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Monash University Library uses the Dewey Decimal Classification scheme to organise books and journals. The most efficient way to locate material in the library is to search the library catalogue, however the following may be useful as a guide when browsing the shelves.

Number Subject
155 Developmental psychology
155.2 Personality
174.93613 Social work ethics
302 Social psychology
306.856 Single-parent family
306.89 Separation and divorce
344.01 Social law
344.03 Welfare law
346.015 Family law
361 Social problems social welfare services
361.06 Counselling
361.1 Social problems
361.25 Social program planning
361.3 Social work
361.4 Group work
361.6 Governmental action
362.1 Physical illness
362.2 Mental illness
362.29 Substance abuse
362.5 Services to the poor homeless
362.6 Services to older people
362.7 Services to young people
362.76 Child abuse and protection
362.8 Services to other groups
362.82 Social work and families
362.8292 Family violence
362.84 Cross-cultural social work
362.8917 Psychoanalysis
364 Criminology
616.89156 Family therapy

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