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Databases for Counseling

April 8, 2026 • 11:37 am

Counseling – Best Bets

  • Counseling and Therapy in Video
    Provides access to actual therapy sessions, re-enacted therapy sessions, and scripted sessions designed by counseling professionals to illustrate common issues and scenarios. More info
  • Education Database (ProQuest)
    Provides access to nearly 900 educational journals, including more than 600 titles in full text. More info
  • PsycINFO
    Contains over 3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations in psychology and related disciplines. More info
  • Social Science Database (ProQuest)
    Provides access to over 1,000 scholarly journal titles, with around 700 available in full text, across a wide range of social science disciplines. More info

Counseling – Also Useful

  • Academic Search Complete
    Provides full text for over 8,500 magazines and journals over a wide array of academic disciplines. More info
  • Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA)‎
    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. More info
  • Gender Studies Database
    Covers the full spectrum of gender-engaged scholarship; includes journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, government reports, dissertations, and other sources. More info
  • LGBTQ+ Source
    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. More info
  • ProQuest Central
    Multidisplinary database with access to nearly 20,000 journals, magazines, and newspapers. More info
  • PubMed (includes MEDLINE)
    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 Appalachian State University Libraries. Citations and abstracts in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems, and preclinical sciences. More info
  • Sage Knowledge
    Full text access to more than 200 encyclopedias and over 100 handbooks in the social sciences and related subjects. More info
  • Social Services Abstracts
    Indexes over 1,300+ serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, covering current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas. More info
  • Social Work Abstracts
    Coverage of more than 450 social work and human services journals. More info
  • Sociological Abstracts
    Indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines, providing abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800+ serials publications. More info
  • WorldCat (FirstSearch)
    Lets you search the holdings of thousands of libraries using precision search features, view detailed results, and link to University Libraries' holdings. More info

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Dusty Ross
Dusty Ross