Use MedlinePlus to get an overview of a disorder
Use Online Reference Books to get an Overview of a Disorder
- Gale Encyclopedia of PsychologyA great place to browse topics and get up-to speed. Published in 2016.
- Psychologists and their theories for studentsThis book has two volumes.
Ebooks
Introducing Mental Health Nursing by Publication Date: 2020
Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing by Publication Date: 2017
Scope and Standards of Neuroscience Nursing Practice by Publication Date: 2018
Use PCC Databases to Find Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
- PsycARTICLES This link opens in a new windowScholarly, peer-reviewed articles from the American Psychological Association
- ProQuest Health and Medicine This link opens in a new window
- Health Source - Nursing/Academic Edition This link opens in a new window
PsycARTICLES: special limiters
This database lets you limit to certain kinds of psychology articles:
- Empirical studies (data was gathered and analyzed)
- Literature reviews (research that describes and evaluates many previous studies on a topic)
- (Explore other functions)
It also contains the journals published by APA, which are highly used by psychologists.
- Click Advanced Search
- To limit to literature reviews, scroll down to Methodology. From this menu, select Literature Review.
- (Alternatively, to find empirical studies, select Empirical Study instead.)
- Scroll up to the search boxes and enter your keywords. All of your results will be limited to either empirical articles or literature reviews.