Research Guides: Psychopathology in Children and Adolescents: Databases/Journals

Try Google Scholar!

Google Scholar allows you to search for more scholarly web resources than the usual Google Search Box.

Always evaluate your sources - what Google considers to be scholarly may not be considered scholarly by your professor.

The following tutorials will help you search within the PsycINFO database as well as utilize some of the database's extra features.

DOIs and How to Find Them in a Record
How to Find Peer-Reviewed Items
Limiting a Search to Methodology
Searching for Tests & Measures
In this tutorial learn how to search for tests and measures used by studies, find the fullt text of the original test/measurement, and find a list of psychological tests and measurements.
Author Affiliation Field
In this tutorial learn how to use the Author Affiliation field to limit searches to particular organizations/institutions with which an author is connected.
Classification Codes
In this tutorial learn what about the Classification Codes in PsycINFO and how to use them in searches.
Visual Search
In the following tutorial learn how to use the Visual Search tool.

Methodologies
The following link from the APA defines the various methods of investigation used in psychological research.
PsycINFO Classification Codes
The following is the list of classification codes used to organize records in the PsycINFO database according to primary subject matter.