Underserved Populations calls for papers / publications

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 Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine: Migration and Health

Submission deadline: Augst 1, 2013

Call for Manuscripts for a Special Issue of the Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice: Sexual Health Among Heterosexual Communities of Color Across the Life Span

 Deadline for Submission of Manuscripts:  June 30, 2013 at midnight PT

The Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice will be publishing a special issue on sexual health among heterosexual communities of color across the life span in early Spring 2014.  Melva Thompson-Robinson, DrPH and Marya Shegog, PhD will serve as editors of this special issue. 

This issue will explore the spectrum of sexual health among heterosexual communities of color across the life span, potential areas include:

· impact of intimate partner violence on sexual health at various stages of the life span

· impact of chronic disease on sexual health

· role of mental health and sexual risk taking

· role of social determinants in HIV/AIDS and/or STIs

The Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice is an online journal that explores the problems and challenges of health disparities among the diverse populations within the United State and the world. The journal invites submission of original papers from researchers, public health practitioners, and students researching and working on health disparities solutions.

Submitted articles cannot have been previously published, nor be forthcoming in an archival journal or book (print or electronic). Please note: "publication" in a working-paper series does not constitute prior publication. In addition, by submitting material to Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice, the author is stipulating that the material is not currently under review at another journal (electronic or print) and that he or she will not submit the material to another journal (electronic or print) until the completion of the editorial decision process at Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice. If you have concerns about the submission terms for Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice, please contact the editors.

For information about the Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice, see: http://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/jhdrp/

For information for authors, see: http://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/jhdrp/policies.html

To submit a manuscript, please follow the instructions for the Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice.  Be sure to indicate in your file name “special issue”.  (For example, titlename.specialissue.doc.)  Also be sure to send the manuscript to both editors below.

For questions about the special issue and/or to be a reviewer, please contact either:

Melva Thompson-Robinson, DrPH Marya Shegog, PhD
Melva.thompson-robinson@unlv.edu marya.shegog@unlv.edu

Call for Papers: The Lancet Global Health

Launching in June, 2013, The Lancet Global Health will publish high-quality original research, commentary, correspondence, and blogs on the following subjects as they pertain to low- and middle-income countries: reproductive, maternal, neonatal, and child health; adolescent health; infectious diseases, including neglected tropical diseases; non-communicable diseases; mental health; the global health workforce; health systems; health policy; and public health. All original research will be subjected to The Lancet's usual rigorous standards of external clinical and statistical peer review, and will be edited by experienced copy editors to the highest standards.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of Public Mental Health: Mental Health and Human Rights

Deadline: 1 June, 2013

The Journal of Public Mental Health announces a call for papers for a special issue on mental health and human rights, to be published in 2013.

Accepted contributions include original research papers, systematic reviews, policy analyses and case studies. In 2012 the World Health Organization (WHO) Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse launched the QualityRights (QR) Project, which aims to improve the quality and human rights conditions in mental health and social care facilities and empower civil society organization to advocate for the rights of people with mental and psychosocial disabilities. This call for papers aims to inform the core objectives of qualityrights to:

•Improve the quality of services and human rights conditions in inpatient and outpatient mental health facilities.

•Build capacity among service users, families and health workers to understand and promote human rights and recovery from mental disabilities.

•Develop a civil society movement of people with mental disabilities to provide mutual support, conduct advocacy and influence policy-making processes in line with international human rights standards.

•Reform national policies and legislation in line with best practice and international human rights standards.

•Address stigma and discrimination.

We are keen to attract papers from academics, practitioners and activists in resource-scarce countries. Papers for this special edition should be marked with ‘QualityRights’ in the title. The manuscript selection process will follow the journal peer review procedures.

Submit articles to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jpmh before 1st June 2013. Informal enquiries to: Leeknifton@gmail.com

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Al-Raida on Women's Health in the Arab World

In recent years, women in the Arab world have contended with a tumultuous political and economic times that resulted in revolutions, wars, collapsed economies, and rapidly shifting religious and cultural landscapes. This special issue of Al-Raida on Women's Health in the Arab World calls for papers addressing women's health and experiences of health care in the Arab region. It is especially concerned with women's health in the context of these changing, and increasingly westernized, health systems.

It is the hope of this Special Issue to consider health as a site of contestation where local and global cultural, political, and economic forces compete, and often stand in opposition to women's agency. We are interested in papers that address some of the following questions: how do women reconcile their desires about their fertility with their economic, cultural, and political realities in nations that are experiencing collapsed economies and political conflict? How do women negotiate birthing regimes (traditional versus technocratic) in an increasingly globalized environment? What are the reasons behind the increasing rates of cosmetic surgeries, and how do women negotiate the competing notions of bodily aesthetics and marriage prospects?

In this Special Issue, we hope to provide a forum for researchers to share their knowledge and expertise on women's health in the Arab World from an interdisciplinary perspective. We welcome papers from all disciplines including anthropology, sociology, demography, political science, and economics.

We welcome papers that address the following:

Social construction of illnesses and diseases

Stress and the pharmaceutical industry

Mental Health, depression, and anxiety

Pregnancy, delivery and the medicalization of birth

Demographic shifts and governmental natalist policies

Minority women's health and access to care

Cosmetic surgeries

Female genital cutting/mutilation/circumcision

Health-seeking behavior

Gender inequity and health

Religious interpretations and access to health care

Chronic diseases

Cancer

In addition to academic papers we would also like to include critical pieces, testimonials, personal essays, interviews, short stories, poems, conference reports, and book reviews.

Submitted papers should be prepared in English in MS Word and should adhere to the journal's submission guidelines. Research articles should be between 6000-8000 words, including notes and references. They should be accompanied by an abstract of 200 words and include 5 to 6 keywords. The article must contain a separate title page that should include: the title of the paper; the name(s) and affiliation(s) of the author(s); full contact details of the author(s); and the author's brief biographical statement (up to 40 words). Papers should not have already been published, or be simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere.

The editorial committee of Al-Raida will inform the author within 6 to 8 weeks of submission whether or not the article will be sent out for refereeing. A decision about acceptability for publication will usually be taken within 12 weeks of submission to the reviewers. Submitted articles will be sent anonymously to two different reviewers. Acceptance of articles for publication will then be subject to modification as suggested by the reviewers.

Articles submitted for publication should be sent directly to the guest editor Marianne Sarkis at the following address: msarkis@clarku.edu and to the managing editor, Ms. Myriam Sfeir, at myriam.sfeir@lau.edu.lb

For full details kindly visit the following website at http://iwsaw.lau.edu.lb

Deadline for complete manuscripts: May 30, 2013

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 for a Special Issue of Hypatia: New Conversations in Feminist Disability Studies

August 15, 2013 submission deadline

Volume 30, Issue 1, Winter 2015
Edited by Kim Q. Hall

Hypatia: Journal of Feminist Philosophy is seeking new work for a special issue on disability with the general theme of New Conversations in Feminist Disability Studies. In 2001 Hypatia published its first special issue on feminist philosophy and disability. Since that time, there has been a great deal of disability scholarship in feminist and queer theory. A new special issue provides the opportunity to consider interventions, innovations, and transformations in feminist theory occasioned by theories and concepts that animate feminist disability studies, disability studies, queer disability studies/crip theory.

Within philosophy, much of the discussion of disability has occurred in the areas of bioethics, ethics of care, and social and political philosophy. This work remains crucial for furthering philosophical understanding of disability. In addition to these areas of philosophy, this special issue seeks to provide a space for new feminist philosophical analyses of disability, as well as new feminist, queer, and feminist queer crip conversations between scholarship on disability in ethics and social and political philosophy and scholarship on disability in epistemology, science studies, environmental philosophy, ecofeminism, queer ecology, aesthetics, critical race theory, metaphysics, phenomenology, and queer theory. Papers on any topic pertaining to feminist or feminist queer crip analyses of disability are welcome, including (but not limited to) the following:

-Disability and Phenomenology

-Disability and epistemologies of ignorance

-Disability, gender, race, class, and sexuality

-Disability, national identity, and nationalism

-Disability and/as “assemblage”

-Disability and the question of “the animal”

-Disability and posthumanism

-Disability, ethics, and politics

-Disability and globalization

-Access, accommodation, quality of life

-Bodies and borders

-Able-bodiedness and able-mindedness

-Disability and environmentalism, ecology, ecofeminism, and/or queer ecology

-Disability, feminist materialism, and “agential realism”

-The relationship between impairment and disability identity

-Illness, disease, impairment, bodily limitation, pain, failure

-Disability and the meaning and/or experience of sex and gender, transgender, and intersex

-Disability and orientation/ reorientation/ disorientation of
understandings of time and space

-Disability, feminist materialism, and “agential realism”

-Disability and critical analyses of science, scientific knowledge, nature, and human nature

-Feminist/queer/crip perspectives on the Occupy Movement and other global movements for economic, environmental, social, and political justice

-The meaning of art and aesthetic concepts through the lens of disability

-Rethinking the canon of western philosophy through the lens of feminist disability studies

Deadline for submission: August 15, 2013.

Papers should be no more than 8000 words, inclusive of notes and bibliography, prepared for anonymous review, and accompanied by an abstract of no more than 200 words. For details please see Hypatia's submission guidelines http://depts.washington.edu/hypatia/submission_guidelines.html

Please submit your paper to manuscript central (Wiley-Blackwell) website:
https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/hypa.

When you submit, make sure to select “Disability” as your manuscript type, and also send an email to the guest editor, Kim Q. Hall: hallki@appstate.edu, indicating the title of the paper you have submitted.

Kim Q. Hall
Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy and Religion
Appalachian State University
114 Greer Hall
Boone, NC 28608
office: (828) 262-6817
fax: (828) 262-6619

Devva Kasnitz, PhD

Research Associate, Association of Higher Education and Disability,
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President, Society for Disability Studies, http://www.disstudies.org/
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Anthropology
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Committee on Minority Issues in Anthropology, American Anthropological
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