Journal Guide

Aims & Scope:  The Journal of Counselor Leadership & Advocacy (JCLA), a publication of Chi Sigma Iota Counseling Academic and Professional Honor Society International, provides professional counselors, counselor educators, and counseling students with research and evidence-based recommendations in topics that promote scholarship, research, professionalism, leadership, advocacy, and excellence in counseling.  Through high-quality research, scholarship, and professional dialogue, the primary purposes of this peer-reviewed journal are to promote the development of leaders to serve in diverse counseling settings, bring awareness to professional and client advocacy initiatives, and provide a forum for discussing professional issues.  JCLA welcomes empirical, theoretical, and conceptual manuscripts focused on leadership, professional and client advocacy, and professional identity for counselors, counseling students, and counselor educators.  Because evidence-based practice is at the heart of the counseling profession, JCLA will occasionally publish exemplary scholarship related to evidence-based practice in counseling practice, supervision, and education. 

The Journal of Couple & Relationship Therapy promotes a better understanding of what contributes to healthy adult relationships and how therapy facilitates the process. Experts address key treatment issues for all types of adult relationships. Articles explore couple therapy from the perspectives of theory, research, and practice, as well as issues related to the supervision and personal growth of clinicians. Special thematic issues address a single topic for the entire issue, allowing a more significant focus on that particular topic. A recent thematic issue studied clinical concerns with interracial couples. The Journal of Couple & Relationship Therapy discusses important issues from a multiplicity of therapeutic styles including: marital therapycouple therapysame-sex couple therapypremarital therapyre-marital therapydivorce therapysex therapymarriage therapycouple therapy as adjunct to the treatment of major mental illness, substance abuse, and spouse and family abuse Peer Review Policy: Each paper is first briefly reviewed by the editor for adherence to our standards of science and APA style. If the paper fits our content and purposes as a journal, it is sent out for review by a minimum of 2 reviewers, usually members of our editorial board, consisting of some of the country's most prestigious scholars and therapists. Upon completion of reviews, the editor makes a decision.Publication office: Taylor & Francis, Inc., 325 Chestnut Street, Suite 800, Philadelphia, PA 19106.

The Journal of Creativity in Mental Health, the official journal of the Association for Creativity in Counseling, a division of the American Counseling Association, is the valuable interdisciplinary reference source for academics and therapeutic practitioners. This refereed journal examines the practical applications of using creativity to help deepen self-awareness and build healthy relationships. This journal also explores how creative, diverse, and relational therapeutic approaches can be used in counseling practice. Each issue of the Journal of Creativity in Mental Health provides a wide range of interdisciplinary discussion relative to diverse mental health issues. The journal incorporates high-quality empirical research with cogent in-depth discussion and addresses the topics in both qualitative and quantitative language. Each unique focus encourages rich dialogue among scholars, practitioners, and students. Book reviews highlight new and interesting publications in the field. In another column, film reviews provide a framework for conceptualizing personality styles and common issues found in human relations. Two other special columns provide relationally-based creative interventions used by counselors and psychotherapists in their practices. They also provide an opportunity for mental health professionals to offer their perspectives on creative, innovative, and resourceful counseling topics.

The Journal of Crime and Justice, the official publication of the Midwestern Criminal Justice Association, is a triannual peer-reviewed journal featuring original scholarly work in the area of crime and criminal justice. JC&J welcomes quantitative and qualitative articles, theoretical commentaries, and book reviews. Special topic issues are also welcomed.Prospective authors should send a cover letter with contact information and the manuscript electronically to Michael J. Leiber, Editor, mjleiber@usf.edu.

The Journal of Criminal Justice is an international journal intended to fill the present need for the dissemination of new information, ideas and methods, to both practitioners and academicians in the criminal justice area. The Journal is concerned with all aspects of the criminal justice system in terms of their relationships to each other. Although materials are presented relating to crime and the individual elements of the criminal justice system, the emphasis of the Journal is to tie together the functioning of these elements and to illustrate the effects of their interactions. Articles that reflect the application of new disciplines or analytical methodologies to the problems of criminal justice are of special interest.Since the purpose of the Journal is to provide a forum for the dissemination of new ideas, new information, and the application of new methods to the problems and functions of the criminal justice system, the Journal emphasizes innovation and creative thought of the highest quality.Related Publications:Forensic Science International www.elsevier.com/locate/forsciintLegal Medicine www.elsevier.com/locate/legalmedJournal of Clinical Forensic Medicine www.elsevier.com/locate/jcfmForensic Science/Medicine and Legal Medicine Package www.elsevier.com/locate/forensicsFor book publications in security and criminal justice, please visit www.books.elsevier.com/security

The Journal of Criminal Justice Education (JCJE) is an official publication of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS). JCJE provides a forum for the examination, discussion and debate of a broad range of issues concerning post-secondary education in criminal justice, criminology and related areas. The aim of JCJE is to enhance the quality of higher education in criminal justice and criminology. JCJE is an education-oriented journal for those undertaking educational and academic endeavors in the fields of criminal justice and criminology. Quality articles that address specific educational or academic issues in these areas are encouraged and will be considered for publication.Peer Review Policy:All work appearing in this journal has undergone editorial screening and peer review.

International and multidisciplinary, the Journal of Criminal Psychology (JCP) publishes both scholarly and practitioner-based research on all aspects of the psychology of criminal behaviour.