Research Guides: Drama Therapy: Finding Books

Browsing Books

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Academic Libraries that use the Library of Congress Classification Outline (the majority of them) can easily be browsed for serendipitous discovery of wonderful books in your subject area. All you need to know is the call number range to get yourself situated.

Library of Congress Call Number Areas:

RC 489 .D3 Psychiatry. Drama Therapy
RC 512 -552 Psychoses & neuroses
RC 552 .E18 Psychiatry. Neurosis. Eating Disorders
RJ 499-507 Child Psychiatry, including mental disorders of children and adolescents

Additional Terms:

Drama Therapy
Dramatherapy
Drama Therapeutic Use (not useful in PsycInfo)
Creative Arts Therapy
Dance
Dance Therapy
Movement Therapy
Psychodrama
Recreation Therapy
Role Playing

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Search here for books, articles, journals and other print materials, videos, sound recordings, e-books, e-journals, databases, and indexes in our local libraries and special collections.

How to search

Simply typing in "drama therapy" will only reveal a small portion of the available literature. Choice of search terms has a tremendous impact on the outcome of your search. Different databases use different terminology, and none rely entirely on the phrase"drama therapy."

There is not an abundance of literature on the topic of drama therapy. Increase your search results by referencing articles in related fields, such as dance or movement therapy, that may share key concepts.

Finding Books Outside of Bobst

WorldCat - FirstSearch (OCLC) This link opens in a new window
The WorldCat database is the OCLC Online Union Catalog. It contains more than 43 million records describing items owned by our libraries or libraries around the world.

Interlibrary Loan
Interlibrary Loan (ILL) is a service which helps eligible patrons obtain materials that are unavailable in the New York University or consortium libraries. Expect delivery to take between 2-5 days.
EZBorrow
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Online Books

Ebook Central provides a unique set of online database collections that combine more than 20,000 authoritative books and other documents from over 150 leading academic, trade, and professional publishers.

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Ebook Central is NYU's preferred ebook provider. Users can search, read, highlight, and annotate full-text books in many subject areas, including the social sciences and humanities.

Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives and Reference Works

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Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts: Volume I: Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works is a searchable collection containing real transcripts of counseling and therapy sessions and first-person narratives illuminating the experience of mental illness and treatment, as well as reference works to contextualize the primary material. The database contains more than 2,000 session transcripts, 44,000 pages of client narratives, and 25,000 pages of secondary reference material.