LibGuides: SWK 710 Social Work Assessment and Diagnosis: Recommended Books and other sources

Relevant Websites

Flash Server link for Itunes University at Adelphi for psychiatric diagnostic videos:
DSM 5 Summary
DSM 5 summary from the American Psychiatric Association, with fact sheets and videos on significant changes.
National Alliance for the Mentally Ill
Easy-to-understand information about mental illnesses, mental health care, diagnosis, treatment and recovery.
National Institute of Mental Health
The mission of NIMH is to transform the understanding and treatment of mental illnesses through basic and clinical research, paving the way for prevention, recovery, and cure.
National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a mental health problem that can occur after someone goes through a traumatic event like war, assault, or disaster.
The Suitcase Exhibit
Life stories of people who lived at a New York State psychiatric hospital.
National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder
Website of the National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder.

Research Tip

Tip

The resources on the following pages were selected because they are useful for social work research. The resources include scholarly books, e-books, and article databases that contain academic peer reviewed journals relevant to Social Work research, and reliable websites from universities, the U. S. government and reliable organizations.

Your faculty member only wants to see valid, reliable, authoritative, sources for your research. That means sources written by experts or scholars who have credentials in the field that they are writing about.

Google and Wikipedia are usually not the best place to start. Keep in mind Google will give you thousands of hits but many will not be academically sound. Wikipedia is great for an overall outline of a topic, but content may not be authoritative. Google Scholar, however, can be most useful.