Presentation by Peter Gaviorno of the American Psychological Association to the Eduserv Mental Health Resources Focus Group meeting on 17 April 2015

1. APA Databases & E-Resources
Global Links to the World of
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences
Chest Mental Health Focus Group
Peter Gaviorno
Senate House, University of London
17 April 2015

2. Society Perspective
• Knowledge development and dissemination priorities
of the publishing program
• Close connections with field through members
• Partnerships and alliances
• Publisher of both primary and
secondary information products
and services

3. As an Academic Discipline,
Psychology Is One of
the Largest Fields of Study
• 1 million students in the USA enroll each
year in an introductory psychology course
• Number of psychologists in the world
surpasses 1 million, including
– 300,000 in Europe
– 277,000 in the USA
– 200,000 in Latin America
– 223,000 RoW

4. Psychology Touches
Every Aspect of Life
• Physical health
• Education
• Environment
• Work settings
• Law enforcement
• Media
• Human interactions of all kinds

5. Market & Research Trends
• Increasing global awareness of psychology as a
science
• Increasing global research outputs
• Growth of global multidisciplinary research
initiatives
• Psychology is viewed as a “hub” science due to
its multidisciplinary nature

6. Market & Research Trends
• Evidence-based practice is becoming a mainstay
of clinical delivery
• Emphasis on integrated health will provide greater
access to behavioral health professionals
• Increasing public awareness of psychology
• Rising student levels

7. Users Needs & Technology
• Rise of collaboration & sharing
• Mobile technologies change interaction with
content
• Demand for big data just beginning
• Increased capabilities for intelligence gathering,
supported by sematic tools

8. Psychology- A
“hub” Science

9. Markets Served by APA Products
• Academic: Global universities & colleges (including
undergrads, grads, researchers, educators)
• Hospital/Healthcare: Clinical Health Centers, Medical
Centers, Teaching Hospitals, & Independent Practice
• Corporate: Business & I/0, HR, Law Firms, Pharma,
Human Factors, Justice System
• Government: Health & Human Services, Defense, Military,
Education, Commerce, etc.
• Public Libraries: General Public
• Primary & Secondary Schools: Educators/Administrators
• Others: Non-profit associations, NGO’s, psych institutes

10. Topics Trending on APA PsycNET®
• ADHD
• Eating disorders
• Mindfulness
• Divorce
• Sleep deprivation
• Exercise
• Parenting
• Depression
• Parenting & child
placement

11. PsycARTICLES®

12. PsycARTICLES®
Update
• PsycARTICLES is a database of full-text articles
from peer-reviewed journals published by the
APA, the Canadian Psychological Association, &
Hogrefe & Huber
 Covers 102 journals and contains
more than 187,000 full-text articles
 Added 9 new titles in 2014
 Added over 16,000 articles in 2014

13. PsycARTICLES®
New Titles in 2015
• Behavior Analysis: Research and Practice
• Behavioral Development Bulletin
• Motivation Science
• Psychology & Neuroscience
• Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
in Psychology
• Translational Issues in Psychological Science

14. PsycARTICLES
®
Growth
• 1998 – 35 journals covered at launch
• 2002 – 44 journals covered at beginning of
consortium agreement
• 2006 – Journal coverage back to Volume 1,
Issue 1 begins
• 2009 – 75 journals covered
• 2011 – 84 journals covered
• 2015 – 102 journals covered

15. Why PsycARTICLES®
?
• Nearly 70% of all APA journals received 2013 JCR
Impact Factors®
• APA journals received 18 “Top 10” rankings in
their respective subject categories within Social
Sciences and Science
• The most cited journal in psychology was the
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology with
53,575 citations
• Psychological Bulletin has one of the highest
Impact Factors in psychology at 14.392
Based on 2013 data

16. PsycBOOKS®
or
APA Books®
E-Collections

17. APA Books®
2015 marks
the 26th
year of
the modern APA
Books publishing
program
In 2014,
APA released
its 1,500th
book
published since
1989
Publishes ground-breaking
work anchored in scholarly
knowledge, informed by
empirical research, &
translated into practical
applications

18. APA Books®
E-Collections
PsycBOOKS®
–
Bigger and Better!
Content • APA-published scholarly
and professional books
•1,000+ APA-published
scholarly and professional
books
• Nearly 3,000 classic
resources in psychology
•All titles in APA Handbooks
in Psychology®
Series
• Exclusive electronic
release of Encyclopedia
of Psychology
Full-Text PDF Yes Yes
Annual
Requirement
One-time purchase with
renewable access fee
Annual subscription

19. APA Books®
E-Collections
PsycBOOKS®
Search
Platform(s)
• APA PsycNET®
• APA PsycNET
• EBSCO
• Ovid Technologies
• ProQuest
License Type Purchase model Annual license
Time Period
Covered
Copyright years 2001
through 2015
From 1620 through
2015 copyright year*
* Copyright year runs July 1 through June 30 of each year. Monthly updates to PsycBOOKS will
include all APA content published through the current copyright year on a rolling month-to-month
basis.

20. APA Books®
E-Collections
PsycBOOKS®
12-Month
Embargo on Newly
Published Books
No No!
Updates Annual (full copyright year) Monthly
MARC Records Yes Yes
Pricing Model
Single fee, site-based
pricing
Tiered by institution
type and FTE level
Consortia Discounts Yes Yes
Total # of Chapters Nearly 8,300 Over 60,000

21. APA Handbooks
in Psychology®
Series

22. APA Handbooks in Psychology®
:
New or Coming in 2015
• Personality and Social Psychology
• Career Intervention
• Forensic Psychology
• Clinical Geropsychology
• Human Systems Integration – April
• Men and Masculinities – July
• Psychology and Juvenile Justice – August
• Nonverbal Communication – September

23. Previously Published
APA Handbooks in Psychology®
:
• Industrial and
Organizational
Psychology
• Ethics in Psychology
• Educational Psychology
• Research Methods in
Psychology
• Addiction Syndrome
• Counseling Psychology
• Behavior Analysis
• Psychology, Religion,
and Spirituality
• Sexuality and
Psychology
• Testing and Assessment
in Psychology
• Multicultural
Psychology

24. PsycTESTS®

25. PsycTESTS®
Content Coverage
Some examples of the diverse array of subject areas and the types of
measures, scales, inventories, questionnaires, and tests included:
•Aptitude and Achievement
Measures
•Neuropsychological Assessment
•Educational Measures
•Intelligence Tests
•Developmental Measures
•Competency Measures
•Scales for Beliefs,
Relationships, or Expectancies
•Developmental Measures
• Personality Assessment
• Aggression, Coping, or
Functional Status Questionnaires
• Occupational Measures
• Racial/Ethnic Identity Scales
• Resilience, Anger Response, or
Substance Abuse Inventories
• Military Testing
• Tests from the Archives of the
History of American Psychology
(AHAP)

26. PsycTESTS®
Comprehensive Test Coverage
• Currently 27,120 Master Test Profiles
• September 2011 launch included 2,500 records
• Over 800 commercial test records
• Covers from 1896 to present, with 68% of tests from
2000 & later; 82% from 1990 & later
• 76% of test records contain actual tests or test items
(currently 18,324)
• Includes access to tests in more than 50 languages

27. PsycTESTS®
Value Proposition
No other tests & measures database
has the same features and functions:
• HaPI (Health and Psychosocial Instruments) –
Bibliographic references only of unpublished tests
• Mental Measurements Yearbook Online – Reviews of
commercial tests
• Tests in Print – Bibliographic references to commercial
tests

28. PsycTESTS®
Searches
Memory/Cognition:
•Memory Questionnaire
•Everyday Cognition Scale
•Star Trek Knowledge Test
Law
•Fear of Crime Scale
•Violent Values Scale
•Negative Family Life Events
Index
Business:
•Work Values Measure
•Career Competencies Indicator
•Team Learning Scale
Sales/Marketing:
•Follower Sales Behavior Measure
•Sales Potential Questionnaire
•Personal Selling Ethics Scale-2

29. Overview of PsycTESTS®
Database Contents

30. Why PsycTESTS®
?
Why would you find this database useful?
•Access thousands of actual test instruments and test items
for immediate download & use in research & teaching
•Use a resource that is international in scope, with a
growing number of tests in more than 40 languages

31. Why PsycTESTS®
?
Why would you find this database useful?
•Browse tests using the test name or acronym, author,
construct, or year & get directly to the test record
•Create detailed searches across a variety of customized
fields such as construct, index terms, author, format,
population, & so on

32. PsycTESTS®
New Features
& Enhancements
• Other Versions – Hyperlinks to original, revision and
translated versions of a test
• Test Location – Indicates where test is located in the
source document
• Instrument Type – Categorizes most tests into 15
different format types-rating scale, survey, check list, etc.
• Classification – Classifies each test into one of 31
categories: anxiety and depression, aptitude and
achievement, etc.
• Author ID – list to all author pubs. (coming in 2015)

35. PsycTHERAPY®

36. PsycTHERAPY®
Authoritative Content for Learning Excellence
• Spontaneous therapy demonstrations videos
• Designed for students, faculty, & professionals in
psychotherapy & counseling
• Specifically developed to show how master therapists
use different approaches & techniques with individuals,
couples, & families

37. PsycTHERAPY®
Authoritative Content for Learning Excellence
• 215+ topics
• 86 therapeutic approaches
• 100 expert therapists
• Currently 363 videos
• New videos cover phobias, addiction recovery,
& issues surrounding social class
• Now includes brief biographies on all therapists

38. PsycTHERAPY®
Facts
• APA will add 40-80 new videos per year
• None of these videos have ever been seen before
• Many videos show the first time the therapist and
participant meet
• Others (labeled “Session 1 of 6,” “Session 2 of 6,”
“Session 3 of 6,” etc.) show the therapist meeting
with the same participant over the course of
multiple sessions

39. Why PsycTHERAPY®
?
Why would you find this database useful?
•Meets the needs of faculties’ / other users’ varying topical
interests and theoretical orientations
•Many different types of client participants = more
therapeutic content = a diversity of examples from which
to draw
•Users can tag and customize content to create
short clips
•Playlists can be shared within a class or smaller
group or the user’s immediate institution

40. Big Names in PsycTHERAPY®
• Judith S. Beck (Cognitive Therapy)
• Larry E. Beutler (Systemic Treatment Selection)
• Laura S. Brown (Feminist Therapy)
• Michelle G. Craske (Cognitive-Behavioral)
• Keith S. Dobson (Cognitive Therapy)
• Diana Fosha (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy, or AEDP)
• Leslie S. Greenberg (Emotion-Focused Therapy)
• Steven C. Hayes (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT)
• Sue Johnson (Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy)
• Stephen Madigan (Narrative Therapy)
• G. Alan Marlatt (Cognitive-Behavioral Relapse Prevention)
• Leigh McCullough (Affect-Focused Dynamic Psychotherapy)
• William Richard Miller (Motivational Interviewing)
• Arthur M. Nezu (Problem-Solving Therapy)
• Melba J. T. Vasquez (Multicultural Therapy)
• Paul Wachtel (Integrative Relational Therapy)
• Michael Yapko (CBT and Ericksonian Hypnotherapy)
• Jeffrey E. Young (Schema Therapy)

41. PsycTHERAPY®
Other Flexible Tools for Functional Content
• Users can tag and customize content to create short clips
• Playlists can be shared within a class or smaller group or
the user’s immediate institution
Access
•Available only to institutions via APA PsycNET
•Access available only to authorized, authenticated users
•Users will be required to enter a validating code or
password for access
•No access/archiving rights with license cancellation

42. Thank you!
Peter Gaviorno