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Counseling and Therapy in Video
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Streaming videos, over 700, many with teaching and discussion guides, from therapy sessions, training videos, and reenactments conducted by renowned counseling professionals, for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling.
Ethnographic Video Online
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Streaming classic and contemporary ethnographies, documentaries and shorts from every continent as well as full text transcripts, interviews, field notes, and study guides covering human culture and behavior, including culture and cultural change, kinship and family, economic systems and globalization, gender and sexuality, religion and ritual, and language and communication. NOTE: The library only owns the videos in volume I of the collection.

Journals

From the library homepage, click on the Journals tab above the search box and type in the name of a specific journal in the box. The results will indicate if the library provides online access or print access to the journal. If neither, you will need to request articles via Interlibrary Loan.

Suggested Social Work Journals to Browse

Affilia, Australian Social Work, British Journal of Social Work, Child & Family Social Work, Children & Schools, Children & Society, Children & Youth Services Review, Clinical Social Work Journal, Health & Social Work, Human Service Organizations Management Leadership & Governance, Journal of Community Psychology, Journal of Social Policy, Research on Social Work Practice, Social Policy & Administration, Social Service Review, Social Work, Social Work Research

Full Text Databases

Use your NetID and password to access library databases off campus.

Cochrane Library
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Full text independent evidence, including systematic reviews, clinical trials, technology assessments, economic evaluations, individual clinical trials, and more from the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), Cochrane Clinical Answers, as well as special collections on specific healthcare topics.
EBSCO Multiple Databases Search
Search all 42 EBSCO databases licensed by the library at once or select particular databases to include in a search.
Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print
Full text evaluation information on over 3,000 contemporary test instruments in psychology, education, business and leadership. Includes all previous editions of the yearbook dating back to 1938 and Tests in Print, an index to commercially available tests currently in print in the English language. Produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements.
PsycArticles
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Full text journals in psychology published by the American Psychological Association and affiliated journals, most from the initial journal publication dates (as early as 1894)-present.
Psychiatry Online
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Full text of the complete DSM-5 psychiatric reference, as well as all previous editions of the DSM, journals, textbooks, practice guidelines, self-assessment tools, and medication handouts published by the American Psychiatric Association.

Indexes

PsycINFO
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Index to professional and scholarly journals, chapters, books, reports, theses, and dissertations published internationally in psychology and related disciplines such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work, from 1967-present. Produced by the American Psychological Association.
PubMed
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Indexes MEDLINE, a database of scholarly journal articles in the life sciences with a focus on biomedicine, and additional life science journals and online books. Fields include behavioral sciences, chemical sciences, and bioengineering. Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. **Note: PubMed is live with a new interface as of mid-May 2020. Go to this link to learn more about the new web experience.
Social Services Abstracts
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Index to over 1,300 serials, abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. Coverage is 1979-present.
Sociological Abstracts
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Index to international journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers, and working papers of sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences, includes the Social Services Abstracts database. Coverage is 1952-present.
Web of Science
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Indexes the world's leading peer reviewed journal literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities and provides searching of cited references, from 1900-present.

Dissertations and Theses

Dissertations & Theses Global, ProQuest
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Index to dissertations and theses from over 3,000 institutions in 88 countries. Full text coverage spans from 1743-present, with citation coverage dating back to 1637.

ScholarWorks
UM's institutional open access repository; includes all student theses, dissertations, and professional papers.

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