Tips for Using Topic Mapper from APA PsycInfo Updates

Topic Mapper is a new visual exploration feature within the APA PsycInfo research updates service.

Take a deeper dive on the subjects you already follow with Topic Mapper from APA PsycInfo® research updates. Built specifically for discovery and exploration, Topic Mapper visualizes the connections between your research topics of interest, identifies top-cited articles for each, lists term definitions and history, and more.

Read on for a two-minute tutorial on navigating the Topic Mapper feature.

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PubMed® Content Now Available in APA PsycInfo® Research Updates 

PubMed section of your weekly notification email.

The newly-introduced PubMed® section of your weekly research notifications.

You asked, and we’ve been working hard to make it happen! We are pleased to announce that PubMed articles of your specified topic interests, courtesy of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, will now be available within weekly APA PsycInfo research updates. 

Read on for a two-minute guide to accessing PubMed articles within your research notifications. 

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Five Ways to Use “Explore Journal” in APA PsycInfo® Research Updates

Following in Topic Mapper’s footsteps, the Explore Journal feature is the newest discovery tool to release within APA PsycInfo research notifications. While providing access to a broad spectrum of publications and content categories is a core feature of our service, we recognize that sometimes it’s better to zoom in to find exactly what you’re looking for. 

Think of Explore Journal as a social media profile. Just like visiting someone’s Facebook page, Explore Journal is a peek into a journal’s timeline, who they hang out with, how many likes their last post got, and what they do. Deep dive into a journal of interest with tools to search, filter, and examine everything from its top-cited articles and topical coverage, to pinpointing the chronology of an author’s articles. 

Check out our guide below on five ways researchers are using the Explore Journal function, or give it a try yourself by selecting any record in your notifications and following the hyperlinked journal title!

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New APA PsycTherapy Content Features Teletherapy Videos

APA PsycTherapy banner - "Streaming demonstration videos for teaching and learning psychotherapy techniques"

Six (6) new teletherapy demonstrations were recently added to APA PsycTherapy, our streaming video database designed to meet the teaching and training needs of psychotherapy students and practitioners.

Each video was recorded during an unscripted online session to provide an authentic example of telepsychology conducted by an expert therapist.

This latest release includes demonstrations of the following approaches: culturally informed psychodynamic therapy, integrated family therapy, constructivist therapy, and cognitive therapy with skillful integration of multiple interventions and exercises within a single session.

  • Using a Constructivist Therapeutic Approach With a New Father With Marital Problems (Therapist: Robert A. Neimeyer)
  • Cognitive Therapy Technique Demonstrations for Anger and Anxiety Management (Therapist: Steven D. Hollon)
  • Cognitive Therapy Demonstration for Testing Self-Schemas in Relationships (Therapist: Steven D. Hollon)
  • Integrative Family Therapy With a Couple Affected by Incarceration (Therapist: Corrine Datchi)
  • Psychodynamic Therapy With a Chinese American Woman (Therapist: Pratyusha Tummala-Narra)
  • Psychodynamic Therapy With a Survivor of Sexual Assault (Therapist: Pratyusha Tummala-Narra)

There are currently 17 videos featuring teletherapy sessions. You can retrieve them by searching any field for teletherapy or “online therapy” (include the quotation marks to find exact-phrase matches), or by searching for online therapy as an index/subject term.

Screenshot of APA PsycNet showing the use of quotation marks to find an exact-phrase match for the search term “online therapy” in Any Field.

APA PsycTherapy currently includes 570+ videos covering more than 200 topics and over 100 psychotherapy approaches, with 15-25 new videos added each year. More than 200 of these videos are also segmented into annotated chapters to help viewers easily find, save, and share specific content of interest.

Related Resources

Interested in learning more about this accessibility-certified database of recorded psychotherapy sessions? Visit the APA PsycTherapy information page or view brief tutorials on our YouTube playlist for APA PsycTherapy.

Using the Methodology Limiter in APA PsycInfo

It’s Tutorial Thursday! In this series, we explore APA’s library of video tutorials available on the APA Publishing Training YouTube channel. Please feel free to link to or embed our videos in your library websites or LibGuides, course management systems, or other locations where students, faculty, and researchers will find them.

In our newest set of tutorials, you’ll learn how use APA PsycInfo’s methodology limiter to find journal articles that use a specific methodology or study design.

Select the link below to see a demo on the platform where you use APA PsycInfo.

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