Research Databases for Art Therapy
The combined search provides access to multiple databases. Also choose from core research databases, encyclopedias and related databases. Librarians are available to suggest research strategies.
Resources with Full-Text
Resources with Digital Media
Combined Search
Art Therapy: Combined Database Search
Search multiple databases: Academic Search Complete, CINAHL, Medline, PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES, Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection.
Type: Index with some Full-text
Core Research Databases
Academic Search Complete by EBSCOhost
A large, multi-disciplinary database with citations, abstracts and many full-text articles.
Type: Full-text
Alt Health Watch
Provides full-text back to 1990 for more than 140 alternative health publications.
Type: Index with some Full-text
Catalog of Art Museum Images Online (CAMIO)
The growing collection contains images of paintings, photographs, sculpture and other media from participating museums and institutions.
Type: Digital Media
CINAHL
The Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature provides indexing for over 2,737 journals in nursing, health disciplines, biomedicine and many other areas.
Type: Index with Citations
Counseling and Therapy in Video
The online resource provides actual therapy sessions, re-enacted therapy sessions and scripted scenes to illustrate techniques. The resource also contains additional content from professional therapists including interviews and presentations.
Type: Digital Media
Dissertation Abstracts
Provides abstracts of doctoral and master's theses in all fields.
Type: Index with Abstracts
Health Source
Provides articles from more than 550 journals with a focus on health, medicine, nursing, pharmacology and prescription drugs.
Type: Index with some Full-text
Lexi-PALS Drug Guide
Provides over 1400 advisory leaflets for common medications with information about side effects, warnings and basic pharmacology.
Type: Full-text
Medline
Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences and much more.
Type: Index with Citations
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
Provides coverage of nearly 550 full-text journals in the social and human sciences fields.
Type: Index with some Full-text
PsycINFO with PsycARTICLES
Provides extensive coverage in the field of psychology including the full-text of over 50 journals published by the American Psychological Association.
Type: Index with some Full-text
Encyclopedias
Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol and Addictive Behavior
Covers the social, medical, legal and political aspects related to drugs and alcohol.
Type: Full-text
Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
Includes brief articles on all major conditions discussed in the DSM-IV.
Type: Full-text
Encyclopedia of Mental Health
Includes articles on major issues in the field including diagnosis, scales, medications and treatment.
Type: Full-text
Related Databases
AgeLine
Covers social gerontology and aging studies with an emphasis on psychology, social work and public policy.
Type: Index with Abstracts
Art Full Text
Provides comprehensive indexing for more than 500 international art publications including periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins. The database also includes the full-text of 200 journals with coverage beginning in 1997.
Type: Full-text
Article First
A large, multi-disciplinary index covering over 15,000 scholarly and popular journals.
Type: Index with Citations
Communication and Mass Media Complete
Provides full-text from over 200 journals in the fields of communication and mass media. Coverage extends to speaking, writing and public relations.
Type: Index with some Full-text
JSTOR: Arts and Sciences Collection
Provides a retrospective, full-text collection that includes many of the core research and society published journals in key fields in the humanities and social sciences.
Type: Full-text
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