525 Mental Health Day | Exploring Psychological Resources in WKU Library
May 25th is Mental Health Day for college students. The harmonic tone of 525 in Chinese sounds like “Wo ai wo”, which means “I love myself”. One must love oneself before loving others. To help WKUers understand relevant psychological knowledge better, WKU Library prepared a rich psychological resources package for everyone, which includes book recommendations, database recommendations, and software.
Psychological Book Recommendations
Facing the heavy burden of academic life, do you feel anxious and nervous? Regarding the future direction after graduation, do you feel lost? When dealing with complex interpersonal relationships, do you feel overwhelmed? In fact, many people have similar experiences and you are not alone. These are not big deals if you know how to adjust yourself properly.
WKU Library has recommended some psychology books for you, allowing you to dialogue with your talents, help you better understand yourself, and find the power of self-healing to accept yourself.
Title: Counselling for Toads: A Psychological Adventure
Author: Robert de Board
Robert de Board's Counselling for Toads: A Psychological Adventure is an educational psychology work. The book explains how Toad, who used to be cheerful and playful, loses his recognition of his own strengths and values in the emotional struggles and attempts to please others and falls into the abyss of self-doubt and depression eventually. At the urging of his friends, Toad visits Doctor Egret’s psychological counseling center, and through consecutive counseling sessions, he continuously explores his inner world, confronts and understands his emotions, and gradually regains confidence and hope, dealing with the adult world in the right way.
Mr. Toad's experiences seem to cast shadows that resonate within ourselves. Reading this book, we may understand every detail of psychological counseling and witness the self-healing and mental transformation of visitors. Besides, readers can learn practical listening skills, empathy ability, and communication skills in psychological counseling. Through introspection, you can find the exact problems in your inner mind and get rid of negative emotions, heading for inner peace and relaxation.
Title: Status Anxiety
Author: Alain de Botton
Anxiety is ubiquitous in modern society, everyone harbors an unspoken anxiety about their own identity. What is status anxiety? How does it arise? How can we alleviate or overcome anxiety as much as possible? Alain de Botton's Status Anxiety aptly discusses this issue.
In this book, De Botton extensively cites different works and perspectives of artists and thinkers to analyze the development of status anxiety. From various perspectives such as philosophy, art, and politics, he explores ways to deal with status anxiety, helping readers take the first step in solving problems. After reading the book, you can gradually introspect yourself to overcome barriers encountered both mentally and socially and focus your inner self in the busy study life.
Title: What Life Should Mean to You
Author: Alfred Adler
A sense of inferiority prompts the development of human civilizations, and everyone has a sense of inferiority. Inferiority can either make people collapse and give up on themselves, or it can be the driving force for improvement, urging people to move forward continuously. Alfred Adler, the founder of Individual Psychology, discusses the formation, impact, and transformation of inferiority feelings using many examples, revealing the essence of human psychology, exploring the mystery of personality formation, helping readers understand themselves and the world, face defects correctly, treat occupations correctly, understand society, life, and human nature correctly.
During the reading process, you can feel Adler's kindness and get strength from his theory, which may help you actively solve problems, and heal inner anxieties and unrest.
Title: Birth of the Self
Author: Wu Zhihong
If you often feel anxious, face various troubles, but don't know how to set boundaries, dare not refuse others, and always compromise without a bottom line in relationships, these situations ultimately stem from the lack of formation of yourself. When a person lacks uniform consciousness of himself, he is particularly prone to seeking validation from others. How can one build a strong "self"?
The purpose of this book is to help you establish a strong and authentic self. This book will guide you to deeply understand the process and difficulties of self-development, explore the roots of the problems that make you suffer, help you reshape family relationships, intimate relationships, and other interpersonal relationships, regain the ability to love and be loved, and live as the authentic self.
Title: The Power of Emotions
Authors: François Lelord, Christophe André
Innate emotions we are born with, like anger, jealousy, sadness, shame, fear, etc, are a flowing energy in oneself. If you can harmonize with them, it can help individuals to master their lives better. Otherwise, they will be deeply trapped in negative emotions, which may lead to failure in your life. Nowadays, emotional stability has become an indispensable quality for individuals. We cannot deny the power of emotions and their impact on our choices, health, and social interactions, but we can choose to understand and manage our emotions properly.
This book, from a professional psychological perspective, deeply analyzes the causes, manifestations, and effects of various emotions, leading you to re-understand the duality of emotions, better connect with others, and transform emotions into the power of a happy life. At the same time, the book's reasonable advice on common emotions can also help individuals manage their emotions easily and become masters of their emotions.
Title: Liao bu qi de xin li xue
Author: Zhang Xin
Psychology has solutions to life's various problems. Psychology is crucial for individuals to understand themselves or others, upgrade cognition, and solve problems. Learning psychology can help one understand why they behave in certain ways and the psychological logic behind their behavior. At the same time, learning psychology can also make individuals pay more attention to their mental health and development, and deeply explore themselves.
As an introductory book, the author integrates mainstream psychological theories such as Personality Psychology, Social Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, and Developmental Psychology, and delivers the obscure knowledge of psychology to readers in an easy-to-understand way. Based on 54 excellent psychology lectures, this book helps you focus on understanding people's thoughts, social norms, cognitive upgrades, and lifelong development, allowing you to have a basic understanding of psychology from scratch and learn to apply psychology in daily life.
More books
What would Freud do? / Sarah Tomley
Reasons to Stay Alive / Matt Haig
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind / Gustave Le Bon
Petit ou Grand Anxieux?/ Allan Braconnier
Darkness: A Memoir of Madness / William Styron
Rust voor je brein / Luc Swinnen
Personality Types / Don Richard Riso
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The above books have been shelved in the atrium on the third floor of the SLAC, waiting for borrow!
Recommended Psychology Databases
WKU Library has abundant electronic resources. WKUers can obtain various e-books and journal resources through the following databases, deepen your understanding of psychology, or conduct psychology-related research (please login with your WKU account when using WKU resources)!
WKU Library Resources
The above-mentioned databases possess abundant electronic book resources, covering a wide range of subjects including business, economics, humanities, social sciences, and STEM fields. With a vast quantity of resources, nearly a million e-books are available for your selection. We believe that WKUers interested in psychology research can find robust academic support here!
KU Library Resources
In addition, WKUers can also use KU accounts to access KU’s databases and journals related to psychology! Readers can discover more databases through the Database A-Z page on the KU Library homepage!
- Psychology Database (ProQuest)
- EBSCOhost Psychology Resources
- Taylor & Francis Online
- ScienceDirect
The above-mentioned databases include academic articles from various professional fields, including psychology, providing a wealth of academic resources in the social sciences and effectively supporting the research of psychologists.
Not enough? WKUers can explore more databases through the Database A-Z on the KU Library homepage!
Recommended Data Analysis Software
Data analysis software is indispensable for teachers and students of psychology when conducting theoretical research. WKU Library has set up a Digital Scholarship Center, equipped with a variety of statistical software and research software, for the convenience of teachers and students to use in the library!
Digital Scholarship Center Location
The third floor of the Student Learning and Activity Center (temporarily)
Equipped Software
SPSS, Amos, MPlus, RStudio, Matlab, Nvivo, Atlas.ti, LIWC, etc.
For more information about the Digital Scholarship Center, please see https://library.wku.edu.cn/zh-hans/digital-scholarship-center.
We hope the psychological resources package can help more WKUers truly understand, recognize, and accept themselves, face life's imperfections calmly, learn to enjoy life, love yourselves, and love others! Besides, we wish such rich psychological resources can also help WKUers achieve success on the path of psychological research!