Counseling Library Guide

Research Help

See Below for Info on…

  • Finding Books

  • Finding Articles

  • All About Behavioral and Mental Health Online

  • Websites + Data Portals

Contact the Library

Librarian for Counseling

Emma Fernandez (she/her)
efernandez@stephens.edu
(573) 441-5129

Book an appointment with me!

Library Contact Info

library@stephens.edu
Front Desk: (573) 876-7182
Text the Library: (573) 475-4211
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Finding Books

Resources

  • MOBIUS Library Catalog

    Content type: books. Search the MOBIUS Consortium catalog and request books be sent to Stephens for pickup. Books are generally ready to be picked up in two to three work days.

Physical Book Locations

Counseling books are located in the following sections (second floor of the Stephens Library):

  • BF - Human development

    • BF 173-175.5 - Psychoanalysis

    • BF 636-637 - Applied psychology

  • HF 5381 - Vocational guidance/career development

  • HQ 1 -2044 - Family, Marriage, Women

  • HT: Communities/classes/races 

  • HV: Social pathology/social and public welfare

  • LB 1027.5 - 1027.8 - Student Guidance & Counseling

  • RC 475-489 - Therapeutics & Psychotherapy

 

Search Tips

Search the Stephens Library Catalog to find physical materials and eBooks held at Stephens Library. The MOBIUS Catalog is also a good option to broaden your search for print books to libraries across Missouri.

Try using the phrase “counseling” to get started, or use more specific terms for the field you’re researching.

Use the advanced search function and search for these phrases as subject terms to find materials about that term (rather than narrowing to a specific title).

Here are some other examples:

  • Therapy

  • Self-help

  • Rehabilitate

In addition, use the filters on the left hand side of the catalog to narrow or broaden your search.

  • Availability (Online vs. At The Library)

  • Found In (Subject, Title, Author, etc.)

  • Format (E-Book, Book/Print. DVD, etc.)

  • Language (English, Spanish, etc.)

  • Publish Date (use the sliding bar to create a timeline)

  • Place (U.S., Canada, etc.)

Search eMO Ebooks - Counseling, eMO Ebooks - Career Counseling and, eMO Ebooks - School Counseling by:

  • Source type

  • Subject

  • Language

  • Category

Finding Articles

Resources

  • Academic Search Ultimate

    Content types: articles. Covers a wide range of subjects and contains the full text of nearly 12,400 journals, including 10,900 peer-reviewed journals.

  • Behavioral and Mental Health Online

    Content types: video, books, and documents. Contains more than 2,500 videos and almost 3,500 books, documents and transcripts.

  • Child Development & Adolescent Studies

    Content types: articles, books, reports. Variety of current and historical literature related to the growth and development of children through age 21.

  • PsycInfo

    Content types: articles and books. Journal articles, chapters, books, dissertations, and reports related to behavioral science and mental health, with ninety-nine percent of the covered material peer-reviewed.

  • Violence & Abuse Abstracts

    Content types: articles. Resources covering all areas related to abuse: family, emotional, sexual, physical, and more. Contains more than 77,000 records.

When searching these you will likely come across articles that are not immediately available. In such cases, choose to “Request It” and complete the process. Articles usually become available within one work day although it can take as many as five days. You can review your request history and make requests from scratch by using Interlibrary Loan.

Search Tips

  • Break your research question into essential key words and connect with AND.

  • Use synonyms and connect them with OR

    • adolescents OR adolescence OR teens OR teenagers OR young adults

  • Use truncation (*) to get plurals and alternative endings.

    • educat* = educate, education, educating, educated, etc.

  • Put quotes around a term that’s a phrase to keep the words together.

    • “body image”

  • When you find a good article, look at the works cited or reference list at the end to help identify other useful resources on the same topic.

All About Behavioral and Mental Health Online

Fundamental Topics Covered:

Behavioral and Mental Health Online is a fundamental resource for studying and teaching in the areas of behavioral and mental health.

What’s in Behavioral and Mental Health Online?

Clinical mental health demonstrations, video of real clinical mental health sessions, largest amount of DSM-5®/ICD-10 video content, documentaries on the human condition, psychotherapy transcripts, client narratives, reference works, clinical mental health textbooks and workbooks, psychological experiments and more.

  • Real therapy sessions and reenactments: Hundreds of therapy sessions cover a wide range of theories and skills and include diverse clients and presenting issues.

  • Training videos: Lectures and workshops focus on the latest research and evidence-based practices.

  • Transcripts: 6,000 transcripts from real-life therapy sessions give researchers unprecedented access to presenting conditions and treatment.

  • DSM-5®/ICD-10 content: The largest collection of DSM-5®/ICD-10 video content found anywhere, with assessments to gauge comprehension.


Clinical Mental Health  

  • Marriage and Family

  • Counseling Theory

  • Addictions

  • School Counseling

  • Multicultural

  • Trauma

DSM-5®/ICD-10  

  • Bipolar

  • Depression

  • Schizophrenia

  • Alzheimer’s Dementia

  • Suicide Assessment

Psychological Research and Study  

  • Kohlberg’s Moral Development

  • Erikson’s Human Development

  • Human Motivation

  • Memory

  • Obedience

  • American Counseling Association - The American Counseling Association is a membership organization representing licensed professional counselors, counseling students, and other counseling professionals in the United States. It is the world's largest association exclusively representing professional counselors.

  • American Mental Health Counselors Association  - An organization of licensed mental health counselors in the United States. Its activities include setting and enforcing standards for education, licensing, and ethics for American mental health counselors.

  • Administration for Children and Families - Promotes the economic and social well-being of families, children, youth, individuals and communities through funding, strategic partnerships, guidance, training and technical assistance.

  • National Institute of Mental Health - The lead federal agency for research on mental disorders working to transform the understanding and treatment of mental illnesses through basic and clinical research, paving the way for prevention, recovery, and cure.       

  • Society for Social Work and Research - A non‐profit, professional membership organization that supports social workers, social welfare professionals, social work students, social work faculty and researchers in related fields.

  • National Association of Social Workers - A professional organization of social workers in the United States. NASW has about 120,000 members. The NASW provides guidance, research, up to date information, advocacy, and other resources for its members and for social workers in general.

  • Missouri Behavioral Health Council - A network of member agencies throughout the state provides a comprehensive array of psychiatric and substance use treatment services and supports as appropriate for children/adolescents, adults, and senior adults. In addition to supporting our members, the Council develops programs and promotes best practices that improve behavioral health in Missouri—anywhere the system and individual meet.

  • Missouri Division of Professional Registration - Provides administrative support to 41 professional licensing boards and commissions responsible for licensing and regulating the activities of more than 525,000 Missourians. The division exists to serve and protect the public from incompetency, misconduct, gross negligence, fraud, misrepresentation or dishonesty by providing an accessible, responsible and accountable regulatory system that licenses only qualified professionals by examination and evaluation of minimum competency and enforces standards by implementing legislation and administrative rules.

Websites

Data Portals