Guides: Social Policy & Practice: Clinical Social Work (DSW)

Clinical Social Work @ Penn

Doctorate in Social Work (DSW) Dissertations
ScholarlyCommons.
DSW dissertation authors should submit their completed dissertations to ScholarlyCommons, Penn's institutional repository. In ScholarlyCommons, use the left-sidebar link, "Upload to Doctorate in Social Work (DSW) Dissertations", to create a new account before submitting your dissertation. Author help and submission guidelines are also linked from the Scholarly Commons web page's left sidebar.
The Clinician
2009-present.
"The University of Pennsylvania DSW Student Publication".

Databases

Bibliographic Databases (linking to fulltext)

APA PsycINFO
The American Psychological Association's comprehensive indexing and abstracting service for the professional and scholarly literature in psychology and related fields.
Sociological Abstracts (inc. Social Services Abstracts)
Covers sociology, social work, social psychology, criminology, and related fields.
Social Work Abstracts
PTSDPubs (formerly PILOTS : Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress)
A bibliographic database produced by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for PTSD. The database provides citations and abstracts to the worldwide literature on PTSD and other psychological effects of trauma.
CINAHL
Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature.
MEDLINE
The National Library of Medicine's comprehensive database of medical literature. MEDLINE on the Ovid platform offers powerful search tools that PubMed, its free counterpart, lacks.

PubMed Plus
PubMed is the public access version to Medline, the premier database for biomedical literature. PubMedPlus is an enhanced version with links to full-text journals that the Penn Library subscribes to.

Fulltext Databases + Ebook Collections

Oxford Scholarship Online : Social Work
More than 200 scholarly ebooks from Oxford University Press. Includes the book series, Pocket guides to social work research methods.
Oxford Clinical Psychology
Fulltext ebook collection with 300+ titles, with several useful reference series, including:
• ABCT Clinical Practice Series.
• Best Practices in Forensic Mental Health Assessments.
• Oxford Guides to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
• Programs That Work.
• Treatments That Work.
• Specialty Competencies in Professional Psychology.
The interface offers filtering for specialties, including clinical adult psychology and counseling psychology, for disorders and clinical problems.
APA PsycBooks
Fulltext for more than 4,500 scholarly and professional books published by the American Psychological Association, with many classic works from various additional publishers.
APA PsycArticles
Fulltext for American Psychological Association journals, from their first issue to today.
Psychiatry Online
The American Psychiatric Association's fulltext collection, providing fulltext for APsychiatrAssn journals and selected books, including textbooks and reference works. Includes the complete Diagnostic & Statistical Manual (DSM) archive.
Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing (PEP) Archive
Fulltext ebook and ejournal platform, also offering streaming video. Covers classic psychoanalysis, including Freud's Gesammelte Werke and the Strachey translation series.
ScienceDirect [Penn only]
Full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters from more than 2,500 journals and almost 20,000 books.

Online Reference Books

Encyclopedias + Dictionaries

The professional counselor's desk reference (2nd ed.)
Online, Springer, 2015.
Provides contemporary insight and practical strategies for working with the complexity of real-life issues related to assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of diverse clients.
The encyclopedia of clinical psychology
5 vols. Wiley, 2015.
Encyclopedia of Social Work
Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology
International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences
PEP consolidated psychoanalytic glossary (2016 ed)
Psychoanalytic Electronic Archive, 2016.
A polyglot compilation of terms, definitions, and discussions drawn from several published glossaries.
Oxford Dictionary of Psychology

Handbooks + Lit Review Sources

Also see Oxford Clinical Psychology (above).

Oxford Bibliographies : Social Work
Annotated bibliographies (several authored by Penn SP2 faculty) on topics in social work. Topical clusters covered : Field of practice; Foundation knowledge; Methods/Perspectives; Population group; Principles/Ideologies; Social problems; Social sectors/Social processes; Social welfare policies and programs; Social work profession.
The Campbell Collaboration
See The Campbell Library for published systematic reviews of interventions in crime and justice, as well as social welfare, education, and international development. Campbell systematic reviews also appear in the open-access ejournal, Campbell Systematic Reviews.
Social Workers' Desk Reference, 4th ed.
Online. Oxford University Press, 2022. Short chapters that make up this comprehensive guide to social work practice, covering social worker roles, functions, and fields, on values, ethics, and licensing standards, theoretical foundations and treatment approaches, assessment, and working with specific populations.
Theory and practice in clinical social work / Jerrold R. Brandell, ed. 3rd ed.
(On Order) Cognella, 2021.
"The most comprehensive anthology of clinical practice in the field of clinical social work."
Routledge handbook of social work practice research.
Routledge, 2020.
Pocket Guides to Social Work Research Methods
Oxford University Press book/ebook series. Example titles:
• Culturally competent research : using ethnography as a meta-framework.
• Mixed methods research.
• A social justice approach to survey design and analysis
Case studies in social work practice. 3rd ed.
Real-world demonstrations of social work theories and concepts applied in practice.
Routledge handbook to social care work around the world
Routledge, 2018.
Routledge international handbook of social work supervision.
Routledge, 2021.
APA handbook of clinical psychology
5 vols. American Psychological Association, 2016. Individual volumes cover "Roots and branches", theory and research, applications and methods, psychopathology and health, education and profession.
Oxford handbook of clinical psychology
Oxford University Press, 2014.
Handbook of evidence-based practice in clinical psychology
Cambridge handbook of research methods in clinical psychology
Cambridge University Press, 2020.
SAGE encyclopedia of abnormal and clinical psychology
7 vols. SAGE, 2017.
Stevens' handbook of experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience, developmental and social psychology. 4th ed.
5 vols. Wiley, 2018.
The standard reference work on experimental psychology, with the 4th ed adding coverage of cognitive neuroscience.
Wiley handbook of cognitive behavioral therapy
Wiley, 2014.

Diagnoses

Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders [electronic resource] : DSM-5.
DSM-5 is used by health professionals, social workers, and forensic and legal specialists to diagnose and classify mental disorders. The criteria are concise and explicit, intended to facilitate an objective assessment of symptom presentations in a variety of clinical settings- inpatient, outpatient, partial hospital, consultation-liaison, clinical, private practice, and primary care.
Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders : DSM-5 (paper)
There are non-circulating copies at Van Pelt Library and the Holman Biotech Commons.
CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment: Psychiatry, 2e
This book emphasizes the practical features of clinical diagnosis and patient management. This is the chapter on Psychiatry.
Kaplan & Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry (9th edition)
Known as "CTP," this thorough text on all aspects of mental health covers psychotherapies, biological therapies, child psychiatry, geriatric psychiatry, and cognitive disorders.

Tests & Test Instruments

The Penn Libraries do not have a standalone test collection, owing to acquisitions restrictions and service limitations. See this Penn Libraries guide for a detailed presentation of tests and test documentation available through the Penn Libraries, with links to online resources where available:

Tests and Measurements (Penn Libraries guide)

APA PsycTests
The American Psychological Association's online inventory of psychological test and measures, primarily unpublished tests. Provides fulltext instruments for many tests, with some additional materials (scoring sheets, answer keys, test manuals). Linkages to APA PsycINFO and APA PsycARTICLES for easy access to the first published report of each test.

Clinical Videos & Multimedia Resources

Psychotherapy.net
More than 370 streaming videos. Now with a social work collection. Includes live and reenacted therapy sessions, master classes, therapist interviews, and other psychotherapy-related documentaries. Videos include searchable transcripts and PDF instructor's manuals.
Mindscape Commons
Immersive and interactive content in mental health. Including 200 VR experiences, with serious games and apps, for teaching and research in counseling, social work, psychology, health sciences, and related programs.
APA PsycTherapy
The American Psychological Association's streaming video platform for candid, unscripted psychotherapy sessions. Provides more than 560 videos, with search filtering for therapist name, therapy topic, and therapeutic approach. Each videostream includes an abstract with detailed indexing that includes client demographics; videos also include searchable transcripts.
Microtraining Associates (Academic Video Online)
More than 500 mental health training video. Includes searchable transcripts.
SexSmartFilms
Streaming video collection on sexuality and gender identity, education, research, and therapy.
Sociometrics
Survey datasets on health topics, program and curriculum documentation for delivery to students, patients, and community members by health educators, and tools to enhance the professional development of health professionals. See especially:
• Evidence-Based Interventions & Programs (EBIs/EBPs) .
• Capacity-Building Tools.

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Databases

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Online Reference Books

Encyclopedias + Dictionaries

Handbooks + Lit Review Sources

Diagnoses

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Clinical Videos & Multimedia Resources

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