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Editor: Gordon C. Nagayama Hall, PhD
ISSN: 1099-9809
Published Quarterly, beginning in January
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(Formerly Cultural Diversity and Mental Health)
Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology is the official journal of APA Division 45.
Please consult APA's Instructions for All Authors for information regarding
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Gordon C. Nagayama Hall
Department of Psychology
1227 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1227
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Editor's Office.
Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology seeks to publish theoretical, conceptual, research, and case study articles that promote the development of knowledge and understanding, application of psychological principles, and scholarly analysis of sociopolitical forces affecting racial and ethnic minorities.
Especially welcome are articles that
- advance the contributions of psychology in the understanding of issues related to people of color through research, including the development of appropriate research paradigms;
- promote the education and training of psychologists in matters regarding people of color, including the special issues relevant to the delivery of services to minority populations; and
- advance the accumulation of knowledge related to diversity and multiculturalism, with particular attention to the wider society and the formation of public policy.
Research reports may include quantitative or qualitative research and ethnographic investigations. They should contain Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, and Conclusion sections conforming to standard scientific reporting style (where appropriate, Results and Discussion may be combined).
Integrative reviews or research syntheses seek to summarize past research by drawing overall conclusions from many separate investigations that address related or identical hypotheses. Integrative reviews and research syntheses should have a strong conceptual or theoretical framework and should not simply be a compendium of past research.
A research synthesis typically presents the authors' assessments of
- the state of knowledge concerning the relations of interest,
- critical assessments of the strengths and weaknesses in past research, and
- important issues that research has left unresolved, thereby directing future research so it can yield a maximum amount of new information.
Integrative research reviews that develop connections between areas of research are particularly valuable. Manuscripts dealing with topics at the interface of psychology and society are welcome, as are evaluations of applied psychological therapies, programs, and interventions.
Case reports are intended to provide clinicians with an understanding of the effects of cultural and environmental variables on individual and group behavior. Case studies should focus on the process and outcome of cross-cultural interventions.
Case reports should be limited to 10 manuscript pages or less, and the text should be divided into the following sections: Presenting Problem/Client Description, Case Formulation, Course of Treatment, Treatment Outcome, and Discussion. Clients should be referred to only by a fictitious (and nonsimilar) first name. All other client identifying data, including but not limited to the client's age, occupation, and place of residence, must be disguised (see editorial policy below).
Final manuscripts should be double-spaced with a 1" margin on all sides. Number all pages of the manuscript sequentially.
Manuscripts should contain each of the following elements in sequence:
- title page
- abstract
- text
- references
- acknowledgments
- tables
- figure legends
- figures
Start each element on a new page.
The journal will not be responsible for loss of manuscripts at any time.
Because Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology uses an anonymous peer-review process, authors' names and affiliations should appear only on the title page of the manuscript.
Manuscripts are limited to 30 pages, including references, tables, and figures.
When providing racial or ethnic designations, please use initial capital letters. Webster's New World Dictionary of American English, 3rd College Edition, is the accepted source for spelling. Define unusual abbreviations at the first mention in the text.
The text should be written in a uniform style, and its contents as submitted for consideration should be deemed by the author to be final and suitable for publication.
The title page should contain the complete title of the manuscript, names and affiliations of all authors, institution(s) at which the work was performed, and name, address, telephone and telefax numbers of the author responsible for correspondence.
Authors should also provide a short title of not more than 45 characters (including spaces), and 5 to 10 key words, that will highlight the subject matter of the article.
The Method section of each empirical report must contain a detailed description of the study participants, including (but not limited to) the following:
- age
- gender
- ethnicity
- SES
- clinical diagnoses and comorbidities (as appropriate)
- any other relevant demographics
In the Discussion section of the manuscript, authors should discuss the diversity of their study samples and the generalizability of their findings.
The Method section also must include a statement describing how informed consent was obtained from the participants (or their parents/guardians) and indicate that the study was conducted in compliance with an appropriate Internal Review Board.
The Method section of empirical reports must contain a sufficiently detailed description of the measures used so that the reader understands the item content, scoring procedures, and total scores or subscales. Evidence of reliability and validity with similar populations should be provided.
We now require that authors report means and standard deviations for all continuous study variables and the effect sizes for the primary study findings. Note that the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA, 2001, pp. 25–26) emphasizes the importance of reporting effect sizes in addition to the usual tests of statistical significance.
Effect sizes, or similar statistics such as "goodness-of-fit" indicators for structural equation modeling, can be generated by most statistical packages that are used in the behavioral sciences. If effect sizes are not available for a particular test, then authors should convey this in their cover letter at the time of submission.
In the text, references should be cited by the name and date system. Both names are cited for a work with two authors. When a work has fewer than six authors, cite all names the first time the reference in the text appears; subsequent citations should only cite the first author's name, followed by "et al." When a work has six or more authors, cite only the first author's surname, followed by "et al." Refer to the following citation examples.
In a similar case study, Haley (1973) utilized…
One authority (Green, 1991) suggested…
References should be arranged in alphabetical order of the author's names. Multiple entries by one author are arranged chronologically, with the earliest publication appearing first. When more than one publication by the same author is cited for a year, arrange the citations alphabetically by title and distinguish the citation by lowercase letter: 1991a, 1991b, etc.
Publications by two or more authors should come after all publications by senior author alone. They are arranged alphabetically, after the first author's name, by the names of the second authors, and so on. Multiple books by the same pair or the same group of authors should be arranged chronologically.
The first line of the reference should be indented; subsequent lines should be flush left. Please adhere to stylistic guidelines set forth in the Publication Manual when preparing your reference list. Please note that the page numbers should be inclusive and journal or monograph series titles should not be abbreviated.
Note the punctuation in the following examples:
Ho, M. K. (1987). Family therapy with ethnic minorities. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
Carillo, C. (1982). Changing norms of Hispanic families. In E. E. Jones & S. J. Korchin (Eds.), Minority mental health (pp. 250–266). New York: Praeger.
Sue, D. W. (1990). Culture-specific strategies in counseling: A conceptual framework. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 21, 424–433.
Each table must have a title and should be self-explanatory. Avoid duplicating information in the text. Number tables with Arabic numerals in order of appearance in the text. Indicate in the text where tables should be inserted.
In addition to the permissions applicable to all APA journal articles, please note that reproduction of an unaltered figure, table, or block of text from any non-federal government publication requires permission from the copyright holder. All direct quotations should have a source and page citation.
Only the form of presentation is covered by copyright protection, not the content, so permission is necessary only when material is being reproduced without change. You may quote facts, express them in your own words, or construct a table or figure from published data without permission.
In addition to the publication policies applicable to all APA journal articles, Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology requires that all identifying details regarding the client(s) / patient(s), including but not limited to name, age, race, occupation, and place of residence, be altered to prevent recognition.
If a manuscript includes excerpts from transcripts of therapy sessions, you must obtain a signed release authorizing publication of the transcript from the client. Because the identity of patients may be confidential, we ask that you do not submit the signed release forms with the manuscript; you must, however, retain the signed release forms for your files.
All statements in, or omissions from, published manuscripts are the responsibility of authors, who will be asked to review proofs prior to publication. Reprint order forms will be sent with the page proofs. No page charges will be levied against authors or their institutions for publication in the journal.
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