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• Become familiar with terminology related to the study of psychology.
  

These titles are in the Reference Section of the O'Neill Library. These are just a few of the books you will find; there is more available for browsing.

•  Encyclopedia of Social Psychology (O'Neill Reference HM1007 .E53 2007) Sage, 2007.


• The Encyclopedia of Stress.  (O'Neill Reference QP82.2 .S8 E53 2007) Boston, Elsevier, 2007.


• The Consise Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science. (O'Neill Reference BF31 .E52 2004) John Wiley, 2004.
  


• The Encyclopedia of Counseling.  (O'Neill Reference BF636.54 .E53 2008) Sage, 2008.
  

• Dictionary of Psychology (BC Community Only). Oxford Press, 2006.
• Dictionary of the Social Sciences. (BC community only). Craig L. Calhoun, ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

• Encyclopedia of Psychology (BC community only). Alan Kazdin, editor in chief.

               Volume 1 (Abortion to Bystander Phenomenon)

               Volume 2(Calkins-Determinants of Intelligence)

               Volume 3 (Developmental Agenda-Goodenough)

               Volume 4 (Government Regulation-Hamilton Rating Scale)

               Volume 5 (Learning-Oppositional Defiant Disorder)

               Volume 6 (Optimism-Rappaport)

               Volume 7  (Rape - Systems Theory)

               Volume 8 (Taine-Zubin)

• International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (BC community only). Neil J. Smelser, Paul D. Baltes, editors.


• Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Psychology (BC community only). S.R. Anthony & Miles Hewstone, editors.


• Psychology: the Key Concepts. (BC community only). Graham Roberts, editor.

• Blackwell Handbook of Adolescence.(BC community only). Edited by Gerald Adams and Michael Berzonsky Oxford : Blackwell, 2005.


• Cambridge Companion to Freud. Jerome Neu, editor, Cambridge University Press, 1991(BC community only).


• Cambridge Companion to Jung. (BC community only). Polly Young-Eisendrath and Terence Dawson, editors, Cambridge University Press, 1997. 


• Handbook of Childhood Cognitive Development (BC community only). Edited by Usha C. Goswami, Oxford : Blackwell, 2004.


• Handbook of Childhood Social Development (BC Community Only) Smith & Heart, editors. Blackwell, 2004.


• Handbook of Cognition (BC Community Only) Lamberts, ed. London: Sage Publications, 2005.


• The Oxford Companion to the Mind (BC Community Only) Richard L. Gregory, ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.


• Handbook of Cultural Psychology (BC Community Only) Kitayama, ed. New York: Guilford, 2007.


• Handbook of Psychophysiology (BC Community Only) Cacioppo, ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.


• Social Psychology: Handbook of Basic Principles (BC Community Only). Kruglanki, ed. New York: Guilford Press, 2007.


• Textbook of Psychiatry (Online Source: BC community only). American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc, 2008.