UNT Dallas Library: Counseling & Therapy: Getting Started

About This Guide

Welcome to the Counseling & Therapy Research Guide!

This guide serves as a starting point for your research in counseling and therapy. Its intention is not to present an exhaustive inventory of all related resources, but rather to highlight essential materials available in the library, both in print and electronic formats.

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Use the menu to the left side of this guide to navigate to each page of information and resources.

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Best Bet Databases for Counseling & Therapy Research

Key Databases
Databases with Related Content

Behavioral and Mental Health Online This link opens in a new window
The database features applied training materials that help today's counseling students, faculty, and practitioners put theory into practice. The award-winning resources included in the channel offer more than 2,000 hours of training videos, conference sessions, and footage of actual therapy session and 100,000 pages of transcripts, client narratives, and reference works.
Mental Measurement Yearbook with Test in Print This link opens in a new window
Produced by the Buros Center for Testing at the University of Nebraska, this database provides a comprehensive guide to contemporary testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the series contains information for evaluating test products in psychology, education, business, and leadership.
PsycARTICLES (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
Full-text peer-reviewed articles published by the American Psychological Association and affiliated journals.
Psychology and Behavioral Science Collection This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods.
Psychotherapy.net This link opens in a new window
Psychotherapy.net allows users to watch master therapists conducting psychotherapy sessions. The database offers a library of over 300 training videos featuring the leading practitioners in the field. Also included are articles, interviews, blogs, and cartoons related to the psychotherapy field.
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
The largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. Produced by the American Psychological Association, it is an indispensable tool for the discovery of global scholarly research.

ERIC via Ebscohost This link opens in a new window
an authoritative database of indexed and full-text education literature and resources.
Gale OneFile: Psychology
Subject-specific database providing access to journals covering all fields of psychology such as abnormal, biological, cognitive, comparative, developmental, personality, quantitative, social, and all areas of applied psychology.
MEDLINE
Bibliographic database produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. The database contains millions of citations, derived from thousands of biomedical and life science journals, and indexed with Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®) from the NLM controlled vocabulary.
Medline Plus This link opens in a new window
Created by the United States National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE is an authoritative bibliographic database containing citations and abstracts for biomedical and health journals used by health care professionals, nurses, clinicians, and researchers.
Professional Development Collection This link opens in a new window
Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 520 high-quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full-text education journals in the world.
Psychology Database This link opens in a new window
Provides abstracts and indexing for key Psychology titles. Coverage ranges from behavioral, clinical, cognitive, developmental, experimental, industrial and social psychology, along with personality, psychobiology and psychometrics. Also a part of ProQuest Central.

Search Multiple Databases at Once

Major online database companies like Ebsco and ProQuest offer many diverse databases; you can, however, search all of their databases at once.

Ebsco EDS This link opens in a new window
Ebsco EDS provides users with a streamlined search of multiple databases through a single search box.
ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
Periodical resource that includes major subject areas, including Business, Health and Medical, Language and Literature, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, as well as core titles in the Performing and Visual Arts, History, Religion, Philosophy, and includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world (Access: Wall Street Journal and New York Times).