Resource Guide:
Family Process
Websites and Digital Archives
The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.
- FPG Child Development Institute
- Child & Family WebGuide
- Administration for Children & Families
- ChildStats: Forum on Child and Family Statistics
- ChildTrends: A Nonproft, Nonpartisan Research Center
- National Adolescent and Young Adult Health Information Center
- Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Subject Headings
Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.
- Family
- Systemic therapy (Family therapy)
- Intergenerational Relations
- Domestic Relations
- Sex Differences
- Intimacy (Psychology)
- Child Development
- Socialization
- Differentiation (Developmental psychology)
- Divorce
- Single Parents
- Stepfamilies
- Communication in marriage
- Marriage counseling
- Marital conflict
- Conflict resolution
- Group identity
- Parenting
- Family Social Work
Research Databases
The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.
- Academic Search Complete
- Communication & Mass Media Complete
- Credo Reference
- Education Research Complete
- Encyclopedia Britannica
- Environment Complete
- ERIC
- Health Source – Consumer Edition
- JSTOR
- Legal Collection
- MasterFILE Premier
- Military & Government Collection
- Newspaper Source Plus
- Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
- Religion and Philosophy Collection
- Women’s Studies International
Online Journals
The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.
- Adolescence
- Adolescent Psychiatry
- Children
- Children and Society
- Children Today
- Child Welfare
- Child: Care, Health and Development
- Family Matters
- Family Planning Perspectives
- Family Process
- Family Relations
- Journal of Marital & Family Therapy
- Journal of Marriage and Family
- Youth and Society
- Youth Studies
Print Materials at the Von Canon Library
Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.
| Title | Call Number |
|---|---|
| Handbook of Child Psychology | REF BF 721 .H242 |
| Encyclopedia of Marriage and the Family | REF HQ 9 .E52 v.1 |
| Encyclopedia of Sociology | REF HM 17 .E5 v.1 |
| What Makes Love Last? How to Build Trust and Avoid Betrayal | HQ 801 .G 5983 2013 |
| Oxford Handbook of Positive Psychology | BF 204.6 .095 2009 |
| Family Communication | HQ 734 .P736 2006 |
| Handbook of Closeness and Intimacy | BF 575 .I5 H36 2004 |
| Childhood in America | HQ 792 .U5 R345 2002 |
| The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families | BX 8643.C8658 1997 |
| How to Win as a Stepfamily | HQ 777.7 .V56 1991 |
| Negotiating Parent-Adolescent Conflict: A Behavioral Family Systems Approach | RJ 503 .R63 1989 |
| Communication, Intimacy, and Close Relationships | BF 637 .C45 C647 1984 |
| The Family: Functions, Conflicts, and Symbols | HQ 536 .F367 |
| You and Your Aging Parent | HV 1461 .S54 |
| Handbook of Communication and Aging Research | eBook 2004 |
| Family Stories and the Life Course | eBook 2004 |
| Breaking the Cycle of Abuse | eBook 2005 |
| Connections: The Threads that Strengthen Families | eBook 1999 |
| Maintaining Relationships Through Communication | eBook 2003 |