期刊名称：INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
General Information
The International Journal of Clinical Health Psychology is a quarterly publication produced by the Asociación Española de Psicología Conductual since 2001 with the collaboration of the Asociación Colombiana para el Avance de las Ciencias del Comportamiento (ABA-Colombia).
Our Journal publishes experimental, theoretical and applied articles that contribute to the advancement in any of the areas of clinical and health psychology. Manuscripts are published in English and Spanish.
Instructions to Authors
- International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology publishes manuscripts with a basic and applied emphasis, involving both theoretical and experimental areas which contribute to advances in any Clinical and Health Psychology field. It publishes Original Articles (Investigations), Review Articles, Brief Reports, Cases Reports, and Book Reviews.
- The manuscripts submitted to International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology should be unedited, should not be published previously, and should not be considered for publication elsewhere. Once the article has been submitted, and upon its possible publication, the authors are obligated to renounce their rights to reuse the material to the International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology .
- Original Articles and Review Articles should not exceed 30 pages typewritten on one side (25-30 lines per page), including figures, tables, and illustrations, Brief Reports and Cases Reports should not exceed 15 pages, and Book Reviews a maximum of 5 pages. The manuscripts can be written in Spanish, English or Portuguese. The first page of the manuscript should include the title in both Spanish (or Portuguese) and English, the corresponding author(s) complete name(s), institutional affiliation, and a complete mailing address (including an E-mail address) to send any correspondence and/or offprint requests and possible acknowledgements. The second page should include the title, an abstract (150-200 words) and the keywords (4-5), in both Spanish (or Portuguese) and English. The keywords should include the type of research methodology used following the classification proposed by Montero and Leon (2005): theoretical study, observational descriptive study, survey descriptive study, experiment, quasi experiment, ex post facto study, single case experimental study, instrumental study, and qualitative study [Montero, I. and León, O.G. (2007). A guide for naming research studies in Psychology. International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, 7, 847-862] (this article is available at http://www.aepc.es/ijchp/Montero07_en.pdf). The third page should begin with the manuscript title and be followed by the introduction. The figures and tables should each appear on a separate page and should be numbered consecutively at the end of the text, indicating their approximate location in the text.
- Original Articles should use the following schema: introduction, method (sample, instruments, procedure, results, discussion/conclusions, and references. For more information consult the Ramos-Alvarez, Valdés-Conroy, and Catena (2006) [Ramos-Alvarez, M.M., Valdés-Conroy, B., and Catena, A. (2006). Criteria of the peer-review process for publication of experimental and quasiexperimental research in Psychology. International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, 6, 773-787] (this article is available at: http://www.aepc.es/ijchp/articulos_pdf/ijchp-203.pdf).
The articles describing the instrumental studies should follow the procedure established by Carretero-Dios and Pérez (2007): study justification, conceptual and theoretical framework related to construct to be assessed, items construction and item theoretical assessment, item analysis, internal structure study, reliability, and studies to obtain external evidences of validity [Carretero-Dios, H. y Pérez, C. (2007). Standards for the development and the review of instrumental studies: Considerations about test selection in psychological research. International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, 7, 863-882] (this article is available at http://www.aepc.es/ijchp/Carretero07_en.pdf).
Meta-analytic review articles should follow the schema proposed by Botella y Gambara (2006) [Botella, J. y Gambara, H. (2006). Doing and reporting a meta-analysis. International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, 6, 425-440] (this article is available at http://www.aepc.es/ijchp/articulos_pdf/ijchp-185.pdf).
Review articles and Brief Reports should follow a coherent format.
Cases reports should follow the format provided by Buela-Casal and Sierra (2002): abstract, patient identification, analysis of the motive of the consultation, history of the problem, analysis and description of the problem behavior, setting of treatment goals, study of the therapeutic objectives, selection of most adequate treatments, selection and application of the evaluative techniques and analysis of the results obtained in this phase, treatment application, evaluation of the treatment efficacy and/or effectiveness, follow-up, and observations [Buela-Casal, G. and Sierra, J.C. (2002). Normas para la redacción de casos clínicos. Revista Internacional de Psicología Clínica y de la Salud/International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, 2, 525-532] (this article is available at: http://www.aepc.es/ijchp/articulos_pdf/ijchp-55.pdf).
Book Reviews should use the following structure: topic, source of the publication, author(s), content structure, who the book is directed to, and personal judgment.
- The manuscript’s main text should follow the publication guidelines of the American Psychological Association (APA) provided in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed.) (2001). References within the text include the author’s name and the year of publication, appearing both within parenthesis. When the author’s name forms part of the text, only the year of publication appears within parenthesis. Two or more continuous references should be arranged alphabetically by authors?names. When there are more than two or less than six authors, all authors should be listed in the first citation. In subsequent citations, the name of the first author should be followed by "et al.". For six or more authors, the first author should always appear, followed by "et al.". If there are more than one article for the same author(s) during the same year, each year should be followed by the letters a, b, c, ...
- The list of references should appear in alphabetical order and should include all the cited publications in the text, including all the authors. This list should have the following format:
- Books: Author (last name followed by a comma and the initials followed each by a period; various authors are separated by a comma and a comma is placed before the “and"; year (within parenthesis) followed by a period; full title in cursive followed by a period; city and edition followed by a colon; editorial.
- Chapter of a book: Author(s) of the chapter; year; title of the chapter; “In" name of the compilers of the book, using the author’s initials and last name; the abbreviation “Ed."s) within parenthesis; title of the book in cursive; first and last page of chapter within parenthesis, preceded by the abbreviation “pp." city where published followed by a colon; editorial.
- Journals: Author(s); year; title of the article followed by a period; the journal’s complete name in cursive and followed by a comma; volume number (without appearing the expression “volume?or “vol." followed by a comma; first and last page of the article.
- In the case of any existing doubt(s), consult the APA publication manual (2001).
- The electronic version of the manuscript (in Word) and the print version (three copies) of the manuscript should be submitted to:
Dr. Juan Carlos Sierra
Facultad de Psicología. Universidad de Granada. 18071 Granada (SPAIN)
E-Mail: jcsierra@ugr.es
- International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology will notify the author(s) when the manuscript is received and inform them whether the paper is accepted within 120 days. Two members of the Editorial Board (peer reviewers), with special competence in the represented area, will revise each submitted manuscript and will send a report to the Journal suggesting or denying the manuscript’s publication. If an article written in Castilian or Portuguese is accepted an English version will be required and included on the website of the journal. A copy of the article in the PDF Adobe format as well as a copy of the journal will be sent to the first author Some of the associated production cost will be paid by the authors.
- The opinions and contents of the manuscript published in the International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology are under exclusive responsibility of the author(s) and therefore they will be responsible for obtaining copyright permission for reproducing the material published in other publications.
Editorial Board
Editorial Assistants:
Izabela Zych
Pablo Santos
Raúl Quevedo
Editorial Board
- Thomas M. Achenbach. University of Vermont (USA).
- Rafael Aleixandre. Universidad de Valencia (España).
- Leandro S. Almeida. Universidade do Minho (Portugal).
- Rubén Ardila. Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Colombia).
- Arturo Bados. Universidad de Barcelona (España).
- Albert Bandura. Stanford University (USA).
- Wayne Bardwell. University of California (USA).
- Amparo Belloch. Universidad de Valencia (España).
- Guillermo Bernal. Universidad de Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico).
- Juan Manuel Bethencourt. Universidad de La Laguna (España).
- Larry E. Beutler. University of California (USA).
- Alfonso Blanco Picabia. Universidad de Sevilla (España).
- Xavier Bornas. Universidad de las Islas Baleares (España).
- Cristina Botella. Universidad Jaume I (España).
- John T. Cacioppo. University of Chicago (USA).
- Adolfo J. Cangas. Universidad de Almería (España).
- Antonio Cano-Vindel. Universidad Complutense (España).
- C. Robert Cloninger. Washington University (USA).
- Paz de Corral. Universidad del País Vasco (España).
- Ralph DiClemente. Emory University (USA).
- Frank Donker. Maxima Medical Centre (The Netherlands).
- Enrique Echeburúa. Universidad del País Vasco (España).
- Paul Emmelkamp. University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands).
- Jean Endicott. Columbia University (USA).
- Christopher Ferguson. Texas A&M International University (USA).
- Eugénia Fernandes. Universidade do Minho (Portugal).
- Luis Fernández Ríos. Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (España).
- Héctor M. Fernández-Alvarez. Fundación Aigl?(Argentina).
- Maria Joao Forjaz. Instituto de Salud Carlos III (España).
- Esteve Freixa i Baqu? Universit?de Picardie (Francia).
- Eduardo García Cueto. Universidad de Oviedo (España).
- Jesús Gil Roales-Nieto. Universidad de Almería (España).
- Carlos Grilo. Yale University (USA).
- Olga Gutiérrrez. Universidad de Granada (España).
- Stephen N. Haynes. University of Hawaii (USA).
- Robert M.A. Hirschfeld. National Institute on Aging, NIH, DHHS (USA).
- María Izal. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (España).
- Anthony Francis Jorm. University of Melbourne (Australia).
- Milton Kramer. Maimonides Medical Center (USA).
- Ziad Kronfol. Weill Cornell Medical College (Qatar) .
- Annette M. La Greca. University of Miami (USA).
- Francisco Labrador. Universidad Complutense (España).
- Serafín Lemos. Universidad de Oviedo (España).
- Orfelio G. León. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (España).
- Peter M. Lewinsohn. Oregon Research Institute (USA).
- Carmen Luciano. Universidad de Almería (España).
- Michael Maes. MCARE4U Outpatient Clinics (Belgium).
- Antonio Maldonado. Universidad de Granada (España).
- Karen A. Matthews. University of Pittsburgh (USA).
- Xavier Méndez. Universidad de Murcia (España).
- Juan Jos?Miguel Tobal. Universidad Complutense de Madrid (España).
- Terrie E. Moffitt. Institute of Psychiatry (England).
- Ignacio Montero. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (España).
- Luis Montesinos. Montclair State University (USA).
- Ignacio Montorio. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (España).
- Rudolf H. Moos. Stanford University (USA).
- Kim T. Mueser. Dartmouth Medical School (USA).
- Jos?Muñiz. Universidad de Oviedo (España).
- Jos?Francisco Navarro. Universidad de Málaga (España).
- Jos?Olivares. Universidad de Murcia (España).
- Thomas H. Ollendick. Virginia Tech (USA).
- Generós Ortet. Universidad Jaume I (España).
- Francesc Palmero. Universidad Jaume I (España).
- Gordon Parker. University of New South Wales (Australia).
- Vicente Pelechano. Universidad de La Laguna (España).
- Wenceslao Peñate. Universidad de La Laguna (España).
- Marino Pérez. Universidad de Oviedo (España).
- Juan Preciado. Hostos Community College (USA).
- Abilio Reig. Universidad de Alicante (España).
- Francisco Revuelta. Universidad de Huelva (España).
- Andrés de los Reyes. Yale University (USA).
- Jesús A. Salas. Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (USA).
- Juan Jos?Sánchez-Sosa. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (México).
- Bonifacio Sandín. UNED (España).
- Francisco Santolaya. Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos (España).
- Mateu Servera. Universidad de las Islas Baleares (España).
- David Teplin. Oak Ridges Medical Centre (Canada).
- Humberto M. Trujillo. Universidad de Granada (España).
- Carmelo Vázquez. Universidad Complutense (España).
- Pablo Vera-Villarroel. Universidad de Santiago de Chile (Chile).
- Miguel Angel Verdugo. Universidad de Salamanca (España).
- Ricardo Werner. Nêmeton. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (Brasil).
- Hans-Ulrich Wittchen. Freie Universitaet Berlin (Germany).
- Mark Zimmerman. Rhode Island Hospital (USA).
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