About this journal

Evidence-Based Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health (EPCAMH) is a peer-reviewed journal publishing clinically relevant work on a broad range of topics.

EPCAMH is the official clinical journal of the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (SCCAP).

The journal’s primary mission is dissemination of evidence-based practices to a wide range of mental health practitioners, and to increase knowledge about the expertise, scope, diversity, and practice of clinical child and adolescent psychologists.

EPCAMH welcomes submissions on a number of topics, including, but not limited to:

• Quality improvement studies that enhance care delivery
• Clinical case series that provide novel insights into care provision
• Reviews of current issues that impact youth mental health
• Ethical conundrums
• Training and professional practice issues
• Systems-of-care issues
• Advances in assessment
• Dissemination and implementation of evidence-based practices
• Mini-practice manuals
• Historical perspectives

The journal accepts: Regular Articles, Brief Reports, Commentaries, and Letters to the Editor.

EPCAMH follows a double anonymized peer review policy.

Manuscripts should be prepared according to the guidelines in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th edition). as well as inclusive language guidelines. ¹ At the time of submission to, or throughout the review process at EPCAMH, manuscripts must not be under review or consideration at another journal. Typing instructions, including format, organization, and the preparation of figures, tables, and references appear in the Manual.

Empirical manuscripts should conform to the criteria listed in Table 1 of the 2008 APA Publications and Communications Board Working Group on Journal Article Reporting Standards (published in American Psychologist). Reports of randomized clinical trials must conform to CONSORT reporting standards, including the submission of a flow diagram and checklist. Nonrandomized clinical trials must conform to TREND criteria. Meta-analyses should conform to MARS standards (see Table 4 in 2008 American Psychologist article).

Quality improvement articles should follow SQUIRE guidelines, as articulated in this journal’s 2019 article.

Regular Articles may not exceed 35 pages, including references, footnotes, sample clinical dialogue, figures, and tables. Supplemental materials may include tables, figures, and appendix material and do not count against the page limit. Brief Reports may not exceed 4,500 words for text and references. These limits do not include the title page, abstract, author note, footnotes, tables, and figures. Manuscripts exceeding these page limits or not prepared according to Manual guidelines will be returned to authors without review . Commentaries are by editor invitation and written by key clinical opinion leaders within the broad field of child and adolescent mental health. These articles provide a brief summary of important issues warranting attention by the practice community and pertinent to clinical child and adolescent psychology. Letters to the Editor may be in response to regular articles, brief reports, or commentaries, or raise issues of concern to the journal’s audience. They may not exceed 750 words, inclusive of 5 or fewer references and one table or figure. All submissions undergo peer review.

All Regular Articles, Brief Reports, and Commentaries must include a title of 15 words or less. Regular Articles and Brief Reports require an abstract of up to 250 words, presented in paragraph form. Avoid abbreviations, diagrams, and reference to the text in the abstract. A list of up to five keywords that describe central themes of the manuscript should be included below the abstract on page 2.

¹ American Psychological Association. (2021). Inclusive Language Guide (apa.org)

EDITOR
Mary A. Fristad, Ph.D, ABPP, Director of Academic Affairs and Research Development, Emerita Professor - Nationwide Children’s Hospital, The Ohio State University, US

ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Andres Viana, PhD, ABPP, Professor - Texas A&M Health, US
Bradley White, Ph.D, Associate Professor - University of Alabama, US

MANAGING EDITOR
Barbara A. Myers, CCRP - Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, US

CONSULTING EDITORS
Anne Marie Albano, Ph.D, Professor of Medical Psychology (in Psychiatry), Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Services, US
Brian Allen, Ph.D, Associate Professor, Penn State College of Medicine, US
Joan Asarnow, Ph.D, Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine, Jane and Terry Semel Institute of Neuroscience and Behavior, US
Jeffrey E. Barnett, Ph.D, Professor, Loyola University, Maryland, US
Shannon Bennett, Ph.D, Assistant Professor, Weill Cornell Medicine, US
Sharon Berry, Ph.D, Psychologist, Professional Staff, Children's Minnesota, US
Samantha Busa, Ph.D, Clinical Associate Professor, NYU Child Study Center, US
David Castro-Blanco, Ph.D, Associate Professor, Medaille College, US
Timothy A. Cavell, Ph.D, Professor, University of Arkansas, US
Lisa Clefberg, Ph.D., Private Practice Psychologist, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Jennifer Cruz, Ph.D, Associate Clinical Professor of Medical Psychology (in Psychiatry), New York Presbyterian/Columbia University, US
Jill Ehrenreich-May, Ph.D, Associate Professor and Director, Child and Adolescent Mood and Anxiety Treatment Program - Miami University, US
Benjamin Fields, Ph.D, Clinical Assistant Professor, Nationwide Children's Hospital, US
Greta Francis, Ph.D, Associate Professor, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, US
Robert D. Friedberg, Ph.D, Professor, CSTAY at Palo Alto University, US
Richard Gallagher, Ph.D, Associate Professor, NYU School of Medicine, US
Luis Joaquin Garcia-Lopez, Ph.D, Professor, University of Jaen, Spain
Elizabeth Gosch, Ph.D, Professor, Director of Continuing Education, School of Professional and Applied Psychology, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, US
Lyn R. Greenberg, Ph.D, Independent Practitioner of Family Forensic Psychology, US
Omar G. Gudiño, Ph.D, Senior Director, San Francisco Bay Area Clinic, Child Mind Institute, US
John D. Guerry, Ph.D, Clinical Psychologist, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia/Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, US
Jennifer L. Hughes, Ph.D, Associate Professor, Nationwide Children's Hospital, US
Yo Jackson, Ph.D, Professor, Penn State University, US
Amanda Jensen-Doss, Ph.D, Professor, University of Miami, US
Maryam Jernigan-Noesi, Ph.D, Professor, Agnes Scott College, US
James Keyes, Ph.D., Private Practice Psychologist and Clinical Assistant Professor, Washington State University College of Medicine, US
Muniya S. Khanna, Ph.D, Clinical Psychologist, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, US
Hyo-Won Kim, Ph.D, Associate Professor, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Republic of Korea
Rajeev Krishna, Ph.D, Clinical Associate Professor, Nationwide Children's Hospital, The Ohio State University, US
Jarrod M. Leffler, Ph.D, Associate Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University, US
Matthew D. Lerner, Ph.D, Associate Professor, Drexel University, US
Adam B. Lewin, Ph.D, Professor, University of South Florida, US
Heather MacPherson, Ph.D, Assistant Professor, William James College, US
Glenn A. Melvin, Ph.D, Associate Professor, Deakin University, Australia
Meghan Miller, Ph.D, Associate Professor, University of California, Davis MIND Institute, US
Shane G. Owens, Ph.D, Assistant Director, Farmingdale State College - Campus Mental Health, US
Kathleen Pajer, MD Professor, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Guillermo Perez Algorta, Ph.D, Senior Lecturer, Lancaster University, US
Tara S. Peris, Ph.D, Professor, University of California Los Angeles, US
Jonathan Perle, Ph.D, Associate Professor, Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, West Virginia School of Medicine, US
John Piacentini, Ph.D, Professor, UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, US
Sandra Pimentel, Ph.D, Associate Professor, Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, US
Karin L. Price, Ph.D, Chief of Psychology, Texas Children's Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine, US
Julie L. Ryan, Ph.D, Associate Professor, William James College, US
Cara Settipani, Ph.D., Private Practice Psychologist, East Bay Anxiety and OCD Center, US
Leslie A. Sim, Ph.D, Psychologist, Mayo Clinic, US
Terry Stancin, Ph.D, Professor, MetroHealth Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University, US
Erlanger A. Turner, Ph.D, Associate Professor, Pepperdine University, US
Anna R. Van Meter, Ph.D, Associate Professor, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research; Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, US
Sarah Vigerland, Ph.D, Clinical Psychologist, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Susan W. White, Ph.D, Professor, University of Alabama, US
Andrea S. Young, Ph.D, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, US

The Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (SCCAP) is Division 53 of the American Psychological Association. SCCAP is committed to improve the mental health and development of children, adolescents, and families, and promote diversity, equity, and inclusion.

SCCAP provides a forum for clinicians, researchers, educators, and students.

Membership benefits include access to the research journals published by the society. Membership information including fees, benefits and how to join can be found on the society website.

The Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology publishes two journals:

  Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology

Evidence-Based Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health .

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