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General Collection

The following subject headings are useful to find items:

Cognition
153/153.42
Learning, Psychology of 153.15
Communication 302 Memory 153.1
Counselling 158.3
Motivation
153.8
Developmental Psychology 155 Personality 155.2/155.26
Health Promotion 613.07 Psychology 150
Health Psychology 616.0019 Personality 338.4791
Human Behaviour 150 Psychopathology 616.89
Intelligence 153.9 Social Psychology 150/302

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Textbooks & Recommended Readings

Course texts and selected recommended readings are held in the restricted loan collection.
Please ask for them at the front service desk. Your tutors should provide you with a full list of readings.

Course texts - two hour loan. Selected recommended readings - three day loan.

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The Reference Collection

Online Reference books

gale reference suite(password required off campus)

Read the full reference book online:

 


Credo Reference suite(password required off campus)
Credo Reference (formerly XRefer Plus) is a completely customizable ready-reference solution for learners and librarians. Its full-text, aggregated content covers every major subject from the world's best publishers of reference. There are over 225 titles consisting of an aggregate of 2.9 million entries all interconnected by over 100,000,000 links.

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Britannica Encyclopedia
(password required off campus)
Britannica Online - a great all round general online encyclopedia with links to millions of articles, definitions, facts, etc.

 


Print Reference Collection

  • Located by the front service desk.
  • Contains materials such as dictionaries, encyclopaedias, directories and yearbook.
  • Provides concise, factual information which help you to define your subject area.
  • Check out other reference resources online by clicking on the hotlink: Reference Tools.

Many of the latest legislation and health policies are available on the Ministry of Health website.

Reference items in the print reference collection include:

Abnormal psychology - 8th ed. R616.89 DAV
ALAC information services update R362.292 ALC
Are you running out of information on alcohol? R362.292 ALC
The assessment and management of people with co-existing substance use and mental health disorders R362.2918 TOD
Concise encyclopedia of psychology - 2nd ed. R150.3 CON
Dictionary of counselling R158.303 FEL
Dictionary of psychiatry R616.8903 DIC
Dictionary of psychotherapy R616.8914 WAL
Directory of alcohol and drug treatment services in New Zealand - 2nd ed. R362.2928 DIR
DSM IV R616.89 DIA
DSM IV made easy R616.89 MOR
Encyclopedia of mental health R613.03 ENC
Handbook of family therapy R616.8915 HAN
Psychiatric dictionary - 3rd ed. R616.8903 HIN
Psychology basics R150.3 PSY
A student's dictionary of psychology - 4th ed. R150.3 HAY
Thesaurus of psychological index terms R150.3 THE
   

 


Journals

Journals provide current ideas and information on a subject. The catalogue states what volumes/issues we hold. It cannot tell you what articles are inside the journal. Use a database to find articles - see below.

Journals of interest held in print:

Journal of Accelerated Learning and Teaching 370.1523 JOU
Journal of Counseling Psychology 158.3 JOU
Journal of Humanistic Psychology 150.198 JOU
Journal of sport & exercise psychology 796.01 JOU
The journal of transpersonal psychology 616.8914 JOU
New Scientist 500 NEW
New Zealand Journal of Psychology 150 NEW
Psychology Today 150 PSY
Psychotherapy 646.8914 PSY
Psychotherapy in Australia 616.8914 PSY
The Sport Psychologist 796.01 SPO

We also have access to a number of online journal: Click on links to read online:

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy

British Journal of Guidance and Counselling

Journal for Specialists in Group Work

Journal of Couple & Relationship Therapy

Journal of Couples Therapy

Journal of Humanistic Psychology

Reflective practice

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Databases

A great way to find journal articles is to use an electronic database. Type keywords in the database search window.

Research databases

(off campus password required)


EbscoHost Suite of databases
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Click here to go to the full Choose database selection page, or click on individual databases below.

 

Academic Search Elite
Academic Search Elite offers full text for more than 2,000 serials, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. This multi-disciplinary database covers virtually every area of academic study. More than 100 journals have PDF images back to 1985. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCO host .

Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre
Combines Australia & New Zealand specific magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books to create the largest collection of regional full text content available to schools, public libraries, & academic institutions. .

Health Business Fulltext Elite
Provides full text for 420 periodicals detailing all aspects of health care administration and other non-clinical aspects of health care institution management.

Health Source: Consumer Edition
Search for information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. Updated on a daily basis.

MasterFILE Premier
Multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 1,700 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 202,164 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCO host.

Newspaper Source
Provides selected full text for nearly 30 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. Also contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers. This database is updated daily via EBSCO host.

Professional Development Collection
Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of 520 high quality education journals, including nearly 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 & Behavioral Sciences Collection
Provides nearly 575 full text publications, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed titles. Covers topics such as emotional & behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.

The Serials Directory
Provides access to the most up-to-date and accurate bibliographic information as well as current pricing structures for popular serials. This invaluable resource is made available via EBSCOhost®. It contains nearly 212,000 U.S. and international titles, including newspapers; data from nearly 108,235 publishers worldwide, including e-mail and Internet addresses; and Library of Congress and Dewey Decimal Classifications for every entry.Classifications for every entry.

 

Gale Cengage Suite of databases (formerly Thomson Gale) - Password required off campus for any of these:

Contemporary Women's Issues Database
Contemporary Women's Issues Database

Contemporary Women's Issues (CWI), a multidisciplinary, full-text database that brings together relevant content from mainstream periodicals, "gray" literature, and the alternative press -- with a focus on the critical issues and events that influence women's lives in more than 190 countries. Contemporary Women's Issues includes English-language titles from East and West Africa, Asia, and South and Central America, the Caribbean, North America and Europe. Contemporary Women's Issues compiles into a single collection, often overlooked and hard-to-find newsletters and NGO research reports to which most libraries do not subscribe, plus ephemeral literature from leading research institutes and grass roots organizations that is rarely indexed or cataloged. Contemporary Women's Issues records are indexed by 17 categories, including subject, region, article type and publication type. Basic searching on the Internet is easy -- using keywords, with options to search full-text, enhanced titles, author or book author. Advanced searching is done using convenient pull-down menus for selecting indexed terms.

General OneFile 1980 - JUN, 2008
A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily.

Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module 1980 - Jun 2008
Provides instant access to carefully compiled and trusted medical reference materials. Includes nearly 400 health/medical journals, hundreds of pamphlets, over 700 health-related videos from partner Healthology, Inc., and articles from 2,200 general interest publications in addition to a broad collection of Gale reference titles. Material contained in this Resource Center is intended for informational purposes only.

 

CareData
From the UK's Social Care Institue for Social Excellence, CareData supports management and practice through extensive abstracting of relevant social work and social care literature.

PsycArticles
This website provides free search access to 51 publications by the American Psychological Association. No full-text articles are available for free, so if you find articles that you would like, contact the library for an interlibrary loan.

 

Pubmed databases Medline on PubMed
PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 11 million Medline citations back to the mid-1960's. It includes links to many sites providing full-text articles and other resources.

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Websites  

American Psychological Association - www.apa.org
The American Psychological Association (APA) is a scientific and professional organization that represents the largest associations of psychologists worldwide.


Australian Psychological Association - www.psychology.org.au
The APS is the largest professional association for psychologists in Australia. The website is committed to advancing psychology as a discipline and profession.


Encyclopedia of Psychology - www.psychology.org
The Encyclopedia of Psychology is intended to facilitate browsing in any area of psychology. Includes original information generated by researchers & practitioners, as well as a database of websites providing information about scientific psychology.


New Zealand College of Clinical Psychologists - www.clinicalpsychology.org.nz


New Zealand Psychological Society - www.psychology.org.nz
The website of the NZ Psychological Society, provides information about the Society, membership, & the services & publications that it offers, as well as links to other psychology websites
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New Zealand Psychologists Board - www.regboards.co.nz/psychologists


PsychNet-UK - www.psychnet-uk.com
A mental health and psychology resource site with over 8000 resource links covering all areas of Psychology, Counselling, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy.

Psychology Today - www.psychologytoday.com
The online version of the journal Psychology Today. Search their archives for information about all different aspects of psychology.

Psychiatry24x7.com
Round the clock resources for psychiatry.


 

The Social Psychology Network - www.socialpsychology.org
The largest social psychology database on the Internet. In these pages, you'll find more than 5,000 links related to psychology.


Statistics New Zealand - www.statistics.govt.nz
Statistics New Zealand is New Zealand's national statistical office and is the country's major source of official statistics.

 

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