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Encyclopedia of Counseling ("Purple Book") by Howard Rosenthal
With more questions and answers than any other edition, the Encyclopedia of Counseling, Fourth Edition, is still the only book you need to pass the NCE, CPCE, and other counseling exams. Every chapter has new and updated material and is still written in Dr. Rosenthal's lively, user-friendly style counselors know and love. The book's new and improved coverage incorporates a range of vital topics, including social media, group work in career counseling, private practice and nonprofit work, addictions, neurocounseling, research trends, the DSM-5, the new ACA and NBCC codes of ethics, and much, much more.

APA PsycInfo This link opens in a new window
The premiere database for the fields of psychology, counseling, and other mental health-related fields. Searches abstracts from articles, books, book chapters, journals, dissertations, and other sources. PsycINFO Quick Reference Guide
ERIC (via EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Our main education database, ERIC searches an enormous collection of journals, book chapters, reports, and other research in education and related fields.
ProQuest Psychology Database This link opens in a new window
Covers a wide range of topics, including behavioral, clinical, cognitive, developmental, experimental, industrial, and social psychology, along with personality, psychobiology and psychometrics. Includes journals and magazines, as well as dissertations, grey literature, and more.
Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science) This link opens in a new window
Searches over 1,700 journals in social sciences disciplines including anthropology, communications, history, law, management, political science, psychology, sociology, and women's studies. It provides bibliographic data, author abstracts, and cited references. Social Sciences Citation Index is most useful for searching for articles that cite a known author or work. Citation searching also allows a researcher to use a given work as a subject term in order to identify more recent articles about the same topic.

Other Databases Useful in Counseling Research

Communication and Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
This full-text database covers more than 500 communication and media journals as well as journals from related fields.
Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Provides citations and abstracts to articles published in some 2300 journals in sociology, social welfare, and social policy, as well as other related topics in the social and behavioral sciences. Also includes citations to some books and many dissertations.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
PubMed provides access to MEDLINE, a database of citations covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and preclinical sciences. Other services within PubMed include the Journal Browser, MeSH (Medical Subject Heading) Browser, Citation Matcher, and Clinical Queries. A user-friendly online tutorial is available at the site. PubMed also provides access to molecular biology databases in the National Center for Biotechnology Information s (NCBI) Entrez retrieval system with components for searching DNA and protein sequences, 3-D protein structure data, population study data sets, and assemblies of complete genomes. Coverage: 1946-

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Subjects: Counseling & Human Services, Education, Social Sciences - General