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Starting point for Counselling

Starting point contains definitions, facts, figures and overviews

• Dictionaries help you to define your keywords
• Encyclopedias help you to get an overview of your topic and provide more information than a dictionary
• Handbooks and manuals provide figures and facts

Key online dictionaries, encyclopedias and handbooks

A guide for counsellors working with alcohol and other drug users : core counselling skills

Guide developed by the Best Practice in Alcohol and Other Drug Interventions Working Group

Key print dictionaries, encyclopedias and handbooks

The SAGE handbook of counselling and psychotherapy
Basic personal counselling
Handbook of counselling psychology

Use the catalogue to search for more dictionaries, encyclopedias and handbooks

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Catalogue searching

You can search the Library Catalogue to find books, DVDs, journals and other materials

If you know the exact title in the New catalogue

• At the search screen select a Title search
• Type in the exact title. You can use double quotes around phrases, for example, “room with a view”
• Link to online material or take note of the collection, call number and status to find items in the Library

If you are searching for a topic in the New catalogue

• Type in keywords from your topic to find catalogue records that contain all of your keywords
  For example,  +counsel +alcohol
• Use + before a word to indicate that the word must be included
• Another way of doing this is to combine keywords with AND (the AND must be in upper case)
• If a keyword search gives you too many results, you could add another keyword with +
  For example, +counsel +alcohol +drug

Truncation is generally not needed as entering any version of a word will retrieve many variations.

More information

• For more information select the catalogue Help button

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Databases and journal articles for Counselling

Use databases to search for journal articles, book chapters, conference papers or research reports

Key databases for Counselling

Databases	Notes	Help
PsycInfo	Database of international literature on psychology and related disciplines	Help and tips available from each screen within the database and the PsycInfo user guide
PsycArticles	Full text database of journals published by American Psychological Association and allied organisations	Help and tips available from each screen within the database
Psychology a SAGE full-text collection	Full-text database of psychology journals including counselling psychology	Help and tips available from each screen within the database
Counseling and psychotherapy transcripts, client narratives, and reference works	Searchable collection containing real transcripts of therapy and counseling sessions and first-person narratives	Help and tips available from each screen within the database

Complete list of Psychology databases. Also check the multidisciplinary databases as they cover a wide range of academic topics. You can select other subjects from the database subject list

Full text not available?

When the full text is not available, search for the journal title in the Library catalogue to discover if print or online copies are available

Database search tips

• Define your topic and identify the main concepts involved
  For example Teenagers AND counselling
  • Make a list of keywords for each concept
    For example
    Teenage adolescent youth
    Counselling counseling
    
  • Think about how you can combine these keywords in your search using OR, AND or NOT
    Keywords on the same concept combine with an OR
    Combine different concepts with an AND
    For example
    Teenage or adolescent or youth
    and
    Counsel*
    
  • Appropriate truncation symbols can be used in databases to find variations of a word, for example Counsel* finds counselling, counseling, counsellor, counselor and so on

For help with searching databases see Connecting and Combining Search Terms or Truncation/Wildcards/Phrase searching: Basic or Online training or Ask the Library

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Key internet sites for Counselling

It is important to critically evaluate all information you find particularly information found on the web.

This is a starting list of internet sites. You may want to do your own searches using search engines

Useful starters

• Psych Web An American website linking to psychology-related resources, including counselling resources, created by Russell A. Dewey, PhD
• Intute: Psychology Online psychology resources compiled by Intute

Professional associations

• Australian Counselling Association National association of counsellors and psychotherapists

• Australian Psychological Society National professional association for psychologists, and includes information on psychology topics, careers and media releases

• Career Development Association of Australia A national organisation of practitioners who work in the career development industry providing a range of career services for people entering the workforce

• Australian Guidance and Counselling Association National association for the educational guidance and counselling sector

• British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy Support of the advancement and growth of professional counsellors and the counselling profession

• Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia Federation of Professional Associations of psychotherapists and counsellors in Australia

Government organisations

• Australian Institute of Family Studies Australian government statutory authority for marital and family stability information

• Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Australian Government statutory authority for health and welfare statistics and information

Non-government organisations

• Mental Health Council of Australia National organisation for the mental health sector

• Multicultural Mental Health Australia National mental health organisation for Australians from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds

• United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy An umbrella organisation, with over 80 training, or accrediting organisations to inform and consult on issues of concern to practitioners and support continuing professional development.

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