At-Risk Populations calls for papers / publications

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Europe’s Journal of Psychology: Quality of Life in Social Science & Clinical Medicine

We are inviting papers for a special issue on Quality of Life in Social Science & Clinical Medicine to be published by Europe's Journal of Psychology (EJOP) in February 2013.
This special issue, edited by Dr. Paraskevi Theofilou, welcomes theoretical, methodological and empirical contributions on the following main topics:

1) Quality of life and mental health in chronic disease patients as well as in socially disadvantaged populations
2) Patients’ adherence to treatment - Interventions to improve adherence
3) Health locus of control in chronic disease patients - The relation to QoL and treatment adherence
4) Quality of life in health professionals, e.g. stress, anxiety, burnout
5) Quality of life definition, measurement etc in social science and clinical medicine (as a theoretical topic)

EJOP is a peer-reviewed open-access journal meant to facilitate communication between psychologists, both young professionals and specialists, and to give them access to high-quality professional information, thus fostering the scientific psychological community in Europe and worldwide. It publishes four issues per year and all the articles can be found at: http://ejop.psychopen.eu. The journal is currently indexed by DOAJ, EBSCO, Scopus, ProQuest and PsychEXTRA and part of the PsychOpen Publication Platform.

The deadline for submissions is 15 July and articles should be submitted through the electronic submission system (http://ejop.psychopen.eu/information/authors) with a note that they are intended for this special edition. Articles should not exceed 10.000 words in length and comply with APA publication standards. More author's guidelines can be found at: http://ejop.psychopen.eu/about/submissions#authorGuidelines

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of Clinical Nursing: Sexual and Reproductive Health

The issue of sexual and reproductive health is a major area of clinical practice. It encompasses a broad range of topics – sexuality, sexual behavior, altered body image, sexual and reproductive pathologies and infections, HIV/AIDS, abortion, sexual abuse as well as sexual health services, sex education and the impact of illness, social deprivation and age upon sexuality and sexual expression. Nurses are increasingly involved in work with patients, clients and communities that have sexual and reproductive needs – developing a holistic approach to care is essential, as well as increasing the evidence base for sexual and reproductive health interventions. This special issue aims to make a substantial contribution to this evidence base and also celebrate the wide ranging nature of sexual and reproductive health nursing practice.

Scope Researchers, practitioners and educators are invited to submit a manuscript based on a research study, literature review or discursive topic related to any area of Sexual and Reproductive health that has implications for nursing practice.

Manuscripts are especially welcome in the following areas (although other papers will be considered):

Child and adolescent sexual health issues, HIV/AIDS, Ageing and sexual health, Sexuality and chronic illnesses, Mental health and sexuality, Sex education, Sexual health in marginalized populations, Sexuality and clinical practice, Establishing/evaluating sexual health care or services, sexually transmitted infections, sexual health and pregnancy

All manuscripts will be expected to discuss the implications for clinical practice and adhere to the Journal of Clinical Nursing guidelines for authors available at www.wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/jocn

Submission The deadline for the receipt of manuscripts is December 2012 with anticipated publication in late 2013. Manuscripts should be submitted online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jcnur

All papers for the special issue should have the prefix ‘SI – SRH’ before the title of the paper.

Further information
Please contact the editors for this edition; Professor Mark Hayter (m.hayter@hull.ac.uk) or Professor Alice Yuen Loke (hsaloke@inet.polyu.edu.hk).

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association: Recovery-Oriented Practice in Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing

Guest Editors:
Kris A. McLoughlin,DNP, APRN, PMH-CNS, BC, CADC-II
Mary D. Moller DNP, ARNP, APRN, PMHCNS-BC, CPRP, FAAN

DEADLINE for article submission: AUGUST 1, 2012

In a 2005 Mental Health Declaration for Europe, the World Health Organization identified the need to “design and implement…mental health systems that promote…recovery.” According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) National Consensus Statement, Recovery is cited as the “single most important goal” for the mental health service delivery system (2006). Most recently, on December 22, 2011 the SAMHSA announced a new working definition of recovery as “A process of change through which individuals improve their health and wellness, live a self-directed life, and strive to reach their full potential”. Four major dimensions that support a life in recovery include health, home, purpose, and community along with 10 guiding principles: hope; person-driven; holistic; peer support; relationship and social networks; culturally-based and influenced; importance of addressing trauma; involving friends, family, community strengths, and responsibility; respect; and, the need for many pathways for recovery to occur.

The American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA) is one of five national participants in a SAMHSA initiative to transform the concepts of recovery from a set of beliefs to recovery-oriented nursing practices. As a profession, psychiatric-mental health nursing focuses on the person with the disease or disorder (not the disease or disorder itself). We assist people, through recovery-oriented interventions to adapt to their world and find personal meaning and purpose in their own real-life experiences as community members. This special issue will focus on the state of the science: How Psychiatric Nursing is understanding, integrating and developing recovery-practices and programs; and, how these practices affect outcomes.

Manuscript submission may include, but are not limited to:

Innovative recovery-oriented program development
Development, implementation, and evaluation of recovery-oriented practices or components of recovery practice
First-person accounts of recovery practice and related outcomes

Data-based manuscripts, quality improvement studies, state of the science / systematic literature reviews preferred. All manuscripts should be translational in nature by including key practice points for psychiatric nurses that can be implemented in the institutional or community healthcare setting.

Call for Graphic Memoirs on Mental Health Problems and the Psychiatric System

Editors: John Stuart Clark & Theodore Stickley

An undervalued feature of the recovery movement is the powerful narratives of those who have survived mental health problems and the psychiatric system.

Increasingly people in distress or recovery have turned to the graphic medium of comics to tell their sensitive stories, sometimes collaborating with friends or therapists, more commonly working alone to produce a personal diary or recollection. While a few have emerged as published ‘graphic memoirs’, most never see the light of day, or at best, are only accessible as web-comics.

Going some way to correct this, we invite submissions for a compendium book of graphic short stories of personal journeys (or part of) to be published early next year. The invitation goes out to everybody, past or present ‘sufferer’, regardless of artistic or literary expertise.

The editors appreciate that the form and dimensions of any proposed book are critical to those who create comics, so before committing, we ask for expressions of interest. This should be no more than a title and paragraph outlining your proposed story, plus a sample page of artwork submitted as a jpeg no bigger than 2MB. Deadline for Expressions: 31st July 2012

As a rough guide, imagine the finished book is A4 format and in black & white. Your finished story or episode should be no more than ten pages long, but can be as short as a single page.

Provided it is indicative of your style or that of the person you will collaborate with, the sample artwork can be of anything and any dimension. It is not necessary to work up a sample of your proposed story. Postal submissions will be accepted, but your outline must be typed, the artwork must be a photocopy, and a stamped self-addressed envelope must be included. Foreign language contributors will need to provide their own translations into English, and the page must read left to right.

The editors will respect full confidentiality should you wish your work to be included anonymously, but we need full contact details, even if you prefer to use a pseudonym. The editors cannot team up writers with artists, or visa versa.

COPYRIGHT: Standard copyright practice is adhered to.

DATA PROTECTION: The editors will retain entrants’ personal data for use solely in conjunction with work on this project and will not make this available to other organisations.

Digital submissions: Theo.Stickley@nottingham.ac.uk

Postal submissions: Theo Stickley, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Mental Health Building, University of Nottingham, Jubilee Campus, Wollaton Road, Nottingham NG8 1BB, U.K.

Call for Papers for the Journal of Family Social Work: Understanding Kinship Care: Implications for Policy and Practice

Guest Editors, Lillian C. Wichinsky, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Mark Testa, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Johanna Thomas, University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Kinship Care is defined as “the full time care, nurturing and protection of children by relatives, . . . godparents, stepparents, or any adult who has a kinship bond with a child,” including close family friends. Often considered a way of preserving the family, placing children with relatives helps children maintain those familial connections. Over the past ten years, the number of children living in the Unites States in households headed by non-parent relatives has grown to around 8 million; 2.5 million without their parents present. Parents of children living with non-parent relatives struggle with many issues, such as substance abuse, mental illness, incarceration, economic hardship, divorce, and domestic violence. Some parents leave to find work, due to the poor economy, and their children remain with grandparents. This can cause significant upheaval in a child’s life. Grandparents and other relative caregivers are a lifeline during these trying times. Placing children with family members prevents further disruption in the child’s life.

Kinship caregivers are not as likely as foster caregivers to receive any type of financial support, although about 22% of grandparents caring for grandchildren live at the poverty level. Kinship caregivers are about four times less likely to receive any form of parent training and seven times less likely to have access to peer support groups or respite care. Relatives have expressed that they need such as financial assistance, after-school programs, obtaining legal guardianship, transportation, tutoring programs, and mental health counseling for the children. This special edition provides an opportunity to explore recent developments in research in working with “kin” families and their children, to discuss model programs and to explore policy and funding implications for state programs wrestling with these issues.

Articles are due December 15, 2012.

Issues of the Journal of Family Social Work contain research articles, conceptual and practice articles, creative works, letters to the editor, and book reviews devoted to innovative family theory and practice subjects. In celebrating social workers' tradition of working with couples and families in their life context, the Journal of Family Social Work features articles which advance the capacity of practitioners to integrate research, theory building, and practice wisdom into their services to families. It is a journal of policy, clinical practice, and research directed to the needs of social workers working with couples and families.

Manuscript Submissions
The Journal of Family Social Work receives all manuscript submissions electronically via their ScholarOne Manuscripts website located at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/wfsw. ScholarOne Manuscripts allows for rapid submission of original and revised manuscripts, as well as facilitating the review process and internal communication between authors, editors, and reviewers via a web-based platform. ScholarOne Manuscripts technical support can be accessed via http://scholarone.com/services/support/. If you have any other requests, please contact the journal's editor at jfamilysocialwork@gmail.com.

Journal of Family Social Work
Editor-in-Chief: Pat Conway, PhD, LCSW

Call for Submissions: Rendezvous With Madness Film Festival

November 9-17, 2012 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Rendezvous with Madness Program Deadline: August 17th, 2012

Rendezvous with Madness (RWM) is the world’s first and longest running film festival showcasing films that address issues of mental health and/or addiction. The festival provides a unique opportunity for filmmakers to screen their work and has grown into a filmmaker favourite over the past eighteen years.

The objectives of the Rendezvous with Madness Film Festival are:

− To explore the facts and mythologies of mental illness and/or addiction, as presented by Canadian and international filmmakers.
− To facilitate discussions amongst filmmakers and audiences with respect to these cinematic representations.
− To provide filmmakers an opportunity to screen their films that may otherwise not be seen.
− To increase awareness, and advocacy for mental health and addiction issues and concerns.

RWM brings independent Canadian and International film and video to the public. RWM features strong programs that address the facts and mythologies of mental illness and addiction.

Each of the various programs focuses on different themes and includes panel discussions involving the filmmakers, artists and people with professional and personal experience with mental illness and addiction.

Rendezvous in the ClassroomSince 2001, Rendezvous with Madness has programmed films specifically for high school students through Rendezvous in the Classroom program. All films submitted to the festival by the deadline will automatically be considered for the Rendezvous in the Classroom program.

Rendezvous with Madness accepts short and feature length films of any genre, that touch on issues of mental health and addiction, from anywhere in the world. Special consideration will be given to films that:

−Present issues of mental health and addiction from local, multicultural or youth perspectives.
−Premiere at Rendezvous with Madness

Entry Rules and Regulations− All festival entries must be submitted by August 17th, 2012.

Call for Papers: Emerging Adulthood Journal

Submit your research to Emerging Adulthood, a new journal coming in 2013!

Benefits of Publishing in this Journal

When you publish in Emerging Adulthood, you will benefit from:

Rigorous peer review of your research
Prompt publishing
Targeted, multidisciplinary audience
High visibility for maximum global exposure

Emerging Adulthood (EA) is an interdisciplinary and international journal for advancements in theory, methodology, and empirical research on development and adaptation during the late teens and twenties. EA covers clinical, developmental and social psychology and other social sciences, including anthropology, psychiatry, public policy, social work, sociology, public health, and post-secondary education. EA embraces the use of both qualitative and quantitative methodology.

Submit Manuscripts in these Areas

You are invited to submit your manuscript and articles on emerging adulthood research topics/areas, including (but not limited to):

Interpersonal Relationships
Work and Education
Well-Being
Social and Moral Competence
Health
Identity
Psychopathology
Ethnicity/Culture
Religion
Media and Technology
Transitions

Call for Submisions for a Special Issue of the Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities on Topics Related to the World Report on Disability

The Official Peer-Reviewed Journal of the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disabilities (http://www.iassid.org)

Published by Wiley Blackwell, with the support of San Raffaele

http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=1741-1122&site=1

The World Report on Disability (http://www.who.int/disabilities/world_report/2011/en) issued by the World Health Organization and the World Bank provided a landmark set of recommendations to overcome barriers and create opportunities for persons with disabilities.

Despite efforts at the international, regional, country, and local levels, there continue to be enormous gaps in research, policy, and practices regarding intellectual and developmental disabilities in countries which are sometimes referred to as “low and middle income countries” and “developing countries” by the World Bank and the World Health Organization (http://data.worldbank.org/about/country-classifications).

This special issue of JPPID will focus on the progress and challenges regarding recommendations of the World Report on Disability with respect to persons with intellectual disabilities in lower and middle income regions, countries, and political entities. What progress has been made? What are the barriers? What policies and legal frameworks have been or should be developed? In what ways have persons with intellectual disabilities been involved in responses to the World Report on Disability?

The focus of this special edition of JPPID is on stimulating discussion and advancing knowledge regarding research, policies, and practices in intellectual disabilities within the context of the World Report on Disability and work being undertaken in the field of intellectual disability in low and middle income countries. Of special interest are submissions of in-depth articles as well as brief country reports that address:

Policies
Legal and political frameworks
Research analyses
Future directions
Innovative practices and strategies
Unique collaborations and partnerships among public, governmental organizations, and local initiatives
Targeted social and economic development
Educational participation and progress
Inclusive employment environments
Families and supports
Conflict, disaster and disability
Gender, ethnic, social, and/or cultural considerations
We very much encourage interest from those living or working in low income and “developing” countries”.

Submission Format: Manuscripts should comply with the requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines at http://www.wiley.com/bw/submit.asp?ref=1741-1122&site=1

Formatting and reference list should follow the American Psychological Association (APA - 6th Edition) standards. Information about APA - 6th Edition can be found at the following web sites:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01

http://www.apastyle.org/learn/tutorials/brief-guide.aspx

Full-length manuscripts (typically 20 to 25 double-spaced manuscript pages) and brief reports, case studies, and policy activities (5 to 8 double spaced manuscript pages) are welcome. Submissions must be made in electronic format to Scholar One (Manuscript Central) http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jppid. All papers will be peer reviewed as well as vetting for appropriateness for inclusion in the special issue.

The following are the deadlines for submission:

August 31, 2012 Submit a letter of intent to: specialissuejppid@gmail.comThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
October 31, 2012 Submit working draft to editors: specialissuejppid@gmail.comThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
December 3, 2012 Deadline for manuscript submission to Scholar One: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jppid

For inquiries and suggestions, please contact one of the guest editors:

Roy I. Brown, University of Victoria, Canada ( royibrown@shaw.ca )
Libby Cohen, James Cook University, Singapore ( lcohen71@gmail.com )
Keith McVilly, Deakin University, Australia ( keith.mcvilly@deakin.edu.au

Call for Papers for a Theme Issue of School Psychology Forum: Providing Educational and Psychological Services for Foster Care and Adopted Students

This is a broad category that includes research and novel interventions for counseling and academic issues for international adoptees, students in the foster care system, and specific issues for children who were adopted.

Guest Editor: Professor Anna Jankowska

Deadline: March 15th, 2013

Call for Submissions: Special Issue of the Journal of HIV/AIDS & Social Services: HIV Care and Prevention in Adolescents and Emerging Adults

Adolescence is a time often marked by experimentation, development of one’s racial and sexual identity, risk taking, and vulnerability. Consequently, emerging adulthood can be characterized as a period of continued change in terms of home, school, work, and relationship domains. Adolescents and young adults (ages 13 to 29) currently account for the largest percentage (39%) of new HIV infections in the United States compared to other age groups. HIV incidence in this group disproportionately affects young gay and bisexual men and young African Americans. Behavioral factors found to be associated with HIV infection in young persons include early age at sexual initiation, older sex partners, history of sexual abuse, sexually transmitted infections, and substance use. Providers may face challenges in delivering developmentally and culturally appropriate interventions for increasing numbers of young persons entering care systems, and providing treatment regimens that are compatible with diverse lifestyles.

The Journal of HIV/AIDS & Social Services is inviting the submission of papers for a special issue on HIV Care and Prevention in
Adolescents and Emerging Adults.

Papers to be considered for review for this special issue should be submitted beginning April 15, 2012, through August 15, 2012.

Topics of interest include:

. Emergent findings in psychosocial approaches to HIV care and prevention in adolescents and young adults.
. Identifying and addressing special needs of adolescents and emerging adults living with HIV/AIDS, including transitioning to adult HIV care.
. Innovative methods in engaging and retaining young persons in prevention and treatment programming.
. Correlates of adolescents and emerging adults’ sexual risk behavior amenable to service delivery or intervention.
. Developmental approaches to working with adolescents and emerging adults living with HIV/AIDS.
. Innovative programmatic approaches relating to issues of gender, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, and disability.
. Peer-directed programming targeting adolescents and emerging adults living with HIV/AIDS.
. Emergent issues in the intersection of biomedical and psychosocial approaches to HIV/AIDS in adolescents and young adults, including treatment-as-prevention and preexposure prophylaxis.

Douglas Bruce, PhD, MSW
DePaul University
Dexter Voisin, PhD
University of Chicago
Special Edition Editors

The Journal of HIV/AIDS & Social Services receives all manuscript submissions electronically via their ScholarOne Manuscripts website located at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/whiv. ScholarOne Manuscripts allows for rapid submission of original and revised manuscripts, as well as facilitating the review process and internal communication between authors, editors, and reviewers via a web-based platform. ScholarOne Manuscripts technical support can be accessed via http://scholarone.com/services/support/. If you have any other requests, please contact the journal’s Managing Editor at mikebass@uic.edu.

When you enter your manuscript on ScholarOne, please click on the option that you intend it to be considered for the Special Edition: HIV Care and Prevention in Adolescents and Emerging Adults.