Orientation section

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Orientation

The motorway spine of the Psychology Wiki follows on from the links on the front page, and generally follows the headings used by PsychINFO as approved by the American Psychological Society.

The links follow a hierachical branching structure (eg psychology-clinical psychology-types of therapy-CBT-desensitization-desensitization protocol). On this basis you are only 5 clicks away from most specialist areas.

Follow the links to your chosen areas and add them to your favourites so you can easily return.

You may find it useful to conceive of the links as sets of nested chapter headings, leading to ever greater detail

Each page contains a navigation panel on the right which facilitates movement between subspecialties. eg you can quickly go from clinical psychology: anxiety: stress reaction to biological psychology in preparation for exploring that sub-hierarchy down the level of physiological effects of adrenalin. In addition there are subspeciality links to help with moving, for example, between areas in educational psychology.

As content gets added you can use the search facility to move around.

You can edit the site yourself, importing material from other sites or cutting and pasting from your own materal, or simply editing existing articles to improve them. Instructions for doing this are in the help section.

By registering on the button at the top right you can get full academic credit for your contributions

Please note: so as to preserve the clarity of the structural links, the early, general articles at the top of the hierarchy have been laid out on side pages.

Some orientating tips

It is worth setting aside half an hour to explore the site, to familiarise yourself with its rich content. Take each of the main routes in turn and and develop an overview of their structure.

At the moment the links look complicated with all the colons and subheadings. In time these will appear more simply . They are like this to show you the form you need to follow if you add sections or pages.

All work involving animals can be found under the animal model follow Comparative:Animal models: model of the animal involved. links will be made to other areas in terms of implications, significance etc etc

All work on treating clinical symptoms under ICD10 can be found at Clinical psychology:ICD10: symptom :outcome etc.

Most of the historical content is in the philosophy section.