Psychology, Counseling, and Related Areas

Professional Organizations

• American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
• American Art Therapy Association
• American Counseling Association
• American Dance Therapy Association
• American Mental Health Counselors Association
• American Music Therapy Association
• American Psychological Society (APS)
• American School Counselor Organization
• American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama
• APA Division of Psychopharmacology and Substance Abuse
• APA American Psychological Association
• Association for Marriage and Family Therapy
• Association for Multicultural Counseling & Development
• Connecticut Counseling Association
• Massachusetts Mental Health Counselors Association
• National Association for Drama Therapy
• National Association for Poetry Therapy
• New Hampshire Mental Health Counselors Association
• New York Mental Health Counselors Association
• Obsessive Compulsive Foundation
• Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology
• Vermont Mental Health Counselors Association

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Suggested Internet Sites

General

• Articles, Research, and Resources in Psychology
• Celebrities in Cognitive Science: information on Vygotsky, Gardner, Piaget, Chomsky, and others)
• Classics in the History of Psychology: provides full text of a large number of historically significant public domain documents from the scholarly literature of psychology and allied disciplines available on the World Wide Web. There are now over 25 books and about 200 articles and chapters on-line. The site also contains links to over 200 relevant works posted at other sites.
• Encyclopedia of Psychology
• Mental Health Net
• Occupational Health Psychology
• PsychCrawler: a product of the American Psychological Association created to provide quick access to quality content in the field of psychology
• Psychology Online Resource Central
• School Psychology Resources online
• Social Science Information Gateway, Psychology : selected Web resources in social psychology
• The Study of Men Links to many different websites with information about issues relating specifically to men.
• The Therapist as Person

Ethics

• Codes of Ethics links
• Dual Relationships

Licensing & Certification

• American Association of State Counseling Boards
• Board of Mental Health Counselors and Marriage and Family Therapists (Rhode Island)
• Board of Registration of Allied Mental Health Professions (Massachusetts)
• National Board for Certified Counselors and Associates
• Office of Licensing and Registration (Maine)
• Office of Professional Regulation (Vermont)
• Other state licensing information
• Psychology Licensing Requirements in NH

Government Links

• Connecticut Department of Public Health
• HealthFinder: government resources in psychology
• Library of Congress Directory of Internet Resources – Psychology
• National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH )
• NH Board of Mental Health Practice
• Statutes for Mental Health Practice in New Hampshire
• USDA Environmental Psychology site

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Information for Alumni of Applied Psychology programs

When you graduate from Antioch, you will no longer have access to our subscription resources or library services [alumni have limited borrowing privileges for books, but that's about it]. However, there are other ways to keep up with what's going on in your field.

Organizations

Membership in professional organizations usually includes subscriptions to their main publications, or reduced rates for their publications and access to other resources. Many organizations also provide access to some types of information (reports, research, etc.) for non-members.

• American Psychological Association
• American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy
• American Counseling Association
• American Mental Health Counselors Association
• American Dance Therapy Association

Databases

Although our subscription databases with full text links are not available to alumni, there are several options for keeping up with what's been or being published.

• APA members can purchase different levels of access to PsycINFO and other APA databases; non-members can purchase 24-hour access to PsycINFO for $11.95 [as of May 2011].
• PubMed is the database of the National Library of Medicine. It indexes many journals which cover the field of psychology and related areas.
• ERIC is primarily an education database, but it does cover some topics related to psychology and counseling. It also provides links to the full text of many documents. (In fact, ERIC has a link to the full text of a 400-page document titled "Family Counseling and Therapy: Major Issues and Topics.")
• PILOTS [Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress] is a free searchable database of citations for worldwide literature on traumatic stress. It doesn't contain any full text but can be an excellent source of citations for articles that could be obtained through your library or possibly elsewhere online (depending on the source).
• Google Scholar tries to limit search results to citations from scholarly literature. It definitely cuts down on the number of results to wade through, and will point you to better stuff than Google. You won't often find free full text, though.
• WorldCat, library catalog to the planet, is freely available and the best place to keep up with what books are being published on any topic.

Other websites

• The Internet Public Library is a fabulous portal to all kinds of information.
• Keep in mind that government websites can offer a wealth of information. Try the National Institutes of Mental Health.
• You can still use the lists of sites posted on Research Guides:
  • General Psychology
  • Clinical Mental Health Counseling

TOCs online and Alerts

Many if not most journals provide abstracts online for new and recent issues; and many provide free email TOC [Table of Contents] alerts. At the journal's website you can sign up to receive regular announcements of what's being published. Occasionally journals even put their most recent issue online for free (Journal of Marriage and Family, for example); it's worth going to a journal's website to check out just what you can get.

Open access journals

There is a growing movement to make more scientific and scholarly information freely available. Check out the Directory of Open Access Journals for a list of free online journals in all subject areas, andpsychology in particular.

Google

There are ways to make Google searches more productive.

• In Advanced Search, you can limit to a sites in a particular domain -- academic (.edu), government (.gov), or organization (.org). This eliminates the ".com" junk and retrieves information from (generally speaking) more reliable sites.
• You can also limit to file type - PDF, for example, which is a way to retrieve full text results. Often what you'll get is full text book reviews or CVs but you can also find full text articles this way, as well as the full text of conference papers, bibliographies, and more.

Other tips

• Use the Interlibrary Loan service of whatever library you are affiliated with.
• Check to see what access to state university libraries your state might provide for residents.
• If you've used RefWorks, you might want to investigate Zotero. RefWorks is not available to AUNE alumni. Zotero is a similar kind of citation management program but it's free to anyone (anyone who uses Firefox). It's also very easy to use, and has uses beyond citations and bibliographies for papers!