Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI)

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HaPI is an Essential Collection of Information on Behavioral Measurement Instruments.

Produced by Behavioral Measurement Database Services, this comprehensive bibliographic database is abstracted from hundreds of leading journals covering health sciences and psychosocial sciences. It also provides information about behavioral measurement instruments, including those from Industrial Organizational Behavior and Education.

A Rich Resource with Extensive Coverage

Encompassing nearly 190,000 records, HaPI is comprised of bibliographic information for peer-reviewed scholarly journals, books, technical reports, and test publishers’ catalogs. The essential resource for researchers, students, clinicians and more, HaPI features coverage of more than 80 unique behavioral measurement tools and instruments which are used across professions and disciplines, including nursing, public health, psychology, social work, communication, sociology, and organizational behavior or human resources.

Updated on a quarterly basis, HaPI is also continuously adding new records, further supplementing researchers with up-to-date, high-quality information.

Provides a Detailed Record for Every Entry

Each record within HaPI includes the following detailed information: title, acronym, authors, language, index terms and references. Some records also contain abstracts, sample items, number of questions, subscales, reliability and other information.

PsycTESTS

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 January 2015 Database of the Month

Updated monthly, PsycTESTS includes a wide variety of test types: achievement and aptitude tests, intelligence tests, tests of cognitive functioning, occupational tests, personality tests, and more. These include previously unpublished measures, tests developed by psychologists for which no source document has been located, and information about published tests available from commercial publishers. All records in PsycTESTS include fields for validity and reliability data (when available), test purpose, construct, format, number of items, and more.

For current information, including the number of records in the database and other details, please view the PsycTESTS Fact Sheet.

Psychological Experiments Online

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October 2014 Database of the Month

Psychological Experiments Online is a multimedia online resource that synthesizes the most important psychological experiments of the 20th and 21st centuries. The collection pairs  audio and video recordings of the original experiments (when existent) with primary-source documents such as Stanley Milgram’s films and personal papers and Philip Zimbardo’s detailed notes from the Stanford Prison experiment along with the film, Quiet Rage. Also find exclusive and hard-to-find materials including notes from experiment participants, journal articles, books, field notes, letters penned by the lead psychologist, videos of modern-day replications, and modifications to the original experiments. Continue reading

ICPSR – Inter-University Consortium For Political And Social Science

March 2013 Database of the Month

Inter-University Consortium For Political And Social Science (ICPSR) acquires, preserves, enhances, and distributes original social science research data for research and instruction.

ICPSR data span many disciplines including sociology, political science, criminology, history, education, demography, gerontology, international relations, public health, economics, and psychology.
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PsycNet – March Database of the Month

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Discover authoritative and comprehensive resources in the behavioral sciences with APA PsycNET databases. PsycNET provides access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines by bringing together the PsycINFO index and the full text of PsycARTICLES. This database includes literature from an array of disciplines related to psychology such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work. Continue reading

Counseling and Therapy in Video – February Database of the Month

Counseling and Therapy in Video provides the largest and richest online collection of video available for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling—400 hours and more than 330 videos on completion. The collection’s wealth of video and multiplicity of perspectives allow students and scholars to see, experience, and study counseling in ways never before possible. The videos in this collection, drawn from the catalogs of Microtraining Associates, Psychotherapy.net, and the University of Manchester Department of Psychiatry, have been created by a variety of organizations and individuals dedicated to the advancement of education and training in counseling and therapy. This current release includes 284 videos totaling roughly 314 hours.

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Freshmen: Jump Start Your Library Experience with a LibGuide

FAU Libraries is excited to announce our first LibGuide to coincide with Blink, the

Freshman Reading Experience.

A LibGuide is like having a librarian in your back pocket with superabundant tips and suggestions to improve your research! On these pages you will find interesting tidbits about author, Malcolm Gladwell, an informative bibliography, videos, and MOST importantly a place to share your observations, ideas and revelations about Blink with your fellow freshmen classmates.

To access your Blink LibGuide, click here!

Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts – May Database of the Month

Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works is a searchable collection containing real transcripts of therapy and counseling sessions and first-person narratives illuminating the experience of mental illness and its treatment, as well as reference works to contextualize the primary material. New material is added on a biweekly basis and, when complete, the database will contain more than 2,000 session transcripts, 40,000 pages of client narratives, and 25,000 pages of secondary reference material. The database currently includes approximately 53,200 pages of material, including more than 13,000 pages of session transcripts, more than 21,000 pages of client narratives, and more than 18,000 pages of secondary reference material.  Learn more >

Click here for on-campus access to Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts
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