Recreation Therapy

Searches MEDLINE, the leading database of journal articles in the health sciences, including medicine, nursing, the allied health sciences, public health, and the basic sciences. Coverage is 1946 - present.

PsycINFO, from the American Psychological Association (APA), contains nearly 2.3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s. 97 percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. The database also includes information about the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others. Journal coverage, which spans 1887 to present, includes international material selected from approximately 2,050 periodicals in more than 25 languages. PsycINFO is indexed with controlled vocabulary from APA's Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms.

SPORTDiscus covers sport, physical fitness, exercise, sports medicine, sports science, physical education, kinesiology, sport law & legislation, college & university sport, disabled persons, doping, drugs, biomechanics, movement science, physical therapy, nutrition, exercise physiology, recreation, leisure studies, and related fields.

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Indexes the literature of nursing, occupational therapy and other health professions. Virtually all English-language publications are indexed along with the publications of the American Nurses Association and the National League for Nursing. Primary journals are indexed from the allied health fields.

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This abstract and citation database covers thousands of scholarly journals, books, and conference proceedings. Covering a broad range of disciplines, Scopus enables one to track, analyze, and visualize research. Output data at the institutional and author levels are available. Authors will find h-index, Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP), and citation counts helpful in demonstrating the impact of their work.

ERIC contains over 1,000 education-related journals that publish works on childhood disabilities, play therapy and other topics related to recreational therapy for youth.

Indexes and abstracts a broad array of basic social sciences journals, including interdisciplinary fields. Full text coverage begins in January 1995.

This online video collection, ideal for training in social work, psychology, multi-cultural studies, and other areas, includes hundreds of hours of streaming videos. The sessions are hosted and edited by leading psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and academics in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. Demonstrations, training videos, actual therapy sessions with real clients, reenacted sessions, lectures, discussions, and workshops give students and instructors exciting new learning tools. The streaming videos are accompanied by transcripts that are automatically in sync with the video. The text that is spoken is highlighted in real-time as the video is playing.

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SPORTDiscus covers sport, physical fitness, exercise, sports medicine, sports science, physical education, kinesiology, sport law & legislation, college & university sport, disabled persons, doping, drugs, biomechanics, movement science, physical therapy, nutrition, exercise physiology, recreation, leisure studies, and related fields.

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