Webinar Alert: PsycINFO Sessions for Students & Faculty – January 25-27

Posted on January 17, 2017January 23, 2017 by Patti Avellanet in For Faculty, For Librarians, For Students

Our next series of PsycINFO® webinars for students and faculty will run on January 25, January, 26 and January 27 from 11 – 11:30 a.m. EST (UTC -5). The sessions may be taken separately, but we encourage those who are interested to take all three, so we offer them on consecutive days:

Wednesday, January 25: Basic Search
Thursday, January 26: Advanced Search
Friday, January 27: Results Management

We will provide information relevant to all search platforms including APA PsycNET, EBSCOhost, Ovid, and ProQuest. The platform demonstrated will be based on the needs of the attendees of each session. For more information on this series, including full descriptions, please visit our database webinar training web page.

These webinars are an ideal way for students to get a refresher on PsycINFO if they have had a previous training session. Please help us spread the word to interested students and faculty!

Exhibits Update: Society for Personality and Social Psychology Convention

Posted on January 13, 2017January 9, 2017 by Marta Soto in For Faculty, For Individual Subscribers, For Librarians

The Society for Personality and Social Psychology Convention will be held at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, TX, from Thursday, January 19 – Saturday, January 21, 2017. The American Psychological Association will be participating in the Exhibits Hall throughout the conference.

Stop by to learn more about APA Style CENTRAL®, an exciting new institutional electronic resource for APA Style® that launched this summer, and get the latest updates about APA Journals, Books, and Databases.

And be sure to look for our Theater Session, Teaching with APA Style CENTRAL on Saturday, January 21, 2017, 11:00 am to 12:15 pm.

Streaming Access to APA Videos

Posted on January 9, 2017January 6, 2017 by Patti Avellanet in For Faculty, For Librarians

APA Videos has several video series showing psychologists demonstrating their expertise for educational and training purposes:

The APA Psychotherapy Video Series presents distinguished psychologists demonstrating specific approaches to a wide range of patient problems. Most sessions are with actual volunteer participants, making these recordings rich illustrations of what real therapy is like.
The Psychotherapy Supervision Video Series provides a thorough review of the latest approaches to clinical supervision. Each video in this series shows supervisors demonstrating work with a student in a candid, unedited session.
The new Psychological Assessment Video Series presents psychologists demonstrating how to administer commonly used tests and instruments. The videos in this series provide an introduction to tests that measure personality as well as emotional, behavioral, and cognitive functioning.

All of these videos are designed for clinical training and education. In addition to the demonstration, each video features an interview in which the guest expert psychologist discusses the approach taken in the demonstration session. They provide reactions and thoughts on how the session went, including an analysis featuring video excerpts from the session.

Also available from APA are short series such as Cognitive-Behavior Therapy for Depression, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Techniques and Strategies, and Emotion in Psychotherapy, all of which feature a panel of guest experts discussing specific aspects of therapeutic approaches and analyzing brief clips that show client–therapist interactions.

Single-title streaming versions of APA Videos are now available for sale to educational institutions as well as individual mental health practitioners.

On the APA Videos site, each title has a link to purchase the streaming version from the Alexander Street Academic Video Store.

There are currently 250 APA videos available for streaming purchase, and we add new titles within a month of their release. You can browse APA Videos here.

Webinar Alert: APA Style CENTRAL Trainings for January 2017

Posted on January 5, 2017January 13, 2017 by Marta Soto in For Faculty, For Librarians, For Students

APA Style CENTRAL® is the newest member of the APA Style® family, launched in July 2016.

APA’s training specialists have developed several webinars for librarians, instructors, and students that include content overview and a live demonstration of features.

Click on any session link to register (all times are EDT).
The Online Introduction introduces librarians to the platform.

Teaching with APA Style CENTRAL details how faculty, librarians, and other instructors can use APA Style CENTRAL in teaching APA Style.

January 31, 2017 at 11:00 a.m.

Writing Papers in APA Style CENTRAL teaches end users how to create and save papers using APA Style CENTRAL.

Wednesday, January 25, 2017 at 4:00 p.m.

For more information, and to see the full schedule, visit the APA Style CENTRAL webinars page.

APA Style CENTRAL – Create a User Account

Posted on January 3, 2017February 7, 2017 by Patti Avellanet in For Faculty, For Librarians, For Students

Today we’d like to share an excerpt from one of our APA Style CENTRAL handouts, “Creating APA Style CENTRAL^®Accounts” (PDF). Please feel free to link to this handout where students, faculty, and researchers will find it.

When using APA Style CENTRAL, you will need an account in order to write or collaborate on a paper, create a reference list, or use the research planning and tracking tools.

We all have more accounts than we know what to do with (or can remember!), but here’s the good news: Any existing APA account can also be used as your APA Style CENTRAL account — including a MyAPA, APA membership, APA PsycNET^®, or MyPsycNET account.

Not sure if you have an existing APA account to use for APA Style CENTRAL? Do a quick check by visiting your institution’s APA Style CENTRAL home page. At the top right corner of the screen, select Welcome and Log In; then on the next screen, select the No account? link:

Enter your email address into the Email field and click anywhere outside the textbox to run the system check. If it matches, you will see a login prompt; if not, you can try entering a different email address or complete the rest of the form to create a new account:

Want to learn more? You’ll find this handout on our APA Style CENTRAL^® Handouts and Guides page, where we will continue to add handouts and documentation for users and administrators as they become available.