Bachelor of Psychology/Bachelor of Psychological Studies: Web Resources

Open Access Articles, Books and Databases

Directory of Open Access Journals - Psychology

Free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.

Psychological Research on the Net

This site has links to known experiments on the internet.

AllPsych Online

A comprehensive portal for psychology sources including dictionary, tests and measurements and other materials.

BioMed Central

Over 290 quality peer-reviewed journals in Biology, Clinical Medicine and Health.

BMC Psychology

Open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers manuscripts on all aspects of psychology, human behaviour and the mind, including developmental, clinical, cognitive, experimental, social, evolutionary and educational psychology, as well as personality and individual differences.

Encyclopedia of Psychology

Contains original work by respected researchers and practitioners and a database of links to websites.

OER Commons

Quality source of open access textbooks.

PubMed

This database comprises more than 27 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.

Scholarly Psychology Resources on the Web

Contains links to sites which offer scholarly information on numerous subtopic within the field of psychology.

Social Psychology Network

One of the largest social psychology database on the internet. Contains more than 5,000 links to psychology-related resources.

Psychological Organisations

Australian Psychological Society - The APS site includes Academic ResourcesNews & media, a job recruitment service called PsychXchange,

Community Psychology Australia - Here you will find profiles of people who are associated with Community Psychology, in all its variations. We were interested in finding people who loosely aligned themselves to Community Psychology in their work practices and philosophy.

Schizophrenia Research Institute - An Australian website with a great Library of online resources.

The Australian Counselling Association - The Australian Counselling Association is a non-profit, professional organisation that is dedicated to the counselling profession. 

 Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia - This is a national peak body for counsellors and psychotherapists in Australia. 

Australian Clinical Psychology Association The APA Home Page includes online resources arranged by topic and their Ethical Principles for Psychologists code with 2010 amendments.

Allied Health Professions Australia - The recognised national voice for allied health professions in Australia.

Association of Counselling Psychologists - This is a National progressive professional peak association of counsellors and psychotherapists.

Australian Indigenous Psychologists Association - This is the peak representative body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander psychologists.

Australian Psychology Accreditation Council - It is an independent quality and standards organisation appointed by Australian Governments.

Australian Society for Psychological Medicine - aims to connect, train and support medical practitioners in the complex work of caring for the whole person.

National Health and Medical Research Council -  An agency of the Australian Government responsible for medical and public health research

American Psychological Association - This is the premier American association.

Association for Psychological Science - The Association for Psychological Science (previously the American Psychological Society) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of scientific psychology and its representation at the national and international level.

Association for Research in Personality -  The Association for Research in Personality is a scientific organization devoted to bringing together scholars whose research contributes to the understanding of personality structure, development, and dynamics.

International Association of Applied Psychology - The International Association of Applied Psychology is the oldest international association of psychologists. Its official languages are English and French.

Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues - Founded in 1936, SPSSI is a group of over 3000 scientists from psychology and related fields and others who share a common interest in research on the psychological aspects of important social and policy issues.

American Psychological Association - The world's largest association of psychologists, the APA's mission is to advance the creation, communication and application of psychological knowledge to benefit society and improve lives.

British Psychological Society

International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology

International Positive Psychology Association

Association for Psychological Science - The Association for Psychological Science (previously the American Psychological Society) site includes information on the APS plus web links to resources on Teaching PsychologyResearch News and links to other internet resources.

Directory of International and Regional Organizations of Psychology

Multimedia via the WWW

Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Beck Institute is an international training and resource centre for health and mental health professionals, educators, and students. (YouTube)

Counselling Channel

The Counselling Channel (YouTube) produces videos about self-help, counselling, psychotherapy and a range of other talking therapies. Sponsored by CPCAB

The Counselling Tutor

The Counselling Tutor (YouTube) channel is dedicated to providing additional study support for learners undertaking counselling courses, qualified counsellors or anyone who has an interest in counselling theory and personal development.

PsychotherapyNet

PsychotherapyNet offers a library of over 300 training videos featuring the leading practitioners of our field (YouTube).

Google Videos

Search the video content freely available.

Psych Central

Psychology News

ABC Mental Health News

Mental health news from Australia's ABC

PsycPORT: Psychology Newswire

Psychology in the news from the American Psychological Association

The Conversation: Psychology

Psychology articles from the "The Conversation".

APA Social Media and Mobile Apps

The APAs official social media outlets to share research findings, psychology news and other information.

All in the mind  

From ABC Radio National, a weekly program about the mind, brain and behaviour.

BBC4's All in the mind from the UK.

Guardian - Science - Psychology 

Psychology news from The Guardian newspaper.

Guardian - Society - Mental Health 

Mental health news from The Guardian newspaper.

APA's Psychology topics page 

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