Art Psychotherapy: electronic resources

• Art psychotherapy subject guide[pdf] 
• Contact the Subject Librarian for Art Psychotherapy: Helen Stephen

Online indexes and abstracts

Goldsmiths IT username and password required unless otherwise stated.

• PsycINFO - abstract database of psychological literature in behavioural and social sciences from 1800s to the present.
• Psychological and Behavioural Sciences Collection - full text resource, can be used in conjunction with PsycINFO.
• Art Full Text and Art Index Retrospective - art, art history and design periodicals, 1926-present, some full-text articles.
• Art Bibliographies Modern - an index to 20th century visual arts exhibition catalogues, periodicals and books.
• Sociological Abstracts 
• ISI Citation Index - Arts and Humanities, Social Science and Science Citation Index. 1970-present. 
• ASSIA (Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts) - health and social sciences. 1987-current.
• Medline - medical bibliographic database, available through ISI Web of Knowledge.
• Social Care Online - from Social Care Institute for Excellence, freely available

INSCAPE is not indexed by any of the above services.  See Electronic journals below.  Its successor, the International Journal of Art Therapy, has some articles indexed by Art Bibliographies Modern.

Note that staff and students on HE level courses who join Senate House library have remote access to their wide range of web resources.

Electronic journals

• The Arts in Psychotherapy (full text from 1997) is available via Elsevier ScienceDirect - Goldsmiths IT username and password required
• The International Journal of Art Therapy: INSCAPE - this journal continues INSCAPE and is available in the library and electronically from the library catalogue. Some content pages from back issues of INSCAPE are available from the British Association of Art Therapists.

Art psychotherapy resources on the Internet

• British Association of Art Therapists - the professional organisation for Art Therapists in Britain, has useful information about art therapy in practice and links to other sites.

Tutorial

• Internet Detective - a free online tutorial helping develop Internet research skills. It looks at the critical thinking required when using the Internet for research and offers practical advice on evaluating the quality of web sites.
• Internet Psychology - another free online tutorial for developing research skills and identifying online resources for Psychology. 

Research

• Research Ethics Guidebook - guide for researchers which includes:  advice on writing research proposals, ethics committee approval and issues arising during fieldwork.

Other internet resources

• Arts and Healing Network - a US based online resource celebrating the connection between art and healing.
• British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
• Mental Health Care - from Institute of Psychiatry and South London and Maudsley NHS Trust giving information about mental health and illness, research and personal stories.
• The Mental Health Foundation - charity working in mental health and learning disabilities.
• MIND (National Association for Mental Health)
• National Autistic Society - including Autism Data  - database of published material on all aspects of autism, open for everyone to access on the web.  It lists over 24000 published research papers, books, articles and other materials.  There is also a library in Central London open to professionals by appointment only.
• SANE - information, support and research charity for mental illness
• PsychNet-UK - independent private website for mental health professionals.
• Encyclopaedia of Psychology