There are lots of databases that contain articles about counselling, coaching and mentoring, and they are all available via LibrarySearch – just click on the “Find databases” link in the left-hand menu and you will see an alphabetical list. Browse the list until you find the one you want. The most useful databases for your subject include:

ASSIA – Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts serves the information needs of the caring professions, including practitioners, researchers, and students in healthcare, social services, education, and related areas. It is focused on a core of around 500 of the most relevant English language scholarly journals covering aspects of health and social care from a broadly social scientific perspective.

British Education Index – key database indexing over 200,000 records covering all areas of education from preschool to higher education from UK published journals from 1975 onwards. See also Australian Education Index and ERIC(US/international education).

Business Source Premier – a full text business database, including material on counselling at work and leadership coaching.

C hild Development and Adolescent Studies– book reviews and abstracts from journals, reports and theses about children; tick “limit to linked full text” to restrict to CCCU journals.

CINAHL – the world’s most comprehensive source of full text for nursing and allied health journals, providing full text for more than 1300 journals.

Emerald Management e-Journals – a powerful business research tool that provides critical information when it is most needed. Users have instant access to over 35,000 full text articles from Emerald’s international management portfolio, complete with full text archives back to 1994. Covers workplace counselling.

PsycArticles – an aggregate of hundreds of scientific, technical, and medical journals from over 50 publishers and societies.

PsycINFO – a bibliographic database providing abstracts and citations to the scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioural, and health sciences.

ScienceDirect – contains over 25% of the world’s science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information.

Web of Science – a large multi-disciplinary database including over 160 education-related journals – with some full-text.

You will find guides next to the database title (for most databases) on the “Find databases” pages, and you can also access these guides on the Library and Learning Resources web pages.

Library Guide - Counselling, Coaching and Mentoring