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. This site includes a career center page, information about publications that support the counseling profession, student resources, and more.
American Psychological Association
The APA web site includes information for the public on a wide variety of topics related to psychology, employment information, suggestions about applying for graduate school in psychology, and more.
National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC)
This site includes information about National Counselor Certification from NBCC and links to state licensure information as well.
Professional Counselor - State of Wisconsin Department of Regulation and Licensing.

National Institute on Drug Abuse and Funding
A good source of information for teachers and parents, the site includes educational handouts and classroom activities and unit plans about drug abuse.
Grants and Funding Opportunities from National Institutes of Health.

CRESST (Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, & Student Testing)located in UCLA's Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, works to improve education by improving the assessment of student skills and knowledge and the evaluation of educational programs.
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. This site 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.
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 Andersen 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.

ERIC
The ERIC database is the world's largest source of education information. The database contains more than 950,000 abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice. Andersen Library owns the microfiche set of the ERIC ED documents. In addition, many are now available in partial/full text on the Internet.
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.

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.

SAMHSA's National Mental Health Information CenterThe Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration (SAMHSA) provides publications on mental health issues, a dictionary of mental health terms, information in Spanish, and much more.
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism from the National Institutes of Health
National Clearinghouse for Alcohol & Drug Information from the US Department of health and Human Services and SAMHSA
Children, Youth and Family Consortium from the University of Minnesota

Last Revised: sc 4/9/2009