Practice Innovations

Practice Innovations® serves practitioners by publishing clinical, practical, and research articles on current and evolving standards, practices, and methods in professional mental health practice. Designed as a cross-disciplinary publication with a multi-theoretical scope, the journal supports innovation and the highest standards of care in mental health practice. Coverage areas include population-based practice issues, procedure or technique-based practice issues, diagnosis-based practice issues, and service delivery models.

Unsolicited manuscripts that propose new assessment approaches, treatment recommendations, clinical decision-making frameworks, or practice guidelines should be supported by an appropriate methodological foundation. Clinical experience, opinion and narrative reviews of the literature can provide valuable insights and help identify emerging issues; however, they are generally insufficient on their own to support the authors' clinical recommendations in a scholarly journal. Manuscripts proposing practice guidance should typically include evidence derived from methods such as systematic reviews, empirical evaluation, formal consensus processes, or other rigorous approaches that establish the rationale, applicability, and limitations of the proposed recommendations.

Journal diversity statement

Practice Innovations (PRI) is committed to embedding diversity in all areas of research, practice, and training. PRI implements the revised APA multicultural guidelines, which emphasize the integration of an ecological approach to diversity (APA, 2017). PRI has a deep understanding that diversity extends well beyond race and ethnicity, and includes but is not limited to gender identity, ability status, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, religion, language, and acculturation levels, and acknowledges the impact of the intersectionality of each of these aspects.