Family Therapy: Find Articles

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CINAHL

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PsychInfo

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ERIC

A guide to basic searching in ERIC

Thinking About Your Search Topic

You might like this tool:

• How to Generate Keywords

  The "generator" is designed to help students think about the essential parts of their topic, identify additional terms, and construct a search statement.

Lack of search success seems to go wrong in two opposite directions --- many results but not focused on the topic or not many at all.

Consider:

• Using synonyms
• Using broader terms
• Narrowing the search with appropriate other terms
• That the defaults of the search interface may not be as you expect; words may be searched as a phrase
• Looking at the indexing terms of search results that are good matches
• Using limits