Overview
Child & Youth Care Forum welcomes submissions focused on the developmental, clinical, social, contextual, cognitive, and biological processes that impact children and youth (aged 0 to 18) as well as families.
- Interested in empirical articles and theoretical reviews with implications for child and adolescent mental health, psychosocial development, assessment, interventions, and services broadly defined (e.g., papers may address issues of child and adolescent typical and/or atypical development through effective youth care assessment and intervention practices).
- Papers may address strategies for helping youth overcome difficulties (e.g., mental health problems) or adversity (e.g., traumatic stress, community violence) as well as strategies to help all children actualize their potential (e.g., positive psychology goals).
- Assessment papers that advance knowledge as well as methodological papers with implications for child and youth research and care are also encouraged.
- Authors are researchers, practitioners, and clinicians across the interrelated disciplines of child psychology, early childhood, education, medical anthropology, pediatrics, pediatric psychology, psychiatry, public policy, school/educational psychology, social work, and sociology as well as government agencies and corporate and nonprofit organizations that seek to advance current knowledge and practice.
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- Editor-in-Chief
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- Carl F. Weems
- Impact factor
- 1.8 (2022)
- 5 year impact factor
- 2.1 (2022)
- Submission to first decision (median)
- 5 days
- Downloads
- 344,463 (2023)
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Call for Papers: Reducing Poverty and Its Consequences
Submission Deadline: Jul. 1, 2023
As one of the most enduring and complex social problems in the world, poverty, and its eradication, must be addressed through a variety of research and practice domains including social, behavioral, and public health perspectives. Our journal is calling for submissions to a multi-journal collection exploring this significant global issue.
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Journal information
- Electronic ISSN
- 1573-3319
- Print ISSN
- 1053-1890
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