Social Work and Counselling

Library

Reference Resources

Politics and Social Sciences Collection

Online access to a wide range of Oxford subject dictionaries and companions.

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Search the 'Social Sciences' and 'Medicine' subsets of this collection.

Sage eReference

Browse or choose from subjects such as Aging & Gerontology, Counseling and Psychotherapy, Family Studies, Social Issues, Social Work & Social Policy, and Sociology.

Databases

Family & Society +

Provides citations, abstracts and full-text articles relating to research, policy and practice issues about, or of relevance to, Australian families.

APA-FT

Australian Public Affairs, coverage includes business, health, current affairs, economics, humanities, law, literature, politics and social sciences.

Academic Search Complete

A multi-disciplinary  database providing full-text access to thousands of academic journals.

Psychology & Behavioural Sciences Collection

Covers topics such as emotional and behavioural characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.

Proquest Social Science Journals

Mostly full text for over 450 social sciences journals.
 

PsycINFO

A bibliographic database that provides citations with abstracts to the scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioural, and health sciences.
 

Social Work Abstracts

Produced by the National Association of Social Workers, this resource contains more than 45,000 records, spanning 1977 to the present.

Academic Research Library

Extensive multidisciplinary resource.

Sage Journals Online

Multidisciplinary, including social sciences.

Meditext

An Australian database covering medicine, nursing and health science issues including mental health. Includes references, full-text and links to external sources.

ebrary

Browse the extensive social sciences ebook collection.

Web Sites

Australian Institute of Family Studies

Statistical reports, conference proceedings, journals abstracts & AIFS publications in full-text.

Australian Bureau of Statistics

Information and statistics on a wide range of topics including ageing, children, disability, family, housing and crime. The 'Australian Social Trends' section provides information on a range of contemporary social issues.

Mental Health Council of Australia

Includes reports such as 'Not for service: experiences of injustice and despair in Mental Health Care in Australia 2005' and 'Out of Hospital Out of Mind'.

"Bringing them home"

Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families.

BUBL - social work

Provides a directory of social work resources in addiction, homelessness, ethnicity, disability, children, and mental health among other topics.

Social Work Search

Information and links to other websites of interest to social workers and other helping professionals.

Professional Associations

Australian Association Of Social Workers

Australian Counselling Association