APA Division 18 | Public Service Psychology
“Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Holistic Mental Health Care”
Deadline: August 31, 2016
The editorial staff of Division 18’s APA journal Psychological Services would like to invite you to submit articles for a special issue on Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Holistic Mental Health Care that will be edited by Michi Fu, Ph.D., and guest editor Femina P. Varghese, Ph.D.
There is an increased interest in holistic care for mental health. The growing diversity of the United States and the reality of globalization has allowed for complementary and alternative approaches to gain attention from scientists and practitioners. Therefore, considering this interest, this special issue will feature scholarly articles that examine such approaches. Considering the nature of the journal, papers should be focused on populations or settings in organized care such as community mental health settings, correctional settings, police departments, jails, prisons, courts, probation departments, Indian Health Service, community health centers, child guidance clinics, schools, special services departments, rehab units, university clinics, training hospitals, and local government agencies. Psychological Services is devoted to empirical articles on the delivery of psychological services in organized care settings. Priority is given to manuscripts with empirical data on process, outcome, and effectiveness, but well developed manuscripts on conceptual and policy issues will be considered. The primary focus for this special issue is “holistic care” – holistic approaches of mental health care. This special section will be devoted to all aspects of holistic care, including, but not limited to:
- Culture based approaches
- Evidence based approaches
- Mindfulness
- Acupuncture
- Yoga
- Ayurvedic
- Traditional healing practices
- Nutritional and herbal approaches
- Meditation
- Physical care (e.g., exercise)
- Indigenous approaches
- Mind-body medicine
- Religious and spiritual approaches
- Ecological treatments
In sum, we welcome manuscripts related to a variety of topics related to holistic care for mental health, including empirical, conceptual, and theoretical papers focused on service provision.
The deadline for receipt of papers for this special section is August 31, 2016. Please follow the Instructions to Authors information located on the Psychological Services website at: http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/ser . Manuscripts must be submitted electronically through the Manuscript Submission Web Portal as described on the journal’s website, here:
http://www.editorialmanager.com/svs/
Please specify in your cover letter that the submission is intended for the special section onComplementary and Alternative Medicine for Holistic Mental Health Care and address your letter to Dr. Michi Fu.
All papers submitted will be initially screened by the editorial board, if appropriate will be sent out for blind peer review. For further questions related to this special section, please contact Dr. Michi Fu at drmichifu@gmail.com or Dr. Femina P. Varghese at fvarghese@uca.edu.