Login and search LibrarySearch using keywords that describe your topic, then refine your results to the resource you are wanting, such as books, chapters or journals.

• Combine your keywords with AND to find all search terms. 
• Use OR to find alternative words or synonyms.
• Find "exact phrases" with quotation marks. 
• Add an asterisk * to part of a word to find all different endings and plurals. 

An example search: 

"mental health" AND  (trauma OR ptsd) AND measure*

Below is a selection of peer-reviewed journals, meaning they have been evaluated and critically appraised by a group of experts in the field, available via RMIT University Library. More can be found by searching the list of journals on the Library website.  

You will need to enter your login details to access these journals.

Open access journals 

These journals contain peer reviewed content which, under the principles of open access, is freely available.

• Frontiers in psychology 

• BMC psychology 

• PsychOpen 

• Psychology Today 

  Content here is written by clinicians, experts and researchers from across the fields of behaviour and psychology, but is not peer reviewed.

Assignments: get started- find out how to research your topic to find suitable information.