Journal scope statement

Couple and Family unit Psychology: Research and Practice ® (CFP) is a scholarly journal publishing peer-reviewed papers representing the science and practice of couple and family unit psychology. CFP is the official publication of APA Partition 43 (Society for Couple and Family Psychology) and is intended to be a forum for scholarly dialogue regarding the most important emerging issues in the field, a primary outlet for research particularly as it impacts practice and for papers regarding didactics, public policy, and the identity of the profession of couple and family psychology.

As the official periodical for the Guild, CFP will provide a home for the members of the division and those in other fields interested in the most cutting edge issues in couple and family psychology. Unlike other journals in the field, CFP is focused specifically on couple and family psychology every bit a specialty practice, unique scientific domain, and critical element of psychological knowledge.

CFP will seek and publish scholarly manuscripts that make a contribution to the knowledge base of operations of couple and family psychology specifically, and the scientific discipline and practice of working with individuals, couples, and families.

The journal is designed in format and in vision with the following goals:

  • provide a machinery to promote the integration of the science and do of couple and family psychology;
  • make a strong contribution to the scholarship of couple and family psychology;
  • promote the interdisciplinary nature of couple and family unit psychology;
  • enhance the international focus on couple and family unit psychology;
  • promote pedagogy and training in couple and family psychology; and
  • promote the issues of social justice and multicultural competence every bit they relate to couple and family psychology.

Journal diverseness statement

As a specialty, Couple and Family Psychology is founded on the principles of systems theory and is committed to embedding diversity in all areas of research, practice, and grooming. CFP implements the revised APA multicultural guidelines, which emphasize the integration of an ecological arroyo to diversity (APA, 2017). CFP too includes a deep understanding that diversity extends well beyond race and ethnicity, including but not limited to variables such as gender, power status, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, religion, linguistic communication, and acculturation levels, and acknowledging the impact that the intersectionality of each of these aspects has on couples and families.

At present more than e'er, it is vital for couple and family psychologists to non only inform themselves merely to besides inform others about ethnic and cultural differences and similarities between and within individuals of all backgrounds. Given the growing diverseness among couples and families and the quickly changing ecology systems impacting individuals, it is imperative that couple and family psychologists be committed to cultural sensitivity and cultural humility. As systemically-focused professional psychologists, we are committed to continually aspiring to cultural competence. This includes advancing our clinical and empirical knowledge well-nigh diverse couples and families and their important contexts, increasing our awareness and confronting structural oppression and the biases within our profession and ourselves, and developing the skills necessary to work with couples and families of all backgrounds and identities.

APA regularly publishes task strength reports and guidelines regarding many areas of diversity. Information technology is expected that Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice authors, reviewers, and editors stay abreast of and attach to the electric current guidelines and methods of demonstrating cultural competence and humility.

Journal highlights

Submission Guidelines

Prior to submission, please carefully read and follow the submission guidelines detailed below. Manuscripts that do not adapt to the submission guidelines may be returned without review.

Submission

To submit to the editorial office of Michelle D. Sherman, delight submit manuscripts electronically through the Manuscript Submission Portal in Microsoft Word format (.physician) or LaTex (.tex) as a null file with an accompanied Portable Document Format (.pdf) of the manuscript file.

Prepare manuscripts according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association using the 7th edition. Manuscripts may exist copyedited for bias-free language (run across Chapter 5 of the Publication Manual). APA Way and Grammar Guidelines for the seventhursday edition are available.

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Michelle D. Sherman, editor
Lorenz Clinic of Family Psychology
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In improver to addresses and phone numbers, please supply email addresses for use by the editorial function and later by the product function.

Manuscripts

We seek manuscripts that span the broad universe of couple and family psychology, including only not express to:

  • theory
  • assessment
  • interventions
  • clinical case studies (run into below)
  • treatment processes (eastward.thou., therapeutic relationship)
  • specialty competencies
  • ideals
  • diversity issues in working with couples and families

Clinical Implications Section: All manuscripts must conclude with an "implications and applications" section. Although this tin can exist brief (2-3 paragraphs), it is one of the most of import sections. Information technology should provide physical and usable data that can exist applied in everyday clinical exercise or in training programs.

We welcome interdisciplinary collaboration likewise as manuscripts describing the awarding of couple and family psychology in various settings (due east.g., integrated behavioral wellness in chief intendance, incarceration and reentry, military/veteran settings).

Treatment-focused articles may focus on particular clinical problem domains from a systemic perspective (e.m., substance abuse, depression, eating disorders, relationship issues, sexuality).

Clinical case studies involve a detailed analysis of the therapy conducted with a couple or family unit that volition exist instructive, may be exemplary or cautionary, and stresses factors contributing to either success or failure of the treatment. Because evidence-based clinical case studies can be difficult to do well, Evidence-Based Example Report Guidelines are provided.

Research-focused articles may written report the findings of studies that use a variety of research methods and data, both qualitative and quantitative. CFP-RP welcomes articles with carefully selected research methods that are best fitted to answer the research questions. Research manufactures should not exceed a full of 30 pages, all inclusive.

Brief reports are encouraged for innovative work that may be premature for publication every bit a full inquiry report because of pocket-sized sample size, novel methodologies, etc. Cursory reports too are an appropriate format for airplane pilot studies, replications, and clinical case studies. Authors of brief reports should bespeak in the cover letter that the full report is non under consideration for publication elsewhere. Brief reports should be designated as such and should not exceed a total of twenty pages, all inclusive. References should not exceed viii pages.

The editor welcomes inquiries regarding the suitability of ideas for regular articles.

Manuscript preparation

Double-space all copy. Other formatting instructions, as well equally instructions on preparing tables, figures, references, metrics, and abstracts, appear in the Manual. Additional guidance on APA Way is available on the APA Style website.

If your manuscript was mask reviewed, please ensure that the final version for production includes a byline and total author note for typesetting.

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Display equations

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Calculator code

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In online supplemental material

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In the text of the article

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Tables

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Abstract and keywords

All manuscripts must include an abstract containing a maximum of 250 words typed on a split page. After the abstract, delight supply upwards to five keywords or brief phrases.

References

List references in alphabetical order. Each listed reference should exist cited in text, and each text citation should be listed in the references section.

Examples of basic reference formats:

Journal commodity

McCauley, S. M., & Christiansen, M. H. (2019). Language learning equally language use: A cross-linguistic model of child language development. Psychological Review, 126(1), 1–51. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000126

Authored book

Brown, L. Due south. (2018). Feminist therapy (second ed.). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/ten.1037/0000092-000

Chapter in an edited book

Balsam, K. F., Martell, C. R., Jones. Thousand. P., & Safren, S. A. (2019). Affirmative cognitive behavior therapy with sexual and gender minority people. In Grand. Y. Iwamasa & P. A. Hays (Eds.), Culturally responsive cognitive behavior therapy: Practice and supervision (2nd ed., pp. 287–314). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000119-012

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For authors who prefer their figures to be published in color both in print and online, original colour figures can be printed in colour at the editor'southward and publisher'southward discretion provided the author agrees to pay:

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Editorial Lath

Editor

Michelle D. Sherman, PhD ABPP
Lorenz Clinic of Family Psychology, The states

Associate editor

Hayley C. Fivecoat, PhD
The Family unit Institute at Northwestern University, United States

Consulting editors

Gonzalo Bacigalupe, EdD, MPH
University of Massachusetts Boston, Us

Christina Balderrama-Durbin, PhD
Binghamton University–SUNY, Us

Linda Berg-Cross, PhD
Howard Academy, Us

Rebecca K. Blais, PhD
Arizona State Academy, Usa

James H. Bray, PhD
The University of Texas at San Antonio, United states

Douglas C. Breunlin, MSSA, LMFT, LCSW
Northwestern Academy, United states of america

Molly Burrets, PhD, ABPP
California School of Professional Psychology and Alliant International University, Los Angeles, United States

Marianne P. Celano, PhD, ABPP
Emory University, United States

Anthony L. Chambers, PhD, ABPP
The Family Constitute at Northwestern University, United States

Caroline Clauss-Ehlers, PhD
Rutgers University, United States

Frank Datillo, PhD
Harvard Medical Schoolhouse, United states of america

Robert E. Emery, PhD
University of Virginia, U.s.a.

Mona Fishbane, PhD
Chicago Center for Family Wellness, United States

Anne K. Fishel, PhD
Harvard Medical Schoolhouse at Massachusetts General Hospital, United States

Adam Fisher, PhD, ABPP
Brigham Immature Academy, United States

Shirley Glynn, PhD
Semel Institute of Neuroscience and Human being Behavior, UCLA, United States

Kristina Coop Gordon, PhD
Academy of Tennessee at Knoxville, United States

Florence W. Kaslow, PhD
Kaslow Associates, United states of america

Shalonda Kelly, PhD
Rutgers University, United States

Jessica Larsen, PhD
Private Practice, United States

Erika Lawrence, PhD, LCP
Family Institute, United States

Howard A. Liddle, EdD, ABPP
University of Miami Schoolhouse of Medicine, United States

Jeffrey J. Magnavita, PhD
Glastonbury Psychological Associates, PC, U.s.a.

Howard Markman, PhD
University of Denver, United States

Susan H. McDaniel, PhD, ABPP
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, United states

Terence Patterson, EdD
University of San Francisco, United States

Heather M. Pederson, PhD, ABPP
Private Practice, The states

Nicole Pukay-Martin, PhD
Trauma Recovery Center, Cincinnati VAMC (Ft. Thomas Partition), United States

Kelley Quirk, PhD
Colorado State Academy, Us

Susan Jane Regas, PhD
California School of Professional Psychology, United States

Samuel Rennebohm, PhD
Swedish Family Medicine Residency, The states

Galena M. Rhoades, PhD
University of Denver, United states of america

Shelley A. Riggs, PhD
Sam Houston Country University, United States

Fred Sautter, PhD
Private Exercise

Steven L. Sayers, PhD
Corporal Michael Crescenz VA Medical Middle and Perelman Schoolhouse of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, United States

Thomas L. Sexton, PhD
Indiana University, United States

Tamara Sher, PhD
Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, U.s.

Robert Welsh, PhD, ABPP
Azusa Pacific University, United States

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