APA Research Databases

Robin Williams and Jane Pauley are different faces of mental health treatment, one successful, one not. Clinicians need help staying current on information, and the APA Handbooks in Psychology Series can help.

A search for best practice therapy resources for a clinician shows how to use the facets and set up email alerts

this episode focuses on the Boolean Not. As important as searching for what you do want is excluding what you don't from the results. This search focuses on adolescent girls and math and excludes records in the result set that include boys and participants in non-target ages.

APA databases combined capture many aspects of an author's work. Carol Dweck is represented in all databases, which allows a researcher to see the whole sweep of her career. You can see bibliographic entries and access her full-text research.

A psychologist needs practical research on testifying in court as an expert witness. By combining a search for current PsycCRITIQUES reviews and full text available from our full text databases, she finds just the right source

The US government shutdown caused the CDC to largely stop operations, including tracking pandemics and working on viruses. This podcast looks at research on pandemics, specifically H1N1, in conference materials over the past year.

Historical information is important even if the ideas conveyed seem (and even are) foolish. We learn by error as much as by success.

Few things are as evocative as music, especially the music of our youth. What information can we find in PsycEXTRA on how music affects us?

One of the core areas in PsycCRITQUES is reviews of professional literature. This episode is about how therapists deal with their negative reactions to psychotherapy clients and use those reactions in their work.

The tragedy in Newtown, CT, in which 20 children were shot and killed, has breathed new energy into the mental health and gun control debates. Within days, information was available in PsycEXTRA, including speeches, press releases, fact sheets, blog articles, and news stories.

Obesity has overtaken hunger as a global health crises. Is obesity a relevant topic for psychology and what resources have been review recently on obesity in PsycCRITIQUES?

The holidays bring out the best and worst of our character, as shown by frenzied shoppers and an altruistic policeman. What materials do we have to help parents encourage prosocial behavior and develop a sound moral compass?

An episode about how, the Citizens' United decision having made the 2012 election endless and more expensive than any election in history, an analyst could find information on voting behavior and what makes an undecided voter choose.

In the wake of the anti-American attacks going on worldwide and Chris Stevens death, how do we make sense of protecting objectionable speech? Without protection, great voices are lost. List of banned authors from Abelard to Zwingli, including Socrates, Shakespeare, Twain, Voltaire

Why are we so fascinated with hoarding? PsycEXTRA is a prime resource for the general public looking for information on hoarding, a newly defined disorder in the draft DSM-V.