Databases for Counseling

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Provides access to actual therapy sessions, re-enacted therapy sessions, and scripted sessions designed by counseling professionals to illustrate common issues and scenarios.
Provides access to nearly 900 educational journals, including more than 600 titles in full text.
PsycINFO, from the American Psychological Association, contains over 3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations
Social Science Database provides access to over 1,000 scholarly journal titles, with around 700 available in full text

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Provides full text for over 8,500 magazines and journals over a wide array of academic disciplines.
ASSIA is designed to serve the information needs of the caring professions, including practitioners, researchers, and students in healthcare, social services, education, and related areas.
Covers the full spectrum of gender-engaged scholarship; includes journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, government reports, dissertations, and other sources.
Full text access to over 130 journals, indexing for 200 more, as well as access to more than 170 full-text monographs/books on LGBTQ+ topics.
Multidisplinary database with access to nearly 20,000 journals, magazines, and newspapers
Citations and abstracts in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems, and preclinical sciences
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This resource is freely available from the Internet. The Linkout feature, which is marked with an icon, provides access to the full-text of journals subscribed to by the Appalachian State University Library.
Sage Knowledge provides full text access to more than 200 social science encyclopedias and over 100 handbooks
Part of Web of Science, the Social Sciences Citation Index provides indexing for more than 1,950 journals across 50 social sciences disciplines
Social Services Abstracts indexes over 1,300+ serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews
Coverage of more than 450 social work and human services journals
Sociological Abstracts indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines
Over 50 million library catalog records from libraries throughout the world