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- E-learning modules | Search help (Opens in a new browser window)
APA PsycInfo 
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APA PsycInfo(R), from the American Psychological Association, is the world's leading abstracting and indexing database in the behavioral and social sciences. It provides access to over 5 million bibliographic records (many with full text) for journal articles, books and book chapters, conference proceedings, dissertations, and more, including approximately 2,400 journals, spanning 600 years of coverage. Peer-reviewed materials curated by subject experts provide targeted, credible content coverage. Journal coverage list
Worldwide research from 50 countries, in 30 languages, is included. Twice-weekly updates ensure current, leading-edge coverage. AI / machine-learning research features are enabled to optimize the literature discovery experience.
Subject coverage includes:
- Applied psychology
- Educational psychology
- Developmental psychology
- Personality
- Lifespan
- Psychological and physical disorders
- And more: Psycho-behavioral aspects of arts, artificial intelligence, business, criminology/criminal justice, law, linguistics, medicine, neuroscience, pharmacology, political science, social work, sociology, and sports
APA PsycInfo help resources
Videos
- Searching APA PsycInfo (5:37) | Overview of search features and functionality
- Searching with the Thesaurus and Subjects (3:44) | Use controlled subject terms to optimize search precision and accuracy
- Finding Peer-Reviewed Empirical Studies (2:45) | Identify material assessed by expert reviewers
- Using the Methodology Limiter (5:36) | Capture content with specific study designs, including qualitative and quantitative research
APA PsycInfo LibGuides support site | In-depth help resources for students, faculty/instructors and librarians
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global: Humanities & Social Sciences Collection
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The ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global (PQDT)™ database is the world's most comprehensive curated collection of doctoral dissertations and Master's theses from around the world, providing over 5 million bibliographic citations and 2.7 million full-text works from thousands of universities. PQDT's global coverage includes material from 4,100 universities in 100 countries worldwide, in over 60 languages.
The IIRP Graduate School Library provides access to the PQDT Humanities & Social Sciences Collection, which contains bibliographic records -- and, in most cases, PDF full text -- of dissertations and theses from the 17th century to the present day, in these fields:
- Social sciences
- Education
- Law and legal studies
- Area, ethnic and gender studies
- History
- Philosophy and religion
- Literature and language
- Communication and information sciences
- Business
- Fine and performing arts
The official online repository of dissertations and theses for the U.S. Library of Congress, PQDT is updated weekly with new content; about 200,000 new items are added annually. It is a vital resource for for both students and established researchers to identify both archival and breakthrough university-level work, including:
- Emerging scholars in restorative practices and related fields
- Historic, and current trends and topics in research
- Most prolific institutions producing restorative practices-related academic work
PQDT e-learning modules
- Searching subjects (5:30) | Efficient searching for works on specific topics
- Searching titles and languages (3:00) | Search for works with known titles or title words, and works in specific languages
- Searching names (4:00) | Search for individual author, advisor or committee member names
- More PQDT e-learning modules | Información en Español
PQDT LibGuides support site | In-depth help resources for students, faculty/instructors and librarians
PQDT search field list (with descriptions and examples): HTML | Excel
PTSDpubs
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Formerly PILOTS, this database indexes worldwide research literature from 1871 to present on post-traumatic stress disorder and other psychological effects of trauma; it is produced by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center for PTSD.
Coverage is not limited to PTSD in military veterans; topics include traumatic stress and mental health sequelae, assessment, prevention, treatment, mental health services, public policy, and traumatized populations (including children and youth, transgenerational trauma, survivors of abuse, violence, and war, refugees, trafficked persons, etc.).
Subject coverage
- Post-traumatic stress disorder or acute stress disorder (with or without reference to the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5)).
- The assessment, description, prevention, or treatment of any psychiatric disorder, especially dissociative identity disorder (formerly called multiple personality disorder), other dissociative disorders, or borderline personality disorder, associated etiologically or epidemiologically with exposure to a traumatic event, or to an event experienced as traumatic by the population under discussion.
- The preparation or provision of mental health services to a traumatized population or a population at risk of experiencing traumatic events.
- Issues of professional ethics, scientific methodology, or public policy relating to traumatized populations.
Special features
- A custom PTSD- and trauma-focused online thesaurus to help create precise searches. PTSDpubs' unique thesaurus includes specific PTSD symptoms (e.g., hypervigilance) as well as terms such as PTSD DSM-5 and PTSD (ICD-11) to enable searching by diagnostic criteria.
- A detailed listing of tests and measures. Each PTSDpubs record lists all instruments used within the publication; searches can be limited to a specific test or measure.
- A comprehensive range of publication types, including journal articles, books, reports, newsletters, and dissertations.
- Cross-disciplinary coverage of all publications relevant to PTSD. PTSDpubs does not limit its coverage to selected journals, and tries to include all relevant articles.