Resources of Note for PsyD Students
In addition to PsycINFO/PsycArticles and the other content that can be found using OneSearch, here are some specialty resources, that tend to take a clinical approach. PsycINFO includes a detailed thesaurus of related terms that can be helpful at the start of a project to identify professional jargon that will help with searches in many different databases.
Resources specifically for the PsyD program
- DSM-V: The library has the DSM-V and related works in Psychiatry Online. DSM-V is in print in the Reference Collection behind the Service Desk, RC455.2.C4D55 2013 (also SCID-5 clinician books right next to it). Older DSMs are in the Stacks.
- psychotherapy.net - clinical psych practice video collection, subset selected by your faculty
Videos: Proquest Academic Video Online collection has many clinical psych videos
Other databases
Various resources purchased for the new medical program have substantial psychology/psychiatry content. Many of these have a diagnosis/disorder focus as the most useful starting point. Because they are mostly intended for MDs, look for "psychiatry" as the clinical area in addition to "psychotherapy".
- Health and Psychosocial Instruments - information about behavioral assessment tools
- CCOHS: Academic Support Program - Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety - has extensive "mental health" health and safety fact sheets
- AccessMedicine (McGraw-Hill) - textbooks, videos, patient education including several relating to psychiatry and psychotherapy
- DynaMed - provides "clinical decision support" documents; includes information about psychiatric disorders
- Embase - citation database for systematic reviews, drug safety monitoring and evidence-based research and practice; Emtree tree of subject terms includes "mental disease"
- JAMAEvidence - Evidence-based practice research summaries, also indexes all of the McGraw-Hill textbooks
- JBI Evidence - Evidence-based practice research summaries
- Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - Evidence-based practice research summaries
- StatPearls - key concepts and theories with citations to seminal works in psych therapy topics
- TRIP Database - clinical search engine with evidence focus - indexes international government publications in addition to journal articles
- Stat!Ref - major medical handbooks like Merck as well as citations to journal articles with an evidence quality evaluation (with links to PubMed which will get you to the full text)
Library/Research Related Services
Off-campus - be sure to use at least one of the recommended browser tools for dealing with paywalls
Google Scholar - learn the specific configuration steps to work with UPEI
Interlibrary Loan service - can also be used to get a PDF of a single article or book chapter from the library's print collections, for your convenience
CURBA program allows you to borrow directly from other participating Canadian libraries. Get the card from us BEFORE you leave the Island!
Search hedges (lists of terms ready for you to add to your search for specific concepts):
PsycINFO: treatment/therapy/interventions
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