Databases & E-Reference Materials

Provides a comprehensive critical account of the whole field of eating disorders, incorporating both basic knowledge and a synthesis of the most recent developments in the area. Topics covered include the basic science of appetite control, neurotransmitters involved in eating, psychological factors, medical complications, and treatment approaches.

The comprehensive Handbook of Evidence-Based Psychotherapies provides an overview of the current evidence-base for psychological therapies and major psychological disorders. The text offers a pluralistic approach, covering cognitive and behavioral therapies as well as counseling and humanistic approaches.

Covers significant issues, including the major instruments and procedures, cognitive and educational assessment, and cross-cultural sensitivity and ethics. This volume includes case studies that illustrate culturally sensitive procedures and tables that highlight comparisons between particular measures, competencies, and assessment practices.,

The Handbook of Psychodiagnostic Testing is a resource for performing psychological assessments. The text takes the reader from client referral to finished report, demonstrating how to synthesize details of personality and pathology into a document that is focused, coherent, and clinically meaningful.

Provides access to an archive of raw social science data for research and instruction. As a member of ICPSR, the OU community has unlimited access and downloads; sign up for an ICPSR login to access content. All questions about ICPSR should be directed to the campus Official Representative for ICPSR, Dr. Ann Beutel, Department of Sociology. Electronic access to ICPSR is funded by the College of Arts and Sciences.

The Intelligent Clinician's Guide to the DSM-5 explores all revisions to the latest version of the Diagnostic and Statistics Manual and shows clinicians how they can best apply the strong points and shortcomings of psychiatry's most contentious resource. This resource sifts through the many public controversies and clinical debates surrounding the drafting of the manual and shows how they inform a modern understanding of psychiatric illness, diagnosis, and treatment.

Provides access to streaming video supporting classes in the arts, business, health, media/communication, science, humanities and education. 

NOTE: Kanopy video access is mediated. This means that any video not currently licensed for use will require the user to request access. Access is being enabled for class use with instructor approval.

Learning and Memory: A Comprehensive Reference is a reference work covering the present state of research in the neurobiology and psychology of learning and memory. Topics include the neurochemistry and neurobiology of learning at the cellular and synaptic levels, systems neurobiology, the study of remarkable capabilities in animals, ethological and behavioristic analyses, mechanisms, psychology, and disorders of learning and memory in humans.

The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying provides a historical and cross-cultural perspective on all aspects of death and dying, including biological, medical, social, sociological, psychological, religious, and philosophical.

Index and abstracts to journals published internationally, covering medicine, dentistry, nursing, and other health fields.