Clinical psychology
Key DVD and video titles
Don't know where to begin? Start with the DVD and video titles that have been identified as being particularly relevant to specific topics.
Aging
Mental health problems of older adults. (1997). [DVD]. [Minneapolis, Minn.]: Mental Health Outreach Network.
Hawthorn: AVL 155.67 MEN-M
Cognitive therapy
Meichenbaum, D. Mixed anxiety and depression: a cognitive-behavioral approach. (1996). [DVD]. New York: Newbridge Communications.
Hawthorn: AVL 616.89 MIX-M
Persons, J.B. Cognitive-behavior therapy. (1994). [Videotape]. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Hawthorn: AVL 616.8914 COG-P
Counseling
The gift of therapy: a conversation with Irvin Yalom, M.D. (2002). [DVD]. San Franciso: Psychotherapy.net.
Hawthorn: AVL 616.8914 GIF-Y
Improving your counseling skills. (1998). [Videotape]. [San Pedro, Calif.]: Jim Thompson Productions in association with Quality Educational Media.
Hawthorn: AVL 158.3 IMP-J
Couples therapy
Couples therapy using themes and metaphor to mobilize change. (2000). [DVD]. Phoenix, Ariz.: Zeig, Tucker & Theisen.
Hawthorn: AVL 616.891562 COU-P
Online videos - TVNews
The library subscribes to a database called TVNews on Informit providing online access to news, current affairs and selected documentary programs that have been broadcast on Australian television such as Four Corners, Catalyst and Cutting Edge.
Here's a Catalyst story about the development of a diagnostic test for bipolar disorder, Bi-polar disorder: the right diagnosis?, 7 min.
Another Catalyst story, Body clock, 12 min, looks at research into the body clock and the possible side-effects of trying to alter it, including increased risk of heart disease and obesity. Touches on the research in predicting manic episodes in bipolar disorder sufferers conducted by Swinburne's Greg Murray.
Online videos - YouTube
The website YouTube enables videos to be posted and viewed for free. Usually tags, describing the video, are added and these tags are searchable. Below are some useful search terms. Combine them with the term, "psychology", to limit the results to videos with this tag.
- Anorexia
- Anxiety disorder
- Bipolar disorder
- Borderline personality disorder
- Depression
- Eating disorder
- Mood disorder
- Obsessive compulsive disorder
- Personality disorder
- Schizophrenia
Search the Library
Search for more titles using the Search the Library. Audiovisual Keyword is the best option when searching for DVDs, videos or sound recordings. Some useful subject headings are:
- Aging - Psychological aspects
- Anxiety - Treatment
- Cognitive therapy
- Counseling
- Counselors
- Depression, Mental
- Family psychotherapy
- Marital psychotherapy
- Marriage counseling
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Older people - Mental health
- Older people - Psychology
- Psychoanalysis
- Psychotherapist and patient
- Psychotherapy
- Relaxation
- Schizophrenia - Treatment
- Stress (Psychology)
Databases
Databases enable you to search for articles on a particular topic.
- PsycArticles on Ebscohost Contains full text from 49 journals published by the APA and allied organisations.
- PsycINFO on Ebscohost Provides references and abstracts to journal articles covering psychology and related disciplines.
- Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection on Ebscohost Full text from nearly 500 journals covering psychology and related subjects.
- Psychology Collection on Gale Index to a collection of journals covering psychology and related disciplines with full text provided for most articles.
- Scopus The world's largest abstract and indexing database. It also includes the journals indexed by ScienceDirect and has 100% Medline coverage. ScienceDirect Full text science database, with a strong coverage of psychology.
- Web of Science Provides access to current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from approximately 8,700 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world. You can search most disciplines and time spans back to 1982 to uncover information relevant to your research.
Tip: If full text is not provided use the Full Text? button 
to link to the full text in other databases (if available).
Online Tutorials
Learn how to improve your research skills and use library services effectively - watch our short online tutorials!
- Searching for an article in an Ebscohost database: basic searching (2min 38)
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- How to find the readings on your reading list. Part 2: finding an article (1min 36)
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