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This bibliography of newly acquired books features titles relevant to Human Services professionals.

Human Services

plural noun. programs or facilities for meeting basic health, welfare, and other needs of a society or group, as people who are poor, sick, or elderly. (Dictionary.com)

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Online Resources

Human Services

  • Consumer Health Complete
    Provides content covering all key areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine.
  • CQ Researcher
    Offers in-depth, unbiased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on a wide range of topics.Each report is investigated and written by a seasoned journalist, professionally fact-checked, and footnoted to facilitate further research. Reports date back to 1923.
  • PsycARTICLES
    Provides full text peer-reviewed articles published by APA and affiliated journals with current journal coverage and historical content dating back more than a century.
  • Social Sciences in Full Text
    Covers the latest concepts, theories and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences. Includes full-text articles from more than 320 journals dating back to 1972.

Culture and Ethnicity

  • American Indian Experience
    Illuminates the histories and contemporary cultures of the Native peoples of North America.
  • Black Life in America
    Highlights the experience and impact of African Americans as recorded by the news media, 1704 to today. Black Life in America offers coverage of the African American experience from the early 18th century to the present day, sourced from more than 19,000 American and global news sources, including over 400 current and historical Black publications.
  • Ethnic Diversity Source
    A dedicated resource covering the culture, traditions, social treatment and lived experiences of different ethnic groups in America. It provides full text from a growing list of sources including peer-reviewed journals, magazines, e-books, biographies, and primary source documents.
  • Hispanic Life in America
    Focuses on the experience and impact of Hispanic Americans as recorded by the news media, covering the early 18th century to the present day, sourced from more than 17,000 publications, including 700 Spanish-language newspapers and periodicals.

General

  • Academic OneFile
    The premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world’s leading journals, this comprehensive resource covers the physical and social sciences, technology, medicine, engineering, the arts, technology, literature, and many other subjects.
  • Academic Search Complete
    Provides complete coverage of multidisciplinary academic journals. It supports high-level research in the key areas of academic study by providing peer-reviewed journals, full-text periodicals, reports, books, and more. More than 9,000 full-text journals, for more than 7,800 peer-reviewed journals, dating back as far as 1887.
  • eBook Collection
    Over 200,000 titles from leading university presses and academic publishers.
  • JSTOR
    Over 300 titles cover humanities, literature, language, art history, education, business, and law disciplines. Dates of coverage vary by journal title. All go back to the very first issue published, but most have a "moving wall" embargo that excludes issues from the most recent 3-5 years.
  • Nexis Uni
    Contains a large selection of sources, including full-text magazine, newspaper and journal articles, industry and company information, legal materials, medical information, and reference materials.
  • OmniFile full Text Select
    A large of collection of multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journals, magazines, and more.
  • Opposing Viewpoints in Context
    Covers today’s hottest social issues presenting each side of a topic.
  • Statista
    Aggregates statistical data on over 80,000 topics from more than 18,000 sources, including market researchers, trade organizations, scientific journals, and government databases.

Visual Resources

  • Artstor Digital Library
    Features a wide range of images from some of the world’s leading museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists.
  • Britannica ImageQuest
    Offers nearly 3 million images rights-cleared for non-commercial, educational use and are perfect for creating exciting and visually engaging projects and presentations.
  • DocuSeek2
    Offers access to over 800 documentary films covering a variety of topics with a focus on environmental and social justice issues.
  • Films on Demand
    Provides access to over 35,000 educational videos covering a wide variety of disciplines.
  • Kanopy
    Offers access to a large, curated collection of educational, entertaining, and enriching films.
  • Netflix Educational Documentaries
    Offers a selection of Netflix original documentary features and series.

National Organizations

  • National Organization of Human Services (NOHS)
    The National Organization for Human Services (NOHS) is a nonprofit organization representing Human Service practitioners, educators, students and future Human Service Professionals. NOHS works to support all Human Service Professionals in our primary purpose to assist individuals and communities to function as effectively as possible in all major domains of living.
  • U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
    The mission of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is to enhance the health and well-being of all Americans, by providing for effective health and human services and by fostering sound, sustained advances in the sciences underlying medicine, public health, and social services.

Colorado Organizations

  • Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS)
    The Colorado Department of Human Services connects people with assistance, resources and support for living independently in our state. We're the people who help people. Colorado has a state-supervised and county-administered human services system. Under this system, county departments are the main provider of direct services to Colorado’s families, children and adults.
  • Rocky Mountain Human Services (RMHS)
    Founded in 1992, Rocky Mountain Human Services is a nonprofit organization that empowers people with the resources they need to thrive, and to live the lives they envision in their communities of choice. With a staff of nearly 500 talented and dedicated employees, we support more than 15,000 Colorado residents through case management and direct service programs.

Area County Resources

Books Available @ Quigley

Cultural Diversity : A Primer for the Human Services
Skills and Techniques for Human Service Professionals: Counseling Environment, Helping Skills, Treatment Issues
Handbook of Multicultural Counseling, 4th ed.
Legacy: Trauma, Story and Indigenous Healing
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
White Market Drugs: Big Pharma and the Hidden History of Addiction in America
Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol
Drink? The New Science of Alcohol and Your Health
Alcohol and Humans: A Long and Social Affair
Learning the Language of Addiction Counseling, 4th ed.
The Spectrum of Addiction: Evidence-Based Assessment, Prevention, and Treatment Across the Lifespan
Treating Addiction: A Guide for Professionals, 2nd Edition
The Science of Addiction: From Neurobiology to Treatment
Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Meth Addiction
The End of Mental Illness: How Neuroscience is Transforming Psychiatry and Helping Prevent or Reverse Mood and Anxiety Disorders, ADHD, Addictions, PTSD, Psychosis and More
The American Psychiatric Association Publishing Textbook of Substance Abuse Treatment
Days in the Lives of Social Workers:62 Professionals Tell
It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle
The Politics of Trauma: Somatics, Healing & Social Justice
Healing Childhood Trauma: Transforming Pain into Purpose with Post-Traumatic Growth
A Practical Guide to Complex PTSD: Compassionate Strategies to Begin Healing from Childhood Trauma
Mind-Brain-Gene: Toward Psychotherapy Integration
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
Essential Art Therapy Exercises
Are U Ok? A Guide to Caring for Your Mental Health
High Achiever: The Incredible Story of One Addict's Double Life

Instructional Reference Librarian

Subjects: Social Sciences