Saturday, April 16, 2011

Database Assignment

I am undecided with my major but am considering a major in Child and Family Studies, so I decided to see if I could find much within that field in the UT databases. I looked under the Psychology databases because I thought those would probably be the closest I would get to the field of Child and Family Studies. In Child and Family Studies, there is a major debate on whether the institution of the family is declining over time or if it is just simply changing with the culture and is resilient and will continue to be in all cultures.  So, I looked through the Psychology databases searching with "family decline" and "family resilience" as search terms.  I did not find any relevant articles in any of the five databases I searched.  However, there were many helpful Psychology databases if I was looking for something solely in that field.  There were some with clinical studies, scholarly articles, scholarly journals, dissertations, therapy and counseling tools, and an entire database that has many videos of therapy tools.  So, I guess I do not have a favorite database, since I was not able to find what I was looking for, but depending on what I was looking for in the Psychology database, I would have been able to pick a favorite database in the Psychology databases.

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