Research Guides

Social Welfare

Ebooks

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Some Ebooks Available From Ebrary

Call Numbers

BF PSYCHOLOGY

173-175  Psychoanalysis

511-593    Affection, feeling, emotion.  Includes bereavement, 
   stress, anger, grief

636-637    Applied psychology, counseling, behavior modification

712-724    Developmental psychology, including child, adolescent, 
   adult development; life cycle

789    Death and dying

E - F HISTORY. UNITED STATES. Includes history & status of Native Americans, African-Americans, Latinos; race relations

H SOCIAL SCIENCES (GENERAL)

HA STATISTICS

HM SOCIOLOGY (GENERAL)

HN SOCIAL HISTORY & CONDITIONS, SOCIAL PROBLEMS, SOCIAL REFORM

HQ FAMILY, MARRIAGE

12-64    Sexuality

72-74    Incest

535-734    Families and family dynamics

 755-759    Parents and parenting

767-799    Children, child development; adolescents, adulthood

809    Family violence

811-960    Divorce

1060-1064    Aging and the aged

HV SOCIAL WORK 

11    Social work schools, education, research methods

40-45    General work, group work, case work

91-95    US social welfare history, policy

640-645    Refugee problems

687    Social work in health care

689-699    Social work with families

700-713    Child abuse

741    Child welfare, general

875-883    Adoption, foster care

1442-1448    Women and social work

1449    Gays & lesbians

1450-1493    Social work and the elderly

1551-3024    Disability and social work

3176    Multicultural issues, cultural competence

4045    Poverty

4505    Homelessness and homeless persons

4998-5825    Drug abuse, alcoholism, substance abuse

6545    Suicide 6558-6626    Rape, violence against women, domestic violence

9000    Criminology, gangs, juvenile delinquency, prisons

KF LAW, including legal issues in social work

R MEDICINE, including ethics, psychology, terminal care

RA PUBLIC HEALTH, including community mental health, home health care services

RC PSYCHIATRY, PSYCHOANALYSIS

451    Mental health of specific populations, inc. elderly,
   racial & ethnic minorities

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