Psychiatry calls for papers / publications

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Social Science & Medicine: The Rise of Developmental Science: Debates on Health and Humanity

Guest Editors

Dominique P Béhague, Vanderbilt University & King’s College London

Samuel Lézé, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon

Social Science & Medicine is soliciting papers for a Special Interdisciplinary Issue on the unique challenges arising in the creation of child/adolescent developmental expertise throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Since the Enlightenment, the child’s developmental journey to adulthood has served as a prism for philosophical and scientific formulations of what it means to be healthy, normal, and human. Relative to other subfields in psychiatry and psychology, however, the focus on child/adolescent development and mental illness is both new and increasingly contested. As clinicians begin to work with an ever younger patient-population, critics from both outside and within relevant fields have begun sounding warning bells, since much of the evidence about early intervention, “normal/abnormal” development and treatment is uncertain and prone to undue pathologisation. Thus, experts are also calling for increased interdisciplinarity to better account for the unpredictability of development and the socio-cultural, economic, and biological heterogeneity in which normal/abnormal development and mental illness unfold.

Taking child/adolescent developmental expertise as an object of socio-cultural analysis, this special issue aims to explore how normative and marginal trends in this scientific subfield evolve in diverse socio-cultural and geopolitical contexts. The call builds on an existing set of manuscripts drawn from a workshop co-sponsored by Brunel University and the Royal Anthropological Institute entitled “The Rise of Child Science and Psy-expertise” (London, May 29-30, 2012).(i) We welcome submissions that consider the institutionalized worlds of science, medicine and education alongside the everyday lives of children and youth from historical and/or contemporary perspectives. Papers should be both empirically-based and theoretically informed. As we aim to influence core practices in science, medicine and policy, authors are also invited, though not required, to consider how the critical study of expert knowledge – and the diversity that exists therein -- can inform constructive debate on how best to produce and apply this knowledge.

Paper topics may include:

Comparative analysis of distinct ethno-psychiatric/psychological traditions and of normative and marginal research trends in child/adolescent science and clinical practice, including their institutionalized and increasingly globalized applications
Intersection of child/adolescent science and policy-development; e.g. growing interest in prevention and early intervention; emerging work on adolescent brain plasticity and implications for public policy and juridical practice

Implications of diverse trends in developmental science and child psychiatry for pedagogy, including psychologization of learning and school life through specific diagnoses (ADHD) and broader concepts (well-being, self-esteem, mindfulness)

Social vulnerability, ethnicity, inequity and minority status in child development research and clinical practice; global humanitarianism and medicalization of traumatic experience in children and youth

Popular uses and interpretations of emerging models of child development by advocacy groups, with special attention to the recent turn towards “child-centric” research and constructs of child agency

Interaction between “child” and “adult” categories in science, e.g. the methodological and conceptual tensions that research on child/adolescent development injects into mainstream adult psychiatry/psychology

Biologization of the child/adolescent in biopsychiatry and neuroscience, e.g. the adolescent brain; mother-infant bonding; geneticization; pharmaceuticalization

Authors can submit their papers any time after October 1st and up until the 31st of December 2013. Online submission can be found at: http://ees.elsevier.com/ssm. When asked to choose article type, please stipulate ‘Special Issue: Child Development Expertise.’ In the ‘Enter Comments’ box, the title of the Special Issue, along with any further acknowledgements, should be inserted. All submissions should meet Social Science & Medicine author guidelines (http://ees.elsevier.com/ssm). Please contact Dominique.Behague@Vanderbilt.edu and Samuel.Leze@ens-lyon.fr for further questions.

(i) http://www.brunel.ac.uk/sss/anthropology/news-and-events/events/ne_163209

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Academic Psychiatry: Psychiatric Education and Neuroscience

Over the past few decades, psychiatric research has increasingly converged on the importance of neuroscience for understanding psychopathology, the mechanisms of current treatments, and avenues for novel therapeutics. Despite these large scientific advances, education of psychiatrists in neuroscience has lagged significantly. This lag may be attributable to numerous factors, the result of which is a psychiatric workforce presently unprepared for understanding these innovations, interfacing with patients over them, and integrating neuroscientific advances into their clinical care.

Insights into and attempts to bridge the science-to-training gap, however, have already begun taking shape. These efforts have started on a small scale, but may very importantly inform broader efforts by the field to bring psychiatric practice closer into the fold of neuroscience. At the same time, there are concerns among clinicians that an exclusive focus on neuroscience may diminish the historically humanistic nature of psychiatry. To this aim, Academic Psychiatry is creating a special issue of articles that explore the nature of the gap, reasons why the training is lagging behind the science, and avenues for bridging this gap in creative ways, while being mindful to retain the many existing virtues of clinical psychiatry.

In keeping with the overall mission of Academic Psychiatry, papers ideally will be evidence-based, drawing upon data and outcome measures, and/or involving multiple sites. Comprehensive reviews and case studies are also welcome. All submissions will be peer reviewed in keeping with the journal's policy. Submissions are due by July 1, 2013.

Submissions should be uploaded to ScholarOne Manuscripts (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/appi-ap). Please indicate in the cover letter that the submission is for this special issue. For more information, please visit our Web site at ap.psychiatryonline.org. Please direct questions on the submission process to Ms. Ann Tennier, Senior Editorial Associate, at 262-346-1461 or acadpsych@gmail.com.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Child Maltreatment: Child Maltreatment & Emerging Adulthood: Developmental Outcomes & Service Delivery

Child Maltreatment, the journal of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, is preparing a special issue on developmental outcomes and service delivery during emerging adulthood. The purpose of this special issue is to highlight research examining empirical links between child maltreatment and developmental outcomes during emerging adulthood, broadly defined as that period of development from 18 to 25 years of age when young people living in technologically oriented cultures make the transition from adolescence to early adulthood.

Guest Editors Thomas J. McMahon, Ph.D. & Tanya Nichols, M.A., Yale University School of Medicine

Developmental outcomes of potential interest include, but are not necessarily limited to:

• Subjective identity

• Emotional stability

• Substance use

• Sexual behavior

• Quality of friendships

• Quality of romantic relationships

• Vocational-educational adjustment

• Quality of family relations

• Financial support

• The transition to independent living

• The transition to marriage

• The transition to parenthood

• Community engagement

Developmental outcomes representing both psychopathology and social competence will be acceptable; and the journal is particularly interested in papers that highlight positive developmental outcomes in the face of early adversity that represent resilience. Reports of research done within survey, case control, and longitudinal designs will be considered. Papers that draw upon the strengths of longitudinal designs with consideration of mediating or moderating influences are preferred.

This special issue will also highlight empirical research on service delivery during the transition from child to adult oriented systems of care for young people with a history of child maltreatment. The journal is particularly interested in papers that describe psychosocial intervention and patterns of service utilization for young people leaving the care of the child welfare system.

The deadline for submitting manuscripts is September 2, 2013. All manuscripts submitted for consideration will be subjected to peer review. Full length manuscripts should be limited to 35 double spaced pages, inclusive of tables, figures, and references. Manuscripts should also be formatted according to guidelines outlined in the sixth edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, and they should be accompanied by a letter requesting the paper be considered for this special issue on emerging adulthood.

If you have any questions about this special issue, please do not hesitate to contact Thomas McMahon at (203) 974-
5950 or thomas.mcmahon@yale.edu

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal: Parents with Psychiatric Disabilities

Submission Deadline: July 15, 2013

The Editors of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal are soliciting papers for a special issue that will be devoted to the topic of families in which parents are living with psychiatric disabilities. High quality research is sought on the development, pilot or feasibility testing, adaptation, implementation, evaluation, or dissemination of programs designed to support individuals who are parents living with a serious psychiatric disability, their children and family members. Papers addressing the experiences and needs of parents and their children as they emerge and are met in other intervention models are welcomed. These might include interventions for adults with psychiatric disabilities (e.g., supported employment, supported housing, ACT), interventions for children and youth (e.g., MST, wraparound), or whole family approaches. Manuscripts addressing other aspects of family-informed work with parents with psychiatric disabilities are also welcomed, such as studies using qualitative research methods, first-person accounts, economic analyses, policy-based papers, and research evaluating the associations between parenting and other domains of daily life and community integration (e.g., wellness, employment). Papers targeting systems and policy-level innovations, as well as organizational-level interventions are welcome.

Guest Editors Joanne Nicholson, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry, The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College, and Barbara J. Friesen, PhD, Research Professor, Regional Research Institute, School of Social Work at Portland State University, will oversee the special issue.

All papers will be peer reviewed, and should be submitted through the Manuscript Submission Portal, under the instruction to Authors at http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/prj. Submissions should follow the standard guidelines for Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal (see the Instructions to Authors tab on the journal's homepage). Please inform the PRJ Managing Editor in an email that the manuscript is to be considered for publication for the special issue on Parents with Psychiatric Disabilities and their Families.

The deadline for submission of papers is July 15, 2013, with the plan to publish the special issue in 2014.

Call for Papers on the Topic of Public Health Training in Psychiatric Education for Academic Psychiatry

Academic Psychiatry invites manuscripts focusing on the topic of public health training in psychiatric education. We welcome papers on innovative curricula, special educational experiences for trainees, and descriptions of programs that allow trainees to obtain advanced degrees in public health and their outcomes. The value and future career paths of individuals with public health training are topics of interest. We welcome empirical papers looking at, for example, the representation of individuals with public health training in academic psychiatry, public policy, and other segments of the psychiatry workforce. Papers should be submitted by September 1, 2013, to Manuscript Central (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/appi-ap). Please indicate in the cover letter that the submission is for this special topic. All manuscripts will undergo peer review, and publication is not guaranteed. Queries regarding possible submissions are welcome. If you wish to discuss manuscript ideas, please contact the editor-in-chief via e-mail at acadpsych@gmail.com.

Call for Papers on the Topic of Mental Health in Students for Academic Psychiatry

Academic Psychiatry invites manuscripts focusing on the topic of mental health in students. We welcome papers that focus on the mental health and well-being of college students, medical students, residents, and fellows across specialties of medicine, postdoctoral graduate students, and students in the health professions, including psychology, nursing, dentistry, and other fields. Original research and evidence-based review papers are also welcome on special topics such as sleep and sleep-related issues, self-care, the use of substances by students, the use of stimulants, including those for performance enhancement, by students, aggressive or disruptive behavior of students, and suicide. Papers should be submitted to by October 1, 2013, to Manuscript Central (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/appi-ap). Please indicate in the cover letter that the submission is for this special topic. All manuscripts will undergo peer review, and publication is not guaranteed. Queries regarding possible submissions are welcome. If you wish to discuss manuscript ideas, please contact the editor-in-chief via e-mail at acadpsych@gmail.com.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Criminal Justice Studies: Public Health & Criminal Justice

Submission deadline: August 1, 2013

Criminal Justice Studies is a quarterly journal that publishes theoretical, empirical and interpretive studies of crime and criminal justice.

Criminal Justice Studies is calling for innovative papers on “Public Health & Criminal Justice” for a special topics issue of the journal that will be published mid-2014. This issue will rely on the World Health Organization’s long-standing definition of health as, “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”. The intent of this issue is to explore salient themes in which public health and criminal justice systems intersect.

Topic may include, though are not limited to, the effects of deinstitutionalization, police interactions with the mentally ill, chronic health conditions and correctional healthcare, reentry of the mentally ill, and the health needs of special populations (e.g. juveniles, elderly, transgender).

All manuscripts should be submitted in English, follow APA style, be double-spaced throughout, including references, tables and indented quotations, and cannot be under consideration by another publication. An abstract not to exceed 200 words must be included with submissions.

Send to:

Hayden Smith, Guest Editor
Criminal Justice Studies
University of South Carolina
Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice
1305 Greene St
Columbia SC 29205
Phone: 803.777.6538
Email: Smithhp@mailbox.sc.edu

Call for Papers: American Journal of Clinical Medicine

For Fall 2013 – Vol. 10, No. 4 submit by Aug. 1, 2013

The American Journal of Clinical Medicine (AJCM) is the official, peer-reviewed journal of the American Association of Physicians Specialists, Inc. (AAPS) an organization dedicated to promoting the highest intellectual, moral and ethical standards of its members.  Its diversity incorporates physicians that represent a broad spectrum of specialties including anesthesiology, dermatology, diagnostic radiology, disaster medicine, emergency medicine, family medicine/OB, family practice, geriatric medicine, hospital medicine, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, ophthalmology, orthopedic surgery, plastic and reconstructive surgery, psychiatry, radiation oncology, general surgery and urgent care medicine.

To further the goals of AAPS, which includes providing education for its members and promoting the study research and improvement of its various specialties, the AJCM invites submissions of high-quality review articles, clinical reports, case reports or original research on any topic that has potential to impact the daily practice of medicine.

Publication in the AJCM is one of the criteria to qualify for the prestigious Degree of Fellow within the AAPS Academies of Medicine.

Call for Papers: Journal of Threat Assessment and Management

Journal of Threat Assessment and Management is a scholarly journal publishing peer-reviewed papers representing the science and practice of risk for violence and fear-inducing behavior. Journal of Threat Assessment and Management is a forum for scholarly dialogue regarding the most important emerging issues in the field. The first issue of the journal will appear in Spring 2013.

The Journal of Threat Assessment and Management will be an international periodical for professionals and scholars whose work focuses on operational aspects of threat assessment and management.

The journal will be unique in three ways.

First, it will be devoted exclusively to the subject of violence risk.

Second, it will be applied in nature, dealing with the development, implementation, and evaluation of procedures for assessing and managing violence risk.

Third, it will both reflect and promote the values of interdisciplinarity and internationalism, based on the view that preventing violence requires collaborations that cross professional and, in many cases, geopolitical boundaries.

Being published by APA connects Journal of Threat Assessment and Management to a large body of authoritative and high-quality research available through PsycARTICLES®, the most used full-text database in psychology and one of the most popular databases in all scholarly disciplines and fields. PsycARTICLES is available to a global audience of nearly 3,200 institutions and 60 million potential users.

The Journal of Threat Assessment and Management is now accepting submissions on topics such as:

Targeted violence
Threats against public figures
Stalking
Intimate partner and family violence
Terrorism
Group violence
Sexual violence
Workplace, school, and campus violence
Assessment instruments and procedures
Management strategies and tactics
Threat assessment teams and units
Operational issues
Professional issues
Legal issues
Best practices

In addition to empirical reports of original research, we encourage submissions in the form of conceptual, theoretical, procedural, or legal reviews; case studies illustrating critical issues; and scholarly or professional comments and debates.