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FINDING ARTICLES
Online databases are subject indexes to ARTICLES in journals. Some key words you might try are:

• comparative treatment
• therapy and treatment
• family and treatment
• alcoholism and treatment

Databases useful for Family Studies include:

Academic Search Premier: Provides full text for over 1,250 journals covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multicultural studies, education, and current affairs.

PsycINFO: covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, and linguistics. Coverage: 1889 - the present. http://www.lib.pdx.edu/resources/databases/databases_L-Z.html#p

ERIC indexes journal articles and documents in the field of education and includes information from RIE (Resources in Education) and CIJE (Current Index to Journals in Education). Coverage: 1966 - present. http://www.lib.pdx.edu/resources/databases/databases_A-K.html#e

Education Abstracts Fulltext: Coverage of 423 core periodicals, monographs, and yearbooks in the field of education. Topics include a wide range of contemporary education issues, including government funding, instructional media, multicultural education, religious education, student counseling, competency-based, and information
technology. http://wilsonweb2.hwwilson.com/autologin/

Social Work Abstracts: published by the National Association of Social Workers, provides access to the Social Work Abstracts and the Register of Clinical Social Workers. The database provides indexing and abstracting drawn from approximately 450 journals in all areas of social work, including theory and practice, areas of service, social issues, and social problems. The Register of Clinical Social Workers is a directory of clinical social workers in the United States. Coverage: 1977 - the present. http://www.lib.pdx.edu/resources/databases/databases_L-Z.html#s

Sociological Abstracts: covers the academic and professional literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database draws information from an international selection of over 2,600 journals and other serials publications, plus conference papers, books, and dissertations. Citations to journal articles published after 1974 include abstracts. Coverage 1963 - the present. http://www.lib.pdx.edu/resources/databases/databases_L-Z.html#s

FINDING BOOKS - For a tutorial go here:
Use the library catalog to find books: http://vikat.pdx.edu/
Try using the following in the KEYWORD FIELD:

comparative treatment*
therapy and treatment*
famil* and treatment*
alcoholism and treatment *

Some titles of interest:

BF637.C6 C777 2004. Culturally responsive interventions : innovative approaches to working with diverse populations / Julie R. Ancis, editor.

RJ506.D4 M66 2002. Adolescent depression : a guide for parents / Francis Mark Mondimore.

RC488.5 .C634 2000. Comparative treatments for relationship dysfunction / Frank M. Dattilio.

RC455.4 .F3 L65 1998. Personal disorder and family life / Peter Lomas.

REFERENCE

A dictionary of family therapy / Jacques Miermont. RC488.5 .M5313 1995 

Dictionary of family psychology and family therapy / S. Richard Sauber. RC488.5 .D525 1993 

Encyclopedia of family life. HQ534 .E53 1999 

Encyclopedia of marriage and the family / David Levinson, editor in chief. HQ9 .E52 1995

Family encyclopedia of child psychology and development / Frank J. Bruno. BF721 .B7157 1992   

Marriage, family, and relationships : a cross-cultural encyclopedia / Gwen J. Broude. GN480 .B76 1994      

Mayo Clinic family health book / David E. Larson, editor-in-chief. RC81 .M473 1996    

Parenthood in America : an encyclopedia / Lawrence Balter, editor ; foreword by Robert B. McCall.HQ755.8 .P3783 2000 

Statistical Handbook on the American Family, 2nd ed.
HQ536 .S727 1999

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