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Training Alert: APA PsycInfo Webinars for Students, Faculty, and Researchers (Fall 2022)

Posted on by Marta Soto in For Librarians

Interested in strengthening your APA database searching skills? Or are you not sure how to start your behavioral sciences research project? Join us for the next round of APA PsycInfo® webinars designed for students, faculty, and anyone else who wants to learn more about how to search APA PsycInfo more effectively!

APA Publishing’s training specialists offer free webinars through Zoom to help APA PsycInfo users learn how to make maximum use of their time searching APA’s research databases.

Search tips and strategies covered in both sessions are relevant to all search platforms — APA PsycNet®, EBSCOhost, Ovid, and ProQuest.

The sessions may be attended separately, but we encourage you to take both if you are interested!

Register for the Zoom events using the links below. 

 

APA PsycInfo: Basic Search 

This 30-minute session is for anyone who is new to searching the behavioral sciences literature, finds the prospect of research a bit daunting, or usually begins their search with Google or Google Scholar. 

After a brief APA PsycInfo overview, APA trainers demonstrate simple yet powerful techniques including how to quickly identify the best search terms, apply filters to narrow the range of results, and pinpoint empirical studies. 

Monday, September 12th, 11:00 AM Eastern Time 

Thursday, October 13th, 2:00 PM Eastern Time

 

APA PsycInfo: Advanced Search 

This 30-minute follow-up to the Basic Search session highlights some of APA PsycInfo’s advanced functionality, designed to increase your efficiency by retrieving better search results faster.  

Highlights include using APA Thesaurus terms and other database fields to target your search, Boolean operators to accurately include or exclude concepts, and cited references to find related research.

Monday, September 19th, 11:00 AM Eastern Time 

Thursday, October 20th, 2:00 PM Eastern Time 

 

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Training Alert: APA PsycInfo Webinars for Librarians (Fall 2022)

Posted on by Marta Soto in For Librarians

Interested in an APA PsycInfo refresher as the fall semester gets underway? 

APA Publishing’s training specialists offer free webinars through Zoom to help APA PsycInfo users learn how to make maximum use of their time searching APA’s research databases.

Our 45-minute webinar demonstrates a few novel ways to use APA PsycInfo for more than just locating articles, and is designed for subject specialists, reference librarians, and instructors who provide support for behavioral sciences students and faculty, 

Search tips and strategies covered are relevant to all search platforms — APA PsycNet®, EBSCOhost, Ovid, and ProQuest.

Register for the Zoom events using the links below.

 

Beyond Subject Searching in APA PsycInfo 

Have you ever used APA PsycInfo to identify the types of research being done at a particular institution? Or to discover additional journals that might be a good match for a prospective author’s research? 

You’ll also learn how to uncover details about grants and sponsorships that can help reveal potential funding opportunities, and how to find important information about tests and assessment tools.  

Thursday, September 8th, 1:00 PM Eastern Time 

Wednesday, October 26th, 2:00 PM Eastern Time 

 

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New APA PsycTherapy Content Features Teletherapy Videos

Posted on by Patti Avellanet in For Faculty, For Individual Subscribers, For Librarians, For Students
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.

New Thesaurus Terms for Searching APA PsycInfo (Spring 2022)

Posted on by Marta Soto in For Librarians

In May, APA added 47 new terms to its Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms® to provide more effective searching on current topics, including climate and environment, social and cultural issues, eating and nutrition, and mental health. This thesaurus update also includes 34 new cross-referenced terms and 33 revised scope notes.

New terms from this spring update will initially be applied to current content only; following the fall release, the majority of postable terms new for 2022 will be back-mapped to older records.

New terms in the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms as of May 2022
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