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• Social Services Abstracts 
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• APA PsycInfo 
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• Education Database (ProQuest) 
• Gale Health and Wellness 

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• Abstracts in Social Gerontology 
• Family & Society Studies Worldwide 
• GenderWatch 
• APA PsycTherapy 
• Google Scholar 
• Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective 
• JSTOR 
• LGBTQ+ Source 
• Criminal Justice Database 
• Dissertations & Theses (ProQuest) 
• Race Relations Abstracts 
• Urban Studies Abstracts 
• Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 
• WorldCat 
• Westlaw 
• CQ Researcher 

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