MVCC Libraries: Human Services Courses: L. Williams

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CREDO Reference This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text online versions of hundreds of top quality reference books in all major subjects from art to medicine, psychology to history, and technology to literature. Includes bilingual and biographical dictionaries.

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection This link opens in a new window
This comprehensive resource provides extensive full-text coverage for a broad range of topics in the fields of psychology and behavioral sciences.
PsycARTICLES This link opens in a new window
PsycARTICLES includes all journal articles, book reviews, letters to the editor and errata from each journal. It also offers extensive backfile coverage.
Psychology (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Psychology Collection provides access to academic journals and magazines that cover the study of emotions, personality, and the human mind. The database offers content of interest to both researchers and general users
Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) This link opens in a new window
Covering the latest concepts, theories and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences, this full-text resource provides access to a wide assortment of the most important English-language social science journals.

Criminal Justice (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Whether studying to become a lawyer or law enforcement officer, paralegal, or for a career in Homeland Security, this collection rises to the challenge. Users will have access to hundreds of full-text journals.

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
This database provides complete coverage of multidisciplinary academic journals. The level and range of content included in this resource fully supports scholarly research in the key areas of academic study.
Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window
Source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. Multidisciplinary resources with extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects.

National Institute of Mental Health
National Institute on Drug Abuse
From the National Institutes of Health; lots of articles on drugs of abuse for parents, teachers, students, and young adults.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
Includes full text publications and a rehabilitation center locator, as well as statistical reports; from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
National Institutes of Health (NIH) topic search

DSM-5 Made Easy: The Clinician's Guide to Diagnosis James Morrison presents the spectrum of diagnoses in DSM-5 in an accessible, engaging, clinically useful format. Demystifying DSM-5 criteria without sacrificing accuracy, the book includes ICD-10-CM codes for each disorder. More than 130 detailed case vignettes illustrate typical patient presentations; down-to-earth discussions of each case demonstrate how to arrive at the diagnosis and rule out other likely possibilities.