling
    Dance therapy
    Emotions
    Feminist psychology
    Freud, Sigmund
    Gestalt psychology
    Individuality    		 Maturation
    Mental Health
    Music therapy
    Perception
    Personality
    Play therapy
    Psychoanalysis
    Psychological tests
    Psychology
    Psychology, Pathological
    Stress (Psychology)
    Women -- Mental Health
    Women -- Psychology

    ...Or, you can browse the following sections in the library's General Collection and Reference areas:

    BF -- Psychology, Parapsychology, Occultism
    H -- Social Sciences (General)
    HQ -- Family, Marriage, Women
    HT -- Communities, Classes, Races
    HV -- Social Pathology, Social Service, Criminology
    QM -- Human Anatomy
    R -- Medicine (General)
    RC -- Internal Medicine

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    Databases for Research

    *For additional databases, see the Databases for Research page.
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    Academic Search Premier
    Collegiate Discus

    On-Campus | Remote Access     		"The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier contains indexing for over 8,000 publications, with full text for more than 4,450 of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles."
    Expanded Academic ASAP
    DISCUS - South Carolina's Virtual Library

    On-Campus | Remote Access

    For college-level and adult researchers and advanced high school students
    (1980 - present)

    * Comprehensive periodical database covering all academic disciplines
    * Millions of full-text articles from 2000+ scholarly, refereed and professional journals and selected general interest magazines
    * Indexing of additional professional and general periodicals

    Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
    Collegiate Discus

    On-Campus | Remote Access
    "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. Nearly every full text title included in this database is indexed in PsycINFO. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost."
    SocINDEX with Full-Text

    On-Campus | Remote Access     		"SocINDEX with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. The database features more than 1,910,000 records with subject headings from a 19,300 term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 397 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1908, and 150 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for more than 720 books and monographs, and full text for 6,743 conference papers."
    Academic OneFile
    DISCUS - South Carolina's Virtual Library

    On-Campus | Remote Access
  • Articles from 8,000+ peer-reviewed journals and reference sources, the majority in full-text, covering the disciplines of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and more
  • Full-text New York Times content from 1995 to the present
  • Podcasts and transcripts from National Public Radio (NPR), Cable News Network (CNN), and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
  • Updated daily

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    Communication & Mass Media Complete

    On-Campus | Remote Access     		"Communication & Mass Media Complete provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. CMMC incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study to create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth encompassing the breadth of the communication discipline. CMMC offers cover-to-cover ("core") indexing and abstracts for over 390 journals, and selected ("priority") coverage of 200 more, for a combined coverage of nearly 600 titles. Furthermore, this database includes full text for 285 journals."
    LexisNexis Academic


    On-Campus | Remote Access
  • Provides access to more than 6,000 news, business, and legal sources
  • Offers full-text of newspaper, magazine, journal, and wire service articles; television and radio broadcast transcripts; blog postings and other Web publications; biographical information; foreign language news publications; law reviews; federal and state cases and codes; Canadian and European Union court cases and legislation; and patents
  • Also includes LexisNexis Company Dossier; company profiles; SEC filings; country profiles; and Shepard's Citations service for federal and state court cases going back to 1789

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    Liebert Online
    Collegiate Discus

    On-Campus | Remote Access
    "This service delivers electronic access to peer-reviewed journals published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. This critical mass of content exceeds 28,000 papers from more than fifty-five authoritative journals, all full-text searchable and linked to external bibliographic databases. Liebert Online is universally acknowledged for establishing authoritative peer-reviewed journals in the most promising areas of biotechnology, biomedical research/life sciences, clinical medicine and surgery, and law."
    Oxford African American Studies Center

    On-Campus | Remote Access     		"The Oxford African American Studies Center (AASC) provides students, scholars and librarians with online access to the finest reference resources in African American studies. AASC features the new, three-volume Encyclopedia of African American History 1619-1895, the three-volume Black Women in America, and the highly acclaimed Africana, a five-volume history of the African and African American experience. The Center also includes content from the African American National Biography project and the Encyclopedia of African American Art and Architecture. In addition to these major reference works, AASC offers other key resources from Oxford's reference program, including the Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature."
    SIRS Knowledge Source
    DISCUS - South Carolina's Virtual Library

    On-Campus | Not available remotely

    For advanced middle school students through adults

    * Articles, images, reference information, Web sites and more on all subjects
    * Articles selected from 2,500+ U.S. and international magazines, newspapers, government publications and reference sources
    * News, current events and organized links to evaluated Web sites
    * Includes special features on - literature, terrorism and other topics
    * Interactive textbook on citizenship with teacher resources
    * Images, maps, country profiles, primary sources and Supreme Court decisions

    *This database is only available on the Columbia College campus.


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    Periodicals (Journals, Magazines, Newspapers)

    The following periodicals, held by Edens Library, are excellent resources for exploring current topics in Psychology. Check the Library Catalog for holdings.

    American Journal of Dance Therapy
    Journal of Family Issues
    Journal of Marital & Family Therapy
    Journal of Marriage and the Family
    Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare
    Omega: Journal of Death and Dying
    Perceptual & Motor Skills    		 Psychological Reports
    Psychology
    Psychology in the Schools
    Psychology of Women Quarterly
    Psychology Today
    Social Psychology Quarterly

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    Recommended Internet Sites for Psychology

  • General
  • Subject-Specific
  • Tests and Measures
  • Organizations
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    General
    Current Topics in Psychology
    Directory of reference collections, articles, websites, and research tools
    Encyclopedia of Psychology
    Library Research in Psychology: Finding It Easily (APA)
    Psych Central: Mental Health & Psychology Resources Online
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    Subject-Specific
    Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology (AAASP)
    Exercise and Sport Psychology (APA Division 47)
    Mental Help Net (MHN)
    Award-winning guide to mental health, psychology, & psychiatry online
    The Personality Project (Northwestern Univ.)
    "These pages are meant to guide those interested in personality theory and research to the current personality research literature."
    Social Gerontology & the Aging Revolution (Trinity Univ., San Antonio, TX)
    The Whole Brain Atlas (Harvard Univ.)
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    Tests and Measures
    Keirsey Temperament and Character Web Site
    Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
    "The purpose of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) personality inventory is to make the theory of psychological types described by C.G. Jung understandable and useful in people's lives."
    Test Reviews Online (Buros Institute of Mental Measurements: Center for Testing)
    Categories included are: Behavior Assessment, Developmental, Intelligence and General Aptitude, Neuropsychological, Personality, Sensory-Motor, and Vocations
    Thomas Kilman Conflict Mode Inventory (TKI)
    "The TKI has been the leading instrument used to assess and learn about different conflict-handling styles and how these affect personal and group dynamics. The TKI identifies our preferred conflict-handling style or mode and provides specific information about how we can use all five modes - avoiding, competing, accommodating, compromising, and collaborating - effectively."
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    Organizations
    American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA)
    The American Psychological Association
    The American Psychological Society (APS)
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    Return to the Sites by Subject index
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    Date: 1/24/07
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