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Call for Manuscripts on Health Education and Promotion for the Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health

The Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health is soliciting manuscripts for the 2013 continuing education theme issues on Health Education and Promotion. We invite submissions that address optimizing women’s health and reproductive health outcomes. Potential topics include:

· Health education: beyond patient handouts

· Use of social media in health education and promotion

· Promoting healthy habits

· Health promotion recommendations by age group

· Obesity

· Cardiovascular disease prevention

· Diabetes prevention

· Cancer screening

· Health disparities

· Types of psychotherapy/counseling

· Exercise

· Smoking cessation

· Substance abuse

· Sexual health

· Contraception, particularly long-acting reversible contraception (LARC)

· Health promotion for postmenopausal women

· Management of unintended pregnancy

· Preconception care

· Interconception care and/or birth spacing

· Genetics

· Prevention of birth defects

· Environmental health

· Preventing teratogenic exposures during pregnancy

Other relevant topics are welcome. All types of articles will be considered, and descriptions of the article types can be found on the next page. The deadline for initial manuscript submission is August 1, 2012.

Please send your proposed topic, type of article, and contact information to JMWH Editor-in-Chief Frances E. Likis, CNM, NP, DrPH, FACNM, at flikis@acnm.org.

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 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.

Call for Papers: Women’s Health & Urban Life

The WH & UL is a peer reviewed journal located at the Sociology Department, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. The journal addresses a wide range of topics that directly or indirectly affect both the physical and mental health of girls, teenage and adult women living in urban or urbanizing pockets of the world. The orientation of the journal is critical, feminist and social scientific. The journal accepts both quantitative and qualitative, and both theoretical and empirical articles on topics such as:

WOMEN'S HEALTH IN GENERAL

• Social and structural factors affecting women's health

• Factors in urban environments affecting women's health

• Women's use of alternate healing techniques in urban centres

• Smoking, substance abuse

• Social attitudes and women's experiences of menopause

• Beauty myths and elective surgeries in urban centres

• Eating disorders

• Sexually transmitted diseases and women's vulnerability in urban centres

• Women's mental health/stress in urban centres

• Efficacy of social support systems in women's health

• Rape trauma

• Aging and women's health

• Poverty and women's health in world cities

HEALTH RELATED TO REPRODUCTION

• New reproductive technologies and ethical considerations

• Teenage pregnancies and urban support systems

• Birth protection and abortion debates, efficacy of support systems

• Social constructions of childlessness and health implications

• Over-medicalization of women's health and the birthing process

• Cultural pressures on sex selection and women's health

HEALTH RELATED TO HOME-BASED TOPICS:

• Violence in the home such as child physical and sexual abuse, incest, intimate partner abuse and elder abuse- urban/rural differences

• Mothering related issues and women's health

• Housework safety

HEALTH RELATED TO WORK-BASED TOPICS:

• Sexual harassment and health implications

• Double shift/Second shift

• Job safety and security

• Sex workers and health in urban centres

• Women workers' health in a global market

GLOBAL ISSUES IN WOMEN'S HEALTH

• Women's health under the stress of social and environmental change

• Female child malnutrition in the developed/developing worlds

• Female child abandonment in the developed/developing worlds

• Female child labour and health in the developed/developing worlds

• Female child prostitution, sex trade and health in urban centres

• Forced marriages and women's health

• Female circumcision and genital mutilation

• Wife beating, kitchen fires, honour killings

• Rape and war and women's health

• Cultural differences in women's health

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Facilities: The Architecture of the Psychiatric Milieu

Guest Edited by Jan Golembiewski Faculty of Architecture, University of Sydney, Australia

The editorial team of Facilities are pleased to announce a call for papers for a special issue dedicated to an exploration of evidence-based approaches to establish the most appropriate architecture for the psychiatric milieu.

Facilities for psychiatric care have a tradition of standardization in design and treatment dating back to the moral treatment paradigm of the 1850’s. As normative approaches to psychiatric care have change, so too do the facilities used to house, treat and manage patients. The shift to evidence based design (EBD) in hospital architecture means that the psychiatric milieu must follow suit.

The search for evidence to model psychiatric facilities is an important endeavour. But psychiatric illness isn’t like orthopaedics or cardiology, where the needs and satisfaction of staff and patients can be relatively easy to assess and evidence can be easily measured. Mental illnesses are a heterogeneous group of disorders, and there is a risk in categorising all psychiatric illnesses together and treating them alike. Environmental influences that exacerbate one condition frequently assist with another. As such, Facilities is soliciting approaches that are specific to:

geriatric psychiatry
mood disorders
the non-affective psychotic spectrum
psychiatric emergencies
substance-related disorders
facilities for forensic psychiatry

This list is not exhaustive and interested authors are encouraged to contact the Guest Editor with alternative proposals. Please kindly take note of the following requirements if you wish to have your paper considered for this Special Issue:

The content of the paper must conform to the terms of reference of Facilities
All papers submitted will be subject to the normal double blind refereeing process undertaken by the journal
Submitted papers must not be under review by any other journal
The closing date for submissions is: 1st June 2012

Submissions to Facilities are made using ScholarOne Manuscripts, Emerald's online submission and peer review system. Registration and access is available at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/f. Full information and guidance on using ScholarOne Manuscripts is available at the Emerald ScholarOne Manuscripts Support Centre: http://msc.emeraldinsight.com

Call for Papers for a Special Edition of Child & Family Social Work: Rediscovering Family and Kinship: New Directions for Social Work Theory, Policy and Practice

Guest Co-Editors
Dr Janette Logan, Senior Lecturer in Social Work, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL
Tel: 0161 306 7748
Email: janette.logan@manchester.ac.uk

Dr Christine Jones, Lecturer in Social Work, School of Applied Social Sciences, University of Durham, Elvet Riverside 2, New Elvet, Durham, DH1 3JT
Tel: ++44 (0)191 334 1478
Email: christine.jones@durham.ac.uk

Target Publication date: Spring 2013
The concepts of family and kinship are central to social work research, policy and practice yet they are often treated unproblematically. The study of family relationships has undergone a renaissance in the last two decades within the disciplines of sociology and anthropology and this rediscovery is beginning to be felt within the discipline of social work. Empirical research within the field of adoption has opened up definitions of family and kinship. Also the move towards increased emphasis on kinship care has necessitated a re-examination of the meaning of family relationships and nature of family practices. In addition, there have been a number of studies that have challenged the orthodoxy embedded within heterosexist assumptions about what constitutes a ‘proper’ family. This special edition will be an opportunity to both review developments within the conceptualization of family and kinship in social work and begin to shape the agenda for future research, policy and practice.

The Aims of this Special Edition are:

1. To provide analyses of contemporary conceptualizations of family and kinship and their implications for child and family social work;
2. To showcase recent empirical research that relates to any aspect of kinship or family relationships;
3. To explore international/cross cultural issues in relation to kinship.
4. To encourage a cross-disciplinary debate (both academic and practice disciplines) regarding the application of these insights within future research, policy and practice.

Guidance for contributors
Potential contributors are invited to submit manuscripts that address the aims of the Special Edition. We seek to attract a diverse set of papers that have relevance across a number of child and family social work policy and practice areas such as adoption, fostering, and kinship care, the impact on family life of mental illness, substance misuse or domestic violence, multigenerational adversity and family separation and reunification. However, the key focus of this special edition is on exploring new developments of theory and concepts within these diverse contexts.

More specifically authors could include:

• Analyses that extend our understanding of the perspectives of those involved in child placement (e.g. children and their siblings, birth parents, grandparents, foster and adoptive parents, practitioners).
• Analyses that explore private and public daily practices related to family life and social work practice.
• Analyses of the influence of structural inequalities on family relationships.
• Analyses of the relationship between family ties (or family like ties) and outcomes for children.

Manuscripts should normally be a maximum of 7,000 words, including abstracts and references, although shorter papers will be welcomed.
Deadline of first submission of papers: 1 September 2012

If prospective authors would like to discuss possible papers, please email the guest editors in the first instance and include a short abstract.

Janette Logan: janette.logan@manchester.ac.uk
Chris Jones: christine.jones@durham.ac.uk

Call for Submissions for a Special Issue of the International Journal of Alcohol and Drug Research: Alcohol and Traffic Safety

IJADR invites paper submissions on biological/behavioural aspects to social, policy and public health concerns related to alcohol and traffic safety. This special issue will be published in March, 2013. Paper submission deadline is June 30, 2012.

The International Journal of Alcohol and Drug Research, a peer-reviewed, free-of-charge, open access journal and the official Journal of the Kettil Bruun Society for Social and Epidemiological Research on Alcohol (KBS), invites the submission of papers on international perspectives on alcohol and traffic safety. Papers may deal with any aspect of the impact of alcohol on traffic safety, ranging from biological and behavioural aspects to social, policy and public health concerns. We encourage submissions that seek to improve understanding the nature of the problem, that identify and evaluate current practices to address the problem, and that consider new or innovative countermeasures. The target date for publication of the Special Issue is March, 2013. Accepted papers will be published online prior to their inclusion in this special issue in order to make the research available more quickly.

It has long been known that alcohol impairs driving-related skills, and increases the likelihood of collision involvement. In spite of many efforts to address the drinking-driving problem, it remains a leading cause of alcohol-related deaths and serious injuries. We encourage the submission of original articles (including both quantitative and qualitative research), methodological pieces, reviews, and policy analyses for consideration for the special issue. Examples of papers that would be of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: papers that examine the impact of comorbid conditions on drinking driving and alcohol effects; synergistic combinations of alcohol and other drugs on driving impairment issues; papers that examine the rates or determinants of drinking-driving in specific populations, groups or parts of the world; papers that review measures to address drinking driving or factors that influence drinking driving rates in specific countries or regions of the world; international reviews of drinking driving rates or initiatives. We are particularly interested in creating a forum for viewing the drinking driving issue from an international perspective. Interested authors are encouraged to contact the two editors of the special issue for additional information, and we particularly encourage submission of papers from authors in developing countries (i.e., low and middle income countries). All submissions should be prepared in accordance with the Author Guidelines outlined in the Journal website at www.ijadr.org, and be submitted through the website. Please indicate in the cover letter accompanying your manuscript that you would like to have the paper considered for the special issue on alcohol and traffic safety. Guest editors of the special issue on the alcohol and traffic safety are Drs. Jim Lange and Robert Mann. Contact information is below.

Jim Lange, PhD, AOD Initiatives, San Diego State University

6386 Alvarado Ct, Suite 224,San Diego, CA 92120 jlange@mail.sdsu.edu

Robert Mann, PhD
Social and Epidemiological Research, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 33 Russell Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 2S1 robert_mann@camh.net

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Substance Use and Misuse: Drugs, Wars, Soldiers and Veterans

The international journal Substance Use and Misuse is soliciting submissions for a special issue about Drugs, Wars, Soldiers and Veterans.

Guest Editors are: Andrew Golub, Ph.D. and Alexander Bennett, Ph.D.

This special issue will broadly explore issues related to drugs, substance use, and military conflicts which may or may not be officially identified as war. Substances considered can include licit and illicit drugs, alcohol, tobacco, and the use of prescription drugs for non-medical purposes. Papers may address the following broad areas of interest:

Drug use during conflicts. For many, the experiences of war can involve substance use for recreation, coping, and performance enhancement. This usage may be an individual choice, part of a prevailing culture, or even expected and/or facilitated by some level of the military command.

Returning veterans. Returning veterans may continue substance using behaviors rooted in their military experience or develop new behaviors perhaps in response to military experiences and possibly related mental health concerns. We are interested in all aspects of veterans substance use including use/abuse, markets, contexts of consumption, related consequences, and treatment experiences, globally as well as historically.

Other roles of drugs in war and conflict. Members of military and paramilitary organizations as well as the organizations themselves have often engaged in trafficking. Some organizations have used the revenue to support their military efforts. In this regard drugs can be intimately involved with the functioning and purpose of a military conflict.

The importance of this topic has again been highlighted as more is learned about the experiences of U.S. military personnel and veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts. However, the relationship between drugs and military conflict is complex and not unique to these recent experiences. For this special issue we are interested in these and other conflicts both current and historical. Submissions may take any of a range of disciplinary approaches including but not limited to public health, public policy, institutional, historical, sociological, epidemiological, and anthropological perspectives.

Authors should be sure to emphasize the relevance of their work for an international audience of scholars with differing academic backgrounds as well as intervention and policy implications. Articles should seek to raise important new questions, documenting dilemmas and paradoxes which merit concern and that advance our thinking about complex multi-dimensional processes and situations.

Abstracts are due by July 1, 2012. Papers will be due October 31, 2012. All submissions will be peer reviewed. For further information contact Dr. Andrew Golub.