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COUN 5301: Professional Counseling Orientation: Finding Articles

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Search by keywords/phrases and use Boolean searching

AND: "cultural competen*" AND counsel*  

OR:  "cultural competen*" OR "cultural sensitivity"

Using "Quotation Marks" searches words as a phrase. 

Limit search results by Date and Peer-Reviewed journals.   

Truncation searches variations of a word. The symbol used is asterisk *

COUNSEL* will retrieve: counselor, counsellor, counseling, counselors

Check Subject terms to see if there are any synonym terms to consider.

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The example below shows that The Journal of Continuing Higher Education is accessible in print/microform as well as online. The entry also shows coverage dates to indicate which years are accessible. 

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