InfoGuides: Social Work: Get Started

Core Resources

Social Work Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Designed specifically for social work issues, abstracts more than 450 social work and human services journals dating back to 1966. Includes theory and practice.

Available to a maximum of 4 simultaneous users, so please close out after you're finished.
Format: Citations; some full-text via link resolver, Coverage: 1966-present, Truncation and Wildcard: * and ?, Search Tips: Use hyphens for subjects described with a phrase (i.e. family-violence). Clicking a link in the 'Narrow Results by Subject' adds the subject term to the previous search. Browsable help pages.

Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive guide to over 2,700 contemporary testing instruments (and over 7,000 reaching back to 1938) within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership.
Truncation and Wildcard: * and ?, Search Tips: Use quotation marks to phrase search. Allows Boolean AND, OR and NOT searching.

NASW Practice Standards and Guidelines
Standards and guidelines adopted by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW).

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