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PsycBOOKS (PsycBOOKS)

Full text chapters of books in general and specicialized psychology

Why select this database?

  • Includes full text from approximately 600 books on all aspects of psychology with more than 10,000 individual chapters drawn from more than 500 APA books, 100 out-of-print books, and 75 archival resources in psychology.
  • Includes more than 1,500 entries from the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology.
  • Updated with new releases on a monthly basis.
Database details
Subjects

Psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines:

anthropology nursing
business pharmacology
education physiology
law psychiatry
linguistics sociology
medicine  
Sources 600+ books
Number of records 17,100+
Dates covered 1806-2004
Updated Monthly
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Keyword kw: music and therapy
Abstract ab: culture+
Accession number no: 2004-95036-002
Age group ag: 30-39
Age group phrase ag= 390 very old 85 yrs & older
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Author au: obrien
karon m o'brien
Author affiliation aa: australian national
Author phrase au= obrien marion
o'brien karen m
[last name first]
Book type phrase bt= classic book
Cited reference cr: anxiety
Cited reference phrase cr= smith j m 1964 spatial ability its educational and social sigificance san diego knapp
Classification descriptor phrase cd= 2820 cognitive & perceptual development
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Conference name cn: international
Conference name phrase cn= language testing research colloquium
Content type ct: chapter
Content type phrase ct= original chapter
Corporate author phrase co= canadian psychiatric association
Date of entry da: kw:psycholog* and da:20040101
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Date revised dv: 20050430 [date a record was modified in the database]
Descriptor de: dance
Descriptor phrase de= dance therapy
Document type phrase dt= book
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Geographic coverage phrase gc= australia
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Identifier id: teen* parent+
Intended audience phrase ia= juvenile
Major descriptor phrase mj= measurement
Methodology mg: empirical
Methodology phrase mg= empirical study
Minor descriptor phrase mn= art education
Number of cited references nr: 40
Personal author phrase pn= o'brien karen m
[last name first]
Population group po: animal
Population group phrase po= 10 human
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Publication date pd: 2004
Publication type phrase pt= edited book
Publisher pb: mcgraw-hill
Series title se: science conference series
Standard number sn: 0198524145
Subject su: therap*
Subject phrase su= music therapy
Table of contents tc: art therap*
Tests and measures tm: test
Title ti: music therapy
Title phrase ti= music as symbolic expression analytical music therapy
Year yr: 2004
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