Collection Development Policy
Psychology

PROGRAMS AND CLIENTELE SUPPORTED:

The Psychology Department offers both undergraduate and graduate level studies. At the undergraduate level, the program seeks a balance between exposure to basic psychological principles and theories and their extension to applied areas such as child education, mental retardation, counseling, and behavioral deficiency.

The graduate level program includes both training in basic research and the learning of skills in applied behavioral science. The Masters Program in Counseling places a strong emphasis on professional practice. Doctoral programs focus on: experimental psychology, covering the areas of learning, motivation, sensation, perception, social psychology, experimental methodology, and quantitative analysis; counseling psychology, including statistics, research design, and methodology; and individual and family development which fosters the interdisciplinary study of individuals, small groups, and families. In addition post-doc training is available in the areas of gerontological counseling.

Although the primary users of the psychology collections are associated with the Department of Psychology, the collection serves many related disciplines, campus agencies, and individual users. Areas with strong overlap include: sociology, business, biology, gender studies, theology, and philosophy and the Employee Assistance Program, the University Counseling Center, and the Department of Human Resources.

The major fields of study are: cognitive psychology and learning, developmental psychology, clinical/counseling psychology, and social psychology.

SUBJECT LIAISON:

Cheryl Smith
G 161 Hesburgh Library
(574) 631-4271
Smith.454@nd.edu

GENERAL COLLECTING GUIDELINES:

Languages:  English is the primary language of the collection.

Chronological guidelines:  Primary emphasis is on the Twentieth Century.

Geographical guidelines:  While there are no geographical distinctions to be drawn within the subject matter of psychology, the primary focus of interest is on studies concerning the United States and Western Europe.

Treatment of subject:  Most material is scholarly and research oriented. There is a growing interest in research techniques and methods involving the use of statistics, mathematical models, and computer applications. Works on educational psychology and on the medical aspects of psychology, including psychiatry are collected broadly.

Graduate level textbooks, biographies of psychologists, and histories of psychology are collected are collected selectively. General undergraduate textbooks and popular self-help works are not collected.

Types of material:  Serial literature is emphasized. Included are electronic and print reference works such as encyclopedias and dictionaries, abstracts, indexes, directories, and annual reports of societies and associations. Proceedings and reports of conferences, symposia, and congresses will be collected extensively. Handbooks also are useful, especially for clinical and laboratory situations, including school counseling. Government publications, such as the publications of the National Institute of Mental Health, are important. Dissertations and theses from other institutions are collected on a very limited level. Electronic products and audio/video materials for individual use will be collected as funds permit.

Date of publication:  Emphasis is on materials published in the last fifteen years. Retrospective collecting will be very limited (except for filling in the backruns of crucial serial titles.) Microforms, reprints, or alternative formats may be purchased instead of the original format.

COLLECTING GUIDELINES:

Subject	Collecting Level
PSYCHOMETRICS	3
Test Construction & Validation
Statistics and Mathematics
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY--HUMAN	2
Perception & Motor Processes
Visual Perception
Auditory & Speech perception
Conditioning
COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY AND LEARNING	2
Sensation
Learning & Memory
Motivation & Emotion
Attention & Consciousness States
Educational psychology
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY -- ANIMAL	2
Learning & Motivation
Social & Instinctive Behavior
DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY	2
Developmental Psychology
Infant Psychology
Child Psychology
Adolescent Psychology
Adult Psychology
Life-Span Development
Mental Retardation & Learning Disabilities
Aging and the Aged
Education and psychology
Genetic psychology
CLINICAL/COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY	3
Psychotherapy & Psychotherapeutic Counseling
Child Therapy
Individual Therapy
Group and Family Counseling
Behavior Therapy & Behavior Modification
Psychotherapy
Drug Therapy	2
Hypnotherapy	2
Psychiatry	2
Psychology and nursing	2
Gerontological counseling
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY	3
Social relationships
Sexual relationships
Psychology and the Community
Health psychology
Motivation
Social interactions
Social cognition
PARAPSYCHOLOGY	2
PSYCHOLOGY AND THE LAW	2
PSYCHOLOGY AND BUSINESS	2
Advertising
Organizational behavior
Management
PSYCHOLOGY AND RELIGION	2

 

 

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