Read a chapter or two in a handbook to get a quick understanding of a subject area.

In this context, handbooks are defined as publications that provide theoretical overviews rather than practical instructions. Handbooks contain collections of chapters that cover a certain subject area or field. They can provide you with an introduction, the theories that are used within the research, and its most important authors, as well as good reference lists of the most important contributions to the field.

Handbooks explain the various terms used within the specific field. Therefore, handbooks provide a shortcut to important original sources.

The following titles are examples of handbooks that you might find useful. Since the Interventions in childhood programme is interdisciplinary you might have use of handbooks from various disciplines. Search in Primo to find more handbooks. Use the search term handbook in combination with other terms that specify your field of interest.