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Subject Guide: Psychology & Marriage/Family Therapy: Finding books in the library

This guide will help you find the most useful information available through Hiebert Library in the fields of psychology and marriage & family therapy.

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Call number ranges for psychology and marriage/family therapy

Books in Hiebert Library are arranged using call numbers based on the Library of Congress Classification system. See our guide "How to Read a Call Number" if you need an introduction to how call numbers work.

Most books in the field of psychology and marriage & family therapy can be found in the following call number ranges:

BF
   1-990: Psychology
   1001-1389: Parapsychology

BV
  
4012-4012.3: Pastoral psychology and psychiatry

HM
   1001-1281: Social psychology

RC
   346-571: Neurosciences; Biological psychiatry; Neuropsychiatry

Refer to the map of Hiebert Library for help finding where these call number areas are located.

Subject Headings

Library resources in the Hiebert library are organized by subject, using the Library of Congress Classification system. Often, the best way to find resources is by doing a Subject search.

Users often use keyword searches, which can be helpful, but don’t fully capture the collections resources. You can visit the Search Strategies guide to help you strengthen your library searches.

Below are only a sample of useful subject headings you can use to find resources in various areas of the discipline. You can use the Advanced Search in the Search Hiebert Library search boxes embedded throughout the guides to subject search and find resources in the library discovery service.

Useful subject headings

Adjustment (Psychology)

Adolescent psychology

Aggressiveness

Child psychiatry

Child psychology

Child psychotherapy

Cognition

Cognition in children

Consciousness

Depression, mental

Developmental psychology

Educational psychology

Emotions

Ethnopsychology

Family psychotherapy

Human behavior

Identity (Psychology)

Loss (Psychology)

Marital psychotherapy

Marriage counseling

Mental health

Mental illness

Motivation (Psychology)

Pastoral counseling

Perception

Personality

Personality disorders

Psychiatry

Psychoanalysis

Psychology, applied

Psychology, pathological

Social psychology

Stress (Psychology)