The Library: Psychological Therapies: Specialist Resources

Reading lists

Your lecturers have created bespoke reading lists to support each of your modules. These contain books, articles and other relevant materials and are a great place to start your research.

You can find them in MyBeckett.

Health-specific statistics resources

Department of Health & Social Care
NHS England - statistics
OEDC - health
Office of Health Economics
Public Health England data and analysis tools
UK Data Service
The UK Data Service is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to meet the data needs of researchers, students and teachers from all sectors, including academia, central and local government, charities and foundations, independent research centres, think tanks, and business consultants and the commercial sector.
You can browse data for free but will need to register to download it.
World Health Organisation - statistics
Global Health Observatory data

Statista
Statistics portal, allowing you to access a wide variety of statistics, and download them as images, Powerpoint presentations or Excel spreadsheets. Includes comprehensive support information, allowing you to fully get to grips with the data and place it in context.

Please visit the Statista help pages for support.

Accessibility statement for Statista.

Key resources for Psychological Therapies

CINAHL Complete
Comprehensive source of full text for nursing and allied health journals, providing full text for more than 1,400 journals indexed in CINAHL. The subjects covered in this database include speech and language pathology, nutrition, general health and medicine, and more.

Please visit the CINAHL Complete help pages for support.

Accessibility statement for CINAHL Complete.
Counseling and Therapy in Video: Volume II (Alexander Street Press)
Expands on the content of the first volume with a special emphasis on contemporary topics, featuring world-renowned therapists demonstrating their methods and techniques, state of the art as of 2005 or later. The collection also includes documentaries providing insight into the human condition and training in skills such as reflection and empathy.

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MEDLINE via EBSCO
Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, containing millions of citations, derived from thousands of biomedical and life science journals, and indexed with Medical Subject Headings from the NLM controlled vocabulary.

Please visit the MEDLINE help pages for support.

Accessibility statement for MEDLINE.
PsycARTICLES
A definitive source of full text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains more than 100,000 articles from key journal titles. Coverage: 1894 to present.

Please visit the PsycARTICLES help pages for support.

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PsycINFO
Provides access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines. The database also covers literature from disciplines related to psychology such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work.

Please visit the PsycINFO help pages for support.

Accessibility statement for PsycINFO.
PubMed
Comprises more than 23 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

Accessibility statement for PubMed.

A-N The Artists Information Company
A-N focuses on conversations around the critical and professional environment for the visual arts. It contains news, careers and professional development information for all aspects of arts in the UK. There are resources on; setting up open exhibitions, funding, increasing productivity, and news about curatorial initiatives.

Please note, you will need individual membership to use the current 'jobs and opps' listings.
Art Full Text
A comprehensive resource for art information featuring full text articles from more than 300 periodicals dating back to 1995, indexing and abstracting of over 600 periodicals dating as far back as 1984. Also including 280 peer-reviewed journals, as well as indexing and abstracting of over 13,000 art dissertations. Indexing of almost 200,000 art reproductions provides examples of styles and art movements, including works by emerging artists. The database covers fine, decorative and commercial art, folk art, photography, film, and architecture, and also includes a database-specific thesaurus.

Accessibility statement for Art Full Text.
Artstor
There are more than 2 million images from 280 collections and collections are updated monthly. Supporting teaching and research for a range of subjects including: anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art, history, fashion and costume, literature, religion, world history and more.

You can download images and image details individually. Once you have logged in using your username and password you will have to register for a free account in order to download. Register using your student email address and by registering you will be able to access saved folders and organize images into groups. For information on how to use Artstor go to Artsor Support

Accessibility statement for Artstor.
British Cartoon Archive
Gives free access to more than 125,000 fully-catalogued cartoons. All the cartoons on the website are indexed and searchable and the unique website allows users to browse and drill down into the collection by viewing cartoons published on the same day, by the selected cartoonist, or with the same keywords.
Visual Arts Data Service (VADS)
This is an important online resource for visual arts. It has built up a considerable portfolio of visual art collections comprising over 100,000 images. They are freely available and copyright cleared for use in teaching, learning and research.

VADS is a service of the Centre for Digital Scholarship in the Library & Student Services department of the University for the Creative Arts.

Although you should use the databases and Discover to search across a range of publications for relevant journal articles, the following publications have been of particular use to students and professionals:

100 Art Therapy exercises
British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP)
British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT)
Creative Response
Arts for wellbeing charity
Department of Health & Social Care
Leeds Public Health Resource Centre
A useful range of information, resources and activities to support public health in Leeds
UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP)
Mind

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User guides/help for health resources

Request an ebook

Request an ebook allows you to make suggestions of resources for the Library to purchase. It is your opportunity to influence the development of the Library's collections, and can be useful if you are looking for information on a very specific topic - for example, for a dissertation or other piece of independent research.

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