Counselor Education

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Resources for All Counselors

American Counseling Association
This is the home page of the American Counseling Association, the world's largest association representing professional counselors. There are links to Students in Counselor Education, Employment, and Resources and Books.
American Psychological Association
The APA web site makes available over 7,000 public information documents, which include APA mission statement, membership information, publications, employment, and help in applying for graduate school in psychology.
Wisconsin Certification Board
National Board for Certified Counselors and Affiliates
Professional Counselor - State of Wisconsin Department of Regulation and Licensing.

CRESST - Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing
The CRESST mission focuses on the assessment of educational quality, addressing persistent problems in the design and use of assessment systems to serve multiple purposes.
Psych Central
Psych Central is the oldest psychology and mental health directory on the Internet, begun in 1992 as an index to mental health and support newsgroups. It now indexes over 2,000 resources, and offers a wealth of information on mental health disorders, symptoms, treatments, and interactive online quizzes.

Counseling Today Online from the American Counseling Association
The online news source for professional counselors.
Journal of Counseling and Development (0748-9633)
The quarterly flagship journal of the American Counseling Association. JCD publishes articles that have broad interest for a readership composed mostly of counselors and other mental health professionals who work in private practice, schools, colleges, community agencies, hospitals, and government.
LexisNexis Academic
There are three different LexisNexis databases. Use LexisNexis Academic to search international, national, state, local and legal news related to counseling. Use LexisNexis Congressional to track legislation that affects counselors and the services that counselors offer. Use LexisNexis Statistical to gather data on a wide variety of topics.
Academic Search Premier (Ebscohost)
Academic Search Premier provides abstracts and indexing for over 3,200 scholarly journals covering the social sciences, humanities, education and more. Many of the articles are in full-text. Use Academic Search as a starting place for interdisciplinary topics.

ERIC
The ERIC database contains abstracts of journals and documents (book chapters, conference proceedings, etc) on educational research and practice, including the topics of school counseling and mental health assessment. Many ERIC documents are available in full text in the ERIC database. Older ERIC Documents may be found in the ERIC microfiche collection located in the Periodicals Microform Room on the first floor of the University Library.
Education Full Text
Education Full Text covers 423 core international periodicals, monographs, and yearbooks. Topics include a wide range of contemporary education issues. Includes abstracts from January 1994 and indexing from June 1983. Full-text coverage begins in January 1996.
PsycINFO
PsycINFO contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, and books in psychology, as well as psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. Includes PsycLit database.
Mental Measurements Yearbook
Provides test users with descriptive information, references, and critical reviews of tests. Contains editions 9 (1985) - 15 (2002).

ERIC
The ERIC database contains abstracts of journals and documents (book chapters, conference proceedings, etc) on educational research and practice, including the topics of school counseling and mental health assessment. Many ERIC documents are available in full text in the ERIC database. Older ERIC Documents may be found in the ERIC microfiche collection located in the Periodicals Microform Room on the first floor of the University Library.
Education Full Text
Education Full Text covers 423 core international periodicals, monographs, and yearbooks. Topics include a wide range of contemporary education issues. Includes abstracts from January 1994 and indexing from June 1983. Full-text coverage begins in January 1996.
PsycINFO
PsycINFO contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, and books in psychology, as well as psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. Includes PsycLit database.
Mental Measurements
Provides test users with descriptive information, references, and critical reviews of tests. Contains editions 9 (1985) - 15 (2002).

PsycINFO
PsycINFO contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, and books in psychology, as well as psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. Includes PsycLit database.
Mental Measurements
Provides test users with descriptive information, references, and critical reviews of tests.

Last Revised: rr 5/27/2008