New Thesaurus Terms for Searching APA PsycInfo (Fall 2022)

In October, APA added 25 new terms to its Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms® to provide more effective searching on current topics, including cannabis use, socioeconomic status, and health problems related to alcohol use. This Thesaurus update also includes 50 new cross-referenced terms, 147 revised scope notes, and additional edits to historical notes.
Examples of new Postable terms include Alcohol Induced Psychotic Disorders, Dihydroxyphenylalanine, Incarcerated, Low Vision, Research Psychologists, and Thought Disorders. Use the link at the end of the post to view the full list of Thesaurus change on the APA website.

Using the controlled vocabulary of the Thesaurus means a database search will quickly and accurately retrieve all publications related to a specific concept, regardless of the keywords the authors may have used.

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Look up Psychology Terms in the APA Dictionary of Psychology

Perhaps you need a memory refresh for the statistical term “P factor analysis”? Maybe you’re curious to know what the acronym “SSRI” stands for, or the different types of conditions for which SSRIs are commonly used?

Faster than digging into an e-textbook and more reliable than a Google search, the online version of the APA Dictionary of Psychology® puts at your fingertips more than 25,000 authoritative entries spanning 90 subfields. Freely available on the APA web site, you can quickly access the APA dictionary to look up a specific psychology term or browse the headwords.

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New Videos Added to APA PsycTherapy (Fall 2022)

In September, we added 10 new videos to APA PsycTherapy®, our streaming video database designed to meet the teaching and training needs of psychotherapy students and practitioners. APA PsycTherapy videos are recorded during an unscripted online session to provide an authentic example of psychotherapy conducted by an expert therapist.

The 10 newest videos are excellent examples of working with clients/patients remotely through video conferencing. In addition, each new video is divided into meaningful segments for easier identification of teachable moments. (More than 200 older videos are also segmented into these annotated chapters).

  • Positive Psychotherapy With a Ukrainian Refugee
  • Behavioral Health Consultation With a Woman Experiencing Physical Symptoms Following COVID-19
  • Brief Primary Care Behavioral Health Model for COVID-Related Concerns
  • Therapy With a Black Woman Experiencing Workplace Discrimination
  • Therapy With a Black Man Dealing With Societal Pressures
  • Positive Psychotherapy Termination
  • Four-Session Evaluation: First Session With Couple Married 20 Years
  • Four-Session Evaluation With Couple Married 25 Years: Individual Session With Lori
  • Four-Session Evaluation With Couple Married 25 Years: Individual Session With Lou
  • Four-Session Evaluation: First Session With Couple Married 25 Years

Content in this latest update includes demonstrations of a four-session couple evaluation featuring Dr. Anthony Chambers of the Family Institute of Northwestern University; examples of positive psychotherapy with Dr. Tayyab Rashid; culturally responsive cognitive behavioral therapy with Dr. Erlanger Turner; and two examples of work with patients experiencing symptoms of long-haul COVID-19 with Dr. Anne C. Dobmeyer, an active-duty officer in the United States Public Health Service.

APA PsycTherapy® now includes:

  • 589 videos
  • 316 topics
  • 197 therapists
  • 159 therapeutic approaches

With 15-25 new videos added every year, APA PsycTherapy will continue to grow and showcase the latest examples and emerging best practices from clinical psychology.   

 

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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.

An APA PsycTherapy subscription includes a PDF copy of The APA PsycTherapy Teaching Guide, Revised Edition which features a series of exercises for using APA PsycTherapy with students, in clinical supervision settings, psychotherapy researcher training, and more.

Get More out of APA PsycInfo Research Updates: Top Features to Know

APA PsycInfo research services are fully responsive on any device.

Think of APA PsycInfo research services as your personal psychology research assistant.

Your institution’s subscription to APA PsycInfo provides courtesy access to a suite of complimentary, premium features to optimize your search process. Leveraging AI and machine learning, these services ease access to full text, analytics tools, and discovery of the latest scientific literature—all within the most trusted index of psychological science in the world.

Read on for an overview of the main features within APA PsycInfo research services, and tips on using its many discovery tools.

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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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