PSYCHOLOGY - USEFUL WEBSITES

A range of high-quality resources for Psychology are available on the web. Start exploring them here:

Study skills & study resources

• All about Psychology: Comprehensive guide to the world of psychology.
• AllPsych: Comprehensive site which gives access to lots of information for psychology students and professional
• The British Psychological Society Research Digest: Blog exploring current studies and critically assess the methods behind them.
• Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP): Making sense of critical appraisals skills and focusing in on the evidence. Offers freely available checklists for critical appraisals.
• Library Research in Psychology: The Science Directorate of the American Psychological Association (APA) guide, developed for students.
• Psych-Postgrads: Mailing list hosted by JISC covering discussions around psychology-related topics.
• Psych Web: A range of academic psychology resources.
• Simply Psychology: A guide to psychology theories and psychology and psychology studies. Aimed at psychology students of all levels.

Glossaries

• APA Glossary of psychological terms: A glossary over psychological terms provided by APA, but originally created by Gerrig, Richard J. & Philip G. Zimbardo in 2002.
• The Mental Health Foundation A-Z: Contains an A-Z of Mental Health guide for the public, but also links into other resources for more background.

Behavourism & Comparative Psychology

• B. F. Skinner Foundation: Texts about and by B. F. Skinner, some available for free in full-text from the website.
• Comparative mammalian brain collection: Gives access to over 175 brain scans of animal speciments.
• Methods in Behaviour Research: Online companion to the book with the same title by Paul C. Cozby. Does include lots of links to other resources, but also quizzes and PowerPoints following the themes of the book.
• Pavlov on Internet Archive: Texts about and by Ivan Pavlov, available in full text with a free account.

Biopsychology, neuropsychology, neuroscience and cognition

• Cogprints: Covers any area of Psychology, Neuroscience and Linguistics and many areas of Computer Science, Philosophy, Medicine, and Anthropology.
• Color & Vision Research Laboratory: Includes a myriad of different data around how we perceive color.
• Genes to Cognition: Focus on neuroscience, especially cognitive disorders, cognitive processes, and research approaches and uses dynamic network maps to explore a library of over 750 items. [Requires Adobe Flash]
• Neuropsychology Central: Gives access to material around neuropsychology and primers.
• Neuroscience Information Framework: A dynamic inventory of Web-based neuroscience resources: data, materials, and tools accessible via the Internet.
• Neurosciences on the Internet: Contains links to various resources in the neuroscience field, for example to a pictorial presentation of the cutaneous fields of peripheral nerves.
• The Whole Brain Atlas: An atlas of the brain created by Harvard Medical School, includes neuro images.

Cyberpsychology

• Cyberpsychology Research Group: Research group based at University of Sydney, Australia.
• Dr Mary Aiken's website: Professor in Cyberpsychology, a list of her work with DOIs are available through her website.

Counselling practice and theories

• C.G. Jung Club: Club, which centres on the psychiatrist and psychologist C.G. Jung. They offer a series of lectures and talks around his theories and work; free for members.
• Classical Adlerian Psychology: Brief guide to the life and theory of Alfred Adler, who invented individual psychology.
• Discover Psychoanalysis - Freud Museum: Short videos which introduce Freud, psychodynamic approach and psychoanalysis.
• Freud on Internet Archive: Texts about and by Sigmund Freud.
• Resources for therapists and clients - Pink Therapy: Lists many book suggestions for and about broad topics which face individuals of the LGBT+ community. Some of the material is freely available online.
• Social Psychology Network: Contains hundreds of links to psychology and neuroscience, including teaching resources.

Ethics

• APA Ethics Office: Promotes ethics in the field of Psychology. Includes the APA Ethics code.
• BPS - Standards and Guidelines: Inlcudes a range of guidelines policies to help professional in the field, with a range of guides around ethics.
• UK policy framework for Health and Social Care Research: British framework for research where patients, relatives and carers are directly or indirectly being studied.

History of Psychology

• Classics in the History of Psychology: Gives access to classics within psychology and gives access to over 25 full-text books, 200 journal articles from the public domain. It is possible to browse for authors or topics.

Occupational Psychology

• Division of Occupational Psychology: The British Psychological Society's division to support individuals active within occupational psychology.

Positive Psychology

• Authentic Happiness: Online home of the University of Pennsylvania's Positive Psychology Center. Offers various free positive psychology resources, including short introductions and audovisual material. Much is, however, only available full-text through a free registration.
• Positivepsychology.com: Aims to provide scientific information on positive psychology for professionals. They also have an active blog.
• Positive Psychology News: News from all over the web, also links to their webinar series.
• Pursuit of Happiness: Resource filled with practical advice and information for the public and professionals.

Social psychology

• Social Psychology Network: Extensive resource for psychology, focusing on social psychology.
• Society for Personality and Social Psychology Youtube channel: Useful introduction to topics, and material from the society's annual conference.

Psychology tests

• Psychology Tests - Senate House: A list of psychology tests available at Senate House Library.  To access this resource please register for free membership to Senate House Library.
• APA - Finding information about psychological tests: Great resource to gain knowledge about the psychological tests available on the market.

Information portals for the public

• MindEd: An extensive resource for professionals and volunteers within health care, education and community, focusing on children and young people’s mental health. There are also specific resources to support CAMHS and CYP IAPT learners and those on counselling courses.
• NHS Mental Health: Advice directed to the general public on how to support their mental health.
• Psych Central: Freely available psychology and mental health resources with news and expert information. It contains a wealth of information for the experts and the general public.

Public charities

• BEAT - eating disorders
• Mental Health Foundation
• Mind
• MindOut
• Relate
• Samaritans
• SANE
• Together UK

Professional organisations

United Kingdom

• British Association for Counselling & Psychoteraphy (BACP)
• British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies
• British Neuroscience Association
• British Psychological Society
• The Consortium for Therapeutic Communities
• Experimental Psychology Society
• Psychology Postgraduate Affairs Group (PsyPAG)

International

• American Psychological Association (USA)
• The European Health Psychology Society
• The European Society for Cognitive Psychology
• International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology
• International Society of Political Psychology
• International Positive Psychology Association
• The Psychological Society of Ireland (Ireland)
• Norsk Psykolog Forening (Norway)
• Society of Neuroscience (USA)
• Society for Personality and Social Psychology (USA)
• Société Française de Psychologie (France)