SOW 4313 -- Generalist Social Work Practice with Families and Groups
Library Resource Page
Librarian: Rachael Cathcart

**EZ-Proxy is necessary to access databases and electronic journals from off-campus locations 

Search FAU Library's Online Catalog for Books and Print Journals

Search FAU Library's Collection of Electronic Journals (Best when you have a citation)

Selected Library Databases for Social Work Literature (Best when you only have a topic)

• PsycINFO
  PsycINFO contains more than 1.5 million references to journal articles, books, book chapters, technical reports and dissertations dealing with mental health, neuroscience, psychology, psychometrics, and related disciplines.
   
• Social Services Abstracts
  Provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.

   

• Social Sciences Full Text
  Subject areas include addiction studies, anthropology, area studies, community health and medical care, corrections, criminal justice, criminology, economics, environmental studies, ethics, family studies, gender studies, geography, gerontology, international relations, law, minority studies, planning and public administration, policy sciences, political science, psychiatry, psychology, public welfare, social work, sociology, and urban studies.

   

• Social Work Abstracts
  Contains more than 45,000 records, spanning 1977 to the present, from social work and other related journals on topics such as homelessness, AIDS, child and family welfare, aging, substance abuse, legislation, community organization, and more.

   

• NASW Register of Clinical Social Workers
  The NASW Register of Clinical Social Workers, 11th Edition provides a listing of clinical social workers who have met national standards for education and experience established by the NASW Competence Certification Commission on recommendation of the Committee on Clinical Social Work.

Selected Library Databases for Special Groups/Populations

• Criminal Justice Abstracts
  Contains comprehensive coverage of international journals, books, reports, dissertations, and unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines.

   

• Criminology:  A SAGE Full Text Collection
  Includes the full-text of 15 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back twenty years, encompassing over 4,100 articles. It covers such subjects as Criminal Justice, Juvenile Delinquency, Juvenile Justice, Corrections, Penology, Policing, Forensic Psychology, and Family and Domestic Violence.

   

• Education Full Text
  Subject areas include adult education, arts, athletics, comparative education, competency-based education, computers in education, continuing education, educational technology, elementary education, government funding, higher education, instructional media, language arts, library science, literacy standards, multicultural/ethnic education, parent-teacher relations, prayer in public schools, preschool education, religious education, school administration, science and mathematics, secondary education, special education, student counseling, teacher education, teacher evaluation, teaching methods, vocational education. 

   

• ERIC
  Covers education-related research from conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.

   

• Ethnic Newswatch
  Ethnic NewsWatch is an interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Designed to provide the other side of the story.

   

• Gender Watch
  Publications indexed include scholarly journals, magazines, newsletters, newspapers, books, pamphlets, conference proceedings, and government reports. Covers 175 titles. Topics: women's studies, gender studies, family studies, and gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender studies.

   

• Health and Wellness Resource Center
  Topics in health and medicine, medications, and wellness. Includes encyclopedias, directories, medical dictionary, magazines, journals, and newspapers.

   

• PsycArticles
  Contains the full text of articles from APA journals and selected EPF journals.
   
• Women's Study International
  This resource includes access to Women Studies Abstracts and Women's Studies Database. Coverage includes the core disciplines in Women’s Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. Women's Studies International supports curriculum development in the areas of sociology, history, political science & economy, public policy, international relations, arts & humanities, business and education. Nearly 800 essential sources include: journals, newspapers, newsletters, bulletins, books, book chapters, proceedings, reports, theses, dissertations, NGO studies, important websites & web documents, and grey literature.