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Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Health, Culture and Society: Translating Happiness: Medicine, Culture and Social Progress

This year the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) proclaimed March 20th the International Day of Happiness. This day is premised on international recognition of the pursuit of happiness as a fundamental human goal, and a means of promoting sustainable development. International acknowledgement of the important role that happiness plays in development is also displayed in the 2012 World Happiness Report, as well as a host of recent changes to national social policies, community infrastructures and health services.

This special issue of Health, Culture and Society (HCS) explores the multiple and contested ways of knowing happiness. We are particularly interested in research that analyzes the translations of happiness. According to Nikolas Rose, translation provides for the possibility of government: “In the dynamics of translation, alignments are forged between the objectives of those wishing to govern and the personal projects of those organizations, groups, and individuals who are the subjects of government” (1999, p. 48). This issue aims to construct a comprehensive picture of the important role that translations of happiness – as made to appear in social philosophy, featured in the emerging field of positive psychology, mapped in global happiness indexes, or communicated in concepts such as ‘well-being’ or ‘quality of life’ – play in contemporary understandings of the ‘human’ and ‘human development.’ Papers are sought that explore the relations between happiness and health, and examine the social, cultural and political contexts of medical translations of happiness. Papers that share comparative analyses of happiness or that adopt a critical paradigm and analyze the role of conceptions of happiness in the diagnosis of individual and social ills and the reproduction of inequality are especially welcome.

Potential topic areas include:

• Happiness and Disability/Disablement/Ableism

• Happiness, Health Services and Social Policy

• Politicization of Happiness (Happiness Indexes)

• Cartographies of Happiness (e.g., ‘Happiness Maps’)

• Happiness and Constructions of ‘the Human’/Humanity

• Economic Paradigms of Happiness

• Ecological Perspectives

• Happiness and National Development (e.g., Gross National Happiness and/vs. Gross National Domestic Product)

• Happiness and Imperialism/The Colonial Continuum

• Happiness and Racialization/Racism

• Happiness and Global Governance

• Happiness and Self-Governance (e.g., The Emergence of Self-Help Literature)

• Happiness and Choice/The Making of the ‘Rational Subject’

• Happiness and Disciplinary Knowledge

• Happiness and Social Order (incl.: Happiness and Social Change; Happiness and the Pathologization of Resistance)

• Genealogies of Happiness (Historical Perspectives)

• Happiness Across the Lifecycle/The Role of Happiness in ‘Positive’ or Healthy Aging

• Happiness, Identity and Community/Solidarity and Subjective Well-being

• Happiness, Gender and Sexuality

• Happiness and Patriarchy

• Happiness, Heterosexism and Homophobia

• Happiness and Spirituality

• Happiness, Leisure and Lifestyle

• The Commodification of Happiness/Happiness and Consumer Culture

• (Re)Discovering (Un)Happiness – Diagnostic Tools and their Discontents (e.g., The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition)

• Happiness, Resilience and Recovery

• A Poetics of Happiness/Happiness and the Art of Living

• Happiness and Desire

• Happiness and a Politics of Love

• Embodiment and Happiness Research/Phenomenological Perspectives

Interested contributors are invited to send a 250 word proposal to katieaubrecht@gmail.com no later than July 15th. Prospective contributors will be notified of acceptance by July 30th. For accepted proposals full papers will be due September 27th. Manuscripts submitted for inclusion in this special issue must be in APA format, be original work and should not be under consideration by any other journal.

Works Cited:

Rose, N. (1999). Powers of freedom: Reframing political thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

About the Journal:

Health,Culture and Society (HCS) is an important contribution to the medical humanities and the social history of health. It will promote critical studies, disseminate important contemporary research and act as an international podium for the exchange of new ideas, strategies and practices. The journal is geared towards an inter-disciplinary approach to issues of health, culture and society inviting contributions from a diversity of fields. HCS will reflect the very real developments in ideas that shape our modern understandings of health, and how cultural and social factors are important to its paradigm. The journal encourages original and funded research into regional developments which can impact upon the global image of health, society and culture.

HCS is the product of initiative, research and debate centered on the history and development of the health paradigm. The facilitation of the University of Pittsburgh, the CNPq and the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, as well as the Wellcome Trust and the University of Western Santa Catarina (UnoChapeco), made it possible to eventually bring together important and emerging voices in the debate of health which define the new critical perspectives, and research from the physical and social sciences. HCS serves as a platform which has been developed to meet the contemporary necessity for international dialogue, partnerships, collaboration, knowledge transformation and global integration.

Johanna K. Tabin Press Book Proposal Prize

The aim of this prize is to encourage psychoanalytic writing by Division 39 members who have yet to publish a psychoanalytic book.

This is the fifth annual contest for a first book by a psychoanalytic author. The winner receives a $1000 cash prize, certificate of recognition, and guarantee of publication by the APA Press. The aim of this prize is to encourage psychoanalytic writing by Division 39 members who have yet to publish a psychoanalytic book. We look for good writing, originality, as well as clinical and scholarly relevance. While some previously published material may be included, the proposed book should consist primarily of new work and promise to be an original and coherent monograph. Edited collections of previously published papers are not acceptable, nor are edited volumes of contributions by more than one author. Simultaneous submissions to other publishers will disqualify the entry.

Division 39 and APA Press announce that beginning in 2012, the Johanna K. Tabin/Division 39 APA Book Proposal Prize will be awarded at the Division 39 Spring Meeting, consequently, the deadline for submissions has been changed.

Annual submissions are due by December 31.

Eligibility

We look for good writing, originality, as well as clinical and scholarly relevance. While some previously published material may be included, the proposed book should consist primarily of new work and promise to be an original and coherent monograph. Edited collections of previously published papers are not acceptable, nor are edited volumes of contributions by more than one author. Simultaneous submissions to other publishers will disqualify the entry.

How To Apply

The proposal should consist of:

a cover letter with the only mention of the author's identifying and contact information

a full CV (with name deleted)

a statement of the mission, scope, and potential contribution of the project to psychoanalysis; this statement should be complete enough that the reviewers can gain a good sense of the theme of the book and its potential contribution to the field

table of contents

one, and only one, sample chapter that represents the theme of the monograph

Submissions are accepted in hard copy only and must be in quintuplicate. Blind review evaluations are conducted by the Book Proposal Prize Committee and an Honorary Judge.
All submissions for a given year's award must be submitted by December 31 of the previous year to:

Book Prize Division of Psychoanalysis
2615 Amesbury Road
Winston Salem, NC 27103

Questions should be addressed to:

Frank Summers, PhD, ABPP
Telephone: (312) 266-8230

Stephen Mitchell Award

Established by Psychoanalytic Psychology and the Board of the Division of Psychoanalysis, the award honors our esteemed colleague as well as a graduate student whose paper is deemed exemplary by a panel of judges. The award includes a $500 cash prize, plus $500 to cover expenses to attend and present at the Division Spring Meeting, as well as publication in Psychoanalytic Psychology.

How to Apply

The deadline for submissions for the 2014 Mitchell Award is August 1, 2013. All current graduate students and graduates who have received their degree within the last three years are eligible to apply for the award. The winner will be announced in December 2013.

An electronic version of the paper, along with a cover letter, should be submitted to the editor, Elliot Jurist. Please include the words "Mitchell Award 2014" in the subject line.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Psychology of Violence: The Measurement of Violence and Victimization

A Special Issue for Psychology of Violence Edited by John Grych and Sherry Hamby

Psychology of Violence invites manuscripts for a special issue on the measurement of violence and victimization, including self-report, observational, and experimental techniques for assessing violence and mechanisms proposed to cause violence. It is our hope that this special issue will help propel the study of violence forward and become a resource for anyone looking for guidance on conducting state-of-the-art research on violence.

Violence research was launched in part by the realization that people would disclose involvement in violence on confidential self-report surveys, whether this involvement involved victimization, perpetration, or both. Many surveys have now been developed to measure violence and related constructs. The field has also seen advances in experimental approaches to the study of violence, from Milgram's obedience experiment to modern techniques such as the Hot Sauce paradigm.

Our success in measuring violence has transformed research, intervention, and policy. However, existing measurement strategies have also produced unresolved controversies, such as questions about gender patterns in intimate partner violence and the impact of exposure to media violence. No field of science can rest on its laurels and the need for innovation is ever present.

This issue is intended to address the primary methodological limitations getting in the way of better understanding the causes, rates, and consequences of violence, especially those pertaining to measurement, and to offer potential solutions to these problems. It will focus on all facets of the measurement of violence, including but not limited to those suggested below.

We conceptualize violence broadly, including child maltreatment, intimate partner violence, bullying, community violence, teen dating violence, elder abuse, sexual aggression, conventional crime, psychological aggression, suicidal behavior, and stalking, and papers addressing any form of violence are welcome.
Topics may include but are not limited to:

New approaches to the measurement of any form of violence or victimization and the mechanisms hypothesized to cause violence
Assessment of aggression and violence in laboratory settings

Innovative methods for studying mechanisms hypothesized to cause violence (e.g., implicit cognitive processes, biological/genetic factors).

Measuring violence equally validly across groups that vary by gender, ethnicity, race, culture, sexual orientation or other groups who may experience different rates, risks, and consequences for violence

Developmental considerations in assessing violence

Papers focusing on conceptual or definitional issues

Challenges and approaches for obtaining accurate disclosure of violence & victimization

Diagnostic accuracy (such as estimates of sensitivity and specificity)

Ethical issues in violence measurement

Reviews of the state of violence measurement within or across sub-disciplines

Manuscripts can be submitted through the journal's submission portal. Please note in your cover letter that you are submitting for the special issue. Deadline for submitting manuscripts is August 25, 2013. Inquiries regarding topic or scope for the special issue or for other manuscripts can be sent to John Grych or Sherry Hamby.

Call for Papers for a Special Section of the Journal of Abnormal Psychology: Stress Sensitivity in Psychopathology: Mechanisms and Consequences

Sensitivity to stress is a primary mechanism contributing to the etiology and maintenance of many forms of psychopathology. Indeed, enhanced stress sensitivity has been proposed as a key endophenotype for major depressive disorder, anxiety, and schizophrenia. Nevertheless, the theoretical and empirical literatures addressing the integration of methods and mechanisms across levels of analysis of the stress response – environmental/contextual, behavioral, cognitive-affective, neural – are still underdeveloped and many questions remain unanswered regarding the underlying mechanisms and functional consequences of stress sensitivity in psychopathology.

There is evidence for heightened subjective, behavioral, and neural reactivity to induced stress in depression and other forms of psychopathology, as well as decreased thresholds for response to stressful contexts and life events. Such enhanced stress sensitivity has been included into conceptual and etiological models of psychopathology. Yet, the specific mechanisms by which stress sensitivity impacts the phenomenology of psychiatric disorders are not fully understood. Studies indexing stress sensitivity via psychoneuroendocrinological function have contributed important advances in understanding the basic brain processes associated with the body’s stress response.

There is also growing evidence that various contextual, cognitive, personality and behavioral factors impact the endocrine response to acute stressors. However, the extent to which enhanced stress sensitivity observed in psychiatric disorders can be primarily attributed to dysregulation of core endocrine processes (e.g., adrenal sensitivity, poor regulatory feedback) versus other biopsychosocial factors (e.g., cognitive biases) is unclear.

At the same time, the field of life events has clarified in fine-grained detail the changing role of life events in the etiology and recurrence of various disorders. However, how these putative outcomes are moderated or mediated by cognitive, affective, and biological mechanisms that regulate stress responses is less clear.

The special section of Journal of Abnormal Psychology will focus on the role of sensitivity to stress in a variety of forms of psychopathology.

The special section will ideally include papers both on disorders long thought to involve heightened stress sensitivity (e.g., major depressive disorder) as well as disorders for which an emphasis on stress is less common (e.g., bipolar disorder, disruptive behavioral disorders).

Papers for the special section will address one or more aspects of enhanced stress sensitivity as they influence the etiology and pathophysiology of psychopathology.

Empirical papers will focus on the use of state-of-the-art methods to capture sensitivity to environmental context, such as contextual life event interviews, ecological momentary assessments, laboratory-based stress induction, neurohormonal assay, fMRI, EEG, or behavioral coding.

We will also consider theoretical papers that make a novel contribution to clarifying the mechanism and/or assessment of stress sensitivity in psychopathology.

We particularly seek papers that take a developmental perspective, which includes understanding both the initial onset of psychopathology and the course of psychopathology. Thus, the populations of interest could range from children to adults. In addition, topics could include heightened stress sensitivity as a vulnerability marker in high-risk populations or as a predictor of later onset of psychopathology.

Please email an abstract (200 words or fewer) of a proposed submission by September 1, 2013.

Full submissions should be submitted through the Journal’s electronic portal, under the Instructions to Authors by February 15, 2014. Do not send a completed manuscript without approval of the abstract.

All submissions for the special section will go through the normal peer-review process, with no guarantee of acceptance. All submissions must comply with APA policies, including certification of compliance with APA ethical principles for research, the prohibition of multiple submissions and duplicate publication, authors' obligation to retain raw data, and other requirements for submission to the Journal of Abnormal Psychology as noted on the submission site.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of Pediatric Psychology: Peer Relations in Youth with Chronic Illness

Editors: Vicki S. Helgeson, PHD (guest), and Grayson N. Holmbeck, PHD

Due Date: March 1, 2014

Researchers have recognized the importance of the social environment in adjustment to chronic illness among youth with a variety of health conditions, but the vast majority of this research has focused on the family. The peer social environment is a second important social context for youth, and one that takes on increasing importance during the adolescent period of development. Despite the fact that researchers recognize the importance of peer relations to the development of children and adolescents, little research in the area of chronic illness has focused on peer relations. Among the studies that do exist, research has found that supportive peer relations have implications for quality of life and physical health. Even less research has focused on the unsupportive or conflictive aspects of peer relations, but those that do find strong connections to psychological distress, poor adherence, and impaired physical health. The mechanisms for these associations have not been well articulated theoretically or examined empirically.

The aim of this special issue is to highlight studies that examine implications of peer relations for the well-being of youth with chronic illness. We construe well-being broadly, including quality of life, psychological distress, psychological growth, adherence, risk behavior, and physical health. Studies may focus on children, adolescents, and/or emerging adults. Priority will be given to studies that use innovative research designs that move beyond cross-sectional data and that identify mechanisms by which peer relations are connected to health. The use of multiple methods (e.g., qualitative and quantitative; self-report and direct observation), the use of multiple informants (e.g., youth and parent or peer), or a focus on multiple contexts (e.g., peer and family contexts or peer and school contexts) are strongly encouraged. Intervention studies are also welcomed.

Submissions for this special issue will be accepted until March 1, 2014

Articles should be prepared in compliance with JPP’s Instructions to Authors (http://jpepsy.oxfordjournals.org/) and submitted through the ScholarOne Manuscript Central submission portal (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jpepsy).

Manuscripts will be peer reviewed. Articles that are not appropriate for inclusion in this special issue may be rerouted (with the authors’ knowledge and consent) for consideration for publication in JPP as regular articles. Please indicate in the cover letter accompanying your manuscript that you would like to have the article considered for the Special Issue on Peer Relations in Youth with Chronic Illness

Please direct all inquiries to Vicki S. Helgeson at vh2e@andrew.cmu.edu or Grayson Holmbeck at gholmbe@luc.edu.

Call for Submissions for a Special Issue of the Journal of Pediatric Psychology: Direct Observation in Pediatric Psychology Research

Guest Editor: Tim Wysocki, PHD, ABPP

The predominant measurement methodology in pediatric psychology consists of variants of self-report questionnaires and rating scales based on the respondent’s recall or subjective impressions of specified dimensions (e.g., frequency, intensity, or duration) of behavioral, cognitive, affective, or social variables of interest. Although this strategy is attractive in terms of intrusiveness, labor intensity, and cost, there are reasons to question its scientific rigor especially in circumstances in which alternative measurement approaches could be used. Studies comparing direct observation methods with self-report questionnaire or retrospective rating scale measures have often shown that the latter methods tend to be influenced by recall bias, social desirability, and disagreement among respondents. These sources of bias and artifact may increase measurement error, impede detection of significant associations, and increase necessary sample sizes in randomized trials.

The aims of this special issue are to highlight innovative applications of direct observation research methods in pediatric psychology and to stimulate readers to conceive and evaluate such methods for use in their future research. Appropriate articles for this special issue may focus on a range of topics, including, but not limited to, the use of direct observation or audio and video recording of behavioral or psychological variables of interest in either naturalistic or simulated contexts; the validation of new or adapted observational coding schemes for applications in pediatric psychology; demonstrations of statistical treatments or psychometric evaluations that are pertinent to direct observation methods; the use of electronic methods of real-time data capture, such as use of accelerometers in studies of sleep or physical activity, MEMS caps for assessment of medication adherence, or data stored by blood glucose meters and insulin pumps in diabetes; evaluations of observational reactivity in studies using such methods; and assessments of the feasibility and acceptability of direct observation methods from the perspectives of study participants. Studies validating innovative applications of direct observation methods would be of particular interest.

Submissions for this special issue will be accepted until February 1, 2014

Articles should conform to the journal’s Instructions to Authors (http://jpepsy.oxfordjournals.org/) and submitted via ScholarOne Manuscript Central (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jpepsy). Manuscripts will be peer reviewed. Articles that are not appropriate for inclusion in this special issue may be rerouted (with the authors’ consent) for consideration for publication in JPP as regular articles. Please indicate in a letter accompanying your manuscript that you would like to have the article considered for the Special Issue on Direct Observation in Pediatric Psychology Research.

Please direct all inquiries to Tim Wysocki, PhD, at twysocki@nemours.org.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Europe’s Journal of Psychology: Humor, Well-Being and Health

August 2014 Special Issue of EJOP on “Humor, Well-Being and Health”

Guest Editor: Nicholas A. Kuiper, Ph.D.

Over the past decade there has been an exponential growth in psychological research investigating the impact of humor on psychological well-being and physical health. As such, a presentation of contemporary psychological research and theory on this topic will be the focus of the August 2014 Special Humor Issue of EJOP. For this issue we are interested in now receiving papers that deal with the various facets of humor, well-being and health. This could include, for example, novel and well-designed research papers documenting the facilitative effects of humor on well-being and/or physical health. Here, we are interested in papers that show how humor might (1) function to enhance positive life experiences, or (2) minimize or even eliminate the detrimental psychological and/or physical health impact of stressful events or life circumstances. Conversely, we are also interested in papers detailing the circumstances under which humor could have a negative impact on either psychological well-being or physical health. Humor can be defined broadly in this research, and could include humor or laughter as a manipulation (e.g., watching a funny film); as an emotional regulation strategy for dealing with both negative and positive life events; or as an individual difference variable that could be either adaptive (such as self-enhancing humor) or maladaptive (such as aggressive humor). Although our primary focus will be on presenting the most innovative research papers in this domain, we would also be interested in receiving strong theoretical contributions (including literature review papers) that significantly advance our understanding of the psychological processes and mechanisms that may underlie the positive (or negative) effects of humor and laughter on physical health and psychological well-being.

Submission Process: All papers should be submitted through the regular EJOP submission process no later than January 20, 2014 and should confirm to all of the requirements listed on the EJOP website (www.ejop.psychopen.eu/index.php/ejop). All papers received for this special issue will be processed by the Special Guest Editor (Professor Nick Kuiper, kuiper@uwo.ca). Those papers subsequently selected for inclusion in the Special Humor Issue must provide a significant increase in our knowledge base concerning humor’s role in psychological well-being and health, while also meeting all standards for publication.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing: Technologies for Affect and Wellbeing

Guest Editors

Rafael A. Calvo (The University of Sydney)

Giuseppe Riva (ICE-NET Lab- Universitta Catolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan Italy)

Christine Lisetti (Florida International University)

Background and Motivation

There is an increased interest in using computer interaction to detect and support users’ physical and psychological wellbeing.  Computers can afford multiple forms of transformational experiences. Some of these experiences can be purposely designed to, for example, detect and regulate students’ affective states to improve aspects of their learning experiences. They can also be used in computer-based psychological interventions that treat psychological illness or that preventively promote wellbeing, healthy lifestyles, and mental health.

The application domain, so far referred to as ‘positive computing’, ‘positive technologies’, and ‘positive design’, draws on ideas from positive psychology, particularly the extensive research on developing human strengths and wellbeing. It is closely linked to the HCI work on personal informatics, and the development of tools that help people learn more about themselves through reflection.

This special issue will focus on ideas, methods and case studies for how affective computing can contribute to this goal. Articles should discuss how information that computers collect about our behaviour, cognition – and particularly affect can be used in the further understanding, nurturing or development of wellbeing and human strengths: e.g. self-understanding, empathy, intrinsic motivation toward wellbeing healthy lifestyles.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

Systems to detect or support positive emotions and human strengths for example Reflection, Empathy, Happiness, Gratitude, Self-understanding/ interpersonal skills, Emotional intelligence/ emotion regulation, Social intelligence/ intrapersonal skills, Motivation.

Using affect and motivation for physical and psychological health.

Cyberpsychology for positive psychology and wellbeing

HCI design strategies for support of wellbeing and human strengths

Virtual Reality for support of wellbeing or human strengths

Positive personal health informatics for health promotion

Patient-centered technologies for healthy behaviour change

Empathic intelligent virtual agents for lifestyle monitoring and behaviour change

Mobile applications of affective computing for health and wellbeing

Informatics technologies for patient empowerment

Dates
 
Submission Deadline:  July 1st, 2013   

Notification of Acceptance:  October 1st, 2013    

Final Manuscripts Due:  December 1st, 2013    

Date of Publication: March 2014

Review process

The Transactions on Affective Computing Special Issue on “Affect and wellbeing” will consist of papers on techniques, methods, case studies and their evaluation. Some papers may survey various aspects of the topic, particularly in ways that bring the psychological, health and wellbeing, and technical literature together. The balance between these will be adjusted to maximize the impact of the special issue. All articles are expected to follow the standard review procedures for the IEEE TAC.

For more information about the issue, or to let us know that you are planning to submit an article, please email Rafael.calvo [at] sydney.edu.au

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