LibGuides: Counselling and Addictions: Databases

General Databases

EBSCOhost. Includes multiple databases with a wide subject coverage. Search individual databases or select multiple databases and search at one time. Relevant databases are:

Academic Search Complete - A valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text journals
Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre Plus - Accesses leading Australian, New Zealand and international journals, including social work
CINAHL Complete - Covers nursing and allied health topics with full text journals and evidence-based care sheets, covering nursing, and allied health topics, including social work
Psychology & Behavioral Science Collection – Covers psychology, behavioural sciences and related disciplines

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ERIC. The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is an online library of educational research and information, supported by the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education. It includes articles, reports and papers on counselling, therapies, addiction and more.

Gale Database Suite. Contains full text articles and reference sources including interactive databases. Search across a wide range of academic topics or select specialised individual databases such as Psychology.

Index New Zealand (INNZ) Indexes articles published in New Zealand. You can filter to research articles. Mostly abstracts, with some full text available.

ProQuest Academic. Provides access to databases across all major subject areas including social science. The collection includes dissertations, working papers and scholarly journals. It also holds the Whitireia Journal of Nursing, Health and Social Services (2020- present) previously known as Whitireia Nursing & Health Journal (2013 – 2019), Whitireia Nursing Journal (1994 - 2012).

Science Direct. Provides articles on scientific, technical and health research, including councelling and addictions.

Wiley Online Library. Full text access to The Journal of Advanced Nursing. All others have abstracts only. Covers subjects areas such as nursing, health, social, and physical sciences.

Specific Databases

EBSCOhost databases specific to nursing and allied health:

CINAHL Complete covers nursing and allied health topics with full text journals. Includes Counselling Psychology Quarterly

CINAHL Ultimate is the definitive resource for nursing and allied health research, providing full text as well as quick lessons, evidence-based care sheets, CEU models and research instruments.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic provides access to scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines

MEDLINE Complete provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection covers information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods

Sociology Source Ultimate covers aspects of human behavior and interaction. Topics range from gender identity, marriage and family, to demographics, political sociology, religion and socio-cultural anthropology

Gale Academic OneFile. Has articles from scholarly journals. Best for academic research. Includes journals on addiction and counselling.

Gale OneFile: Psychology. Covers research in all field of psychology.

Journals

Here is a selection of relevant journals. Some require you to log in with your institutional email address and network password (same password as Moodle), others are open access.

To locate articles on a specific topic, see the Finding information and research tab.

Whitireia Journal of Nursing, Health and Social Services is published annually. It has a website where issues from the last 10 years are freely available.

History of name change