Welcome to your Counselling Subject Research Guide
Watch the video to meet your Academic and Digital Library Liaison – Stephanie Fair, then have a look in the sections below to find useful and relevant resources for your course.
If you are not able to find what you are looking for please contact your Academic Digital Library Liaison, listed at the bottom of the page, who will be happy to help you with all library and subject research needs.
Key eBooks
Library Search
eCore is an essential tool for finding, via one single search box, information from the physical and online library resources available to you, including:
- Research Starters
- Library catalogue
- Ebooks
- Magazines articles
- News and newspaper articles
- Encyclopedia articles
- Additional Online Resources
Journal Spotlight
Journal of Humanistic Counseling
The Journal of Humanistic Counseling explores humanistic counseling practices and experiential-developmental counseling processes, broadly conceived. We aim to disseminate contemporary humanistic scholarship and research that supports practitioner growth, training program development, and the vital promotion of inclusivity and diversity across worldviews.
This is the official journal of the Association for Humanistic Counseling (AHC).
eBook Spotlight
Philosophy, Counseling, and Psychotherapy
Can philosophy help ordinary people confront their personal or interpersonal problems of living? Can it help a couple whose marriage is on the rocks, or someone going through a midlife crisis, or someone depressed over the death of a significant other?
Through a diverse and contrasting set of readings authored by prominent philosophers, philosophical counselors, and psychologists, this volume carefully explores the nature of philosophical counseling or practice and its relationship to psychological counseling and psychotherapy.
Journal Spotlight
Journal of Mental Health Counseling
A professional journal covering the field of mental health counseling, from theory to research to practice. Publishes articles on current theory, therapeutic applications, original research, and professionalism.
This is the official journal of the American Mental Health Counselors Association (AMHCA).
Podcasts
Podcasts are a good way to keep up with the latest discussions and trends related to your field of study. Here you can find relevant Podcasts, from trusted organisations and authors, for your subject area.
- Freud in Focus
- Carl Rogers
- Susie Orbach – In Therapy
- Emmy van Deurzen – Existential Me
- BF Skinner and the Superstition Pigeon
- Carl Rogers and Person-Centred Approach
- Talking Therapies: Understanding Addiction
- Understanding the Science of Addiction
- Talking Therapies: Grief and the state of disbelief
- BACP Ethical Framework, interview with Tim Bond
- Compassionate Supervision
- Counselor Self-Attunement and Emotional Awareness
Clickview
ClickView is Edinburgh College’s media player.
It contains TV & Radio programmes recorded from free-to-air channels and Audio & Video produced by staff.
For sign in guidance, please visit our
Clickview page.
Here are some relevant videos for your subject area:
Grief & Addictions
Psychology and Counselling Approaches
Online Resources
Credo
A useful resource for all subject areas, featuring reference works such as encyclopedias and dictionaries alongside textbooks.
You can display your search results in a traditional list layout, or you can choose to have them displayed in a concept map where linking themes, people, and events can be explored easily to expand upon your research topic.
Gale
Using Gales PowerSearch you can search across newspapers, scholarly journals, and general reference magazines for content on all topics and subjects. Read current and historical newspaper coverage from local, national and international press, browse general magazine content, and explore articles from scholarly journals and other authoritative sources.
Referencing
Referencing at Edinburgh College: Online Course
Our online course (approx. 30min) provides a simple introduction to referencing and plagiarism using the Harvard system of referencing. If you are new to referencing this is the ideal place to start. We provide introductory guidance on what referencing is, why you need to reference, and how to correctly reference some of the most common sources in your assignments.
The course is divided into 7 sections. Sections have short activities that you can undertake to test your own understanding of the topics you have read about.
Cite Them Right: Referencing Support
This is a comprehensive guide to referencing and plagiarism. Cite Them Right provides full guidance on how to correctly reference all sources in your assignments, with guidance available on Harvard and numerous other styles of referencing.
You can use Cite The Right to help format references, look up answers to your referencing questions, support with paraphrasing and summarising from sources, and follow an in depth tutorial to test your knowledge and learn even more.
Downloadable Guide
This is a double-sided A4 sheet that you can print and take away with you. It details how to reference some of the more common sources you may need to reference and uses the Harvard system of referencing. Please be aware that this is most easily understood after completing our Referencing at Edinburgh College course (approx. 30mins).
Support
Contact Stephanie Fair at stephanie.fair@edinburghcollege.ac.uk
Find contact information for the Library team by visiting our Contact and Support page