Traumatology
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Traumatology is a primary reference for professionals all over the world who study and treat people exposed to highly stressful and traumatic events, such as terrorist bombings, war disasters, fires, accidents, criminal and familial abuse, hostage-taking, hospitalization, major illness, abandonment, and sudden unemployment.
Whether you are a psychologist, medical or nursing professional, aid worker, social worker, or other disaster/trauma professional, Traumatology will help you better understand how to work with disaster victims and their families, as well as other caregivers.
Each unique issue offers original articles, reviews, field reports, brief reports, commentary, and media reviews on trauma research, treatment, prevention, education, training, medical, legal, policy and theoretical concerns.
Among the topics covered in recent issues are:
- adaptive coping in adolescent trauma survivors
- emotional release technique: a new desensitization method
- gender differences and acute stress reactions among rescue personnel
- helpful interventions on the Mississippi Gulf Coast
- neurological basis for the observed peripheral sensory modulation of emotional responses
- post-traumatic growth and HIV bereavement
- post-traumatic growth following a cancer diagnosis
- post-traumatic stress in youth experiencing illnesses and injuries
- post-tsunami training of helpers in Phuket, Thailand 2005
- psychological growth from a close brush with death
- sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system
- Stockholm effects and psychological responses to captivity in hostages held by suicide terrorists
- the counting method: applying the rule of parsimony to the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder
- vicarious witnessing in European concentration camps: imagining the trauma of another
Editor
Brian E. Bride
Georgia State University School of Social Work
Founding Editor
Charles R. Figley
Founding Editor, 1995-2011
Associate Editors
Lisa Butler
School of Social Work, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Nathan Denny
Medical Treatment Facility, Little Rock Air Force Base, Little Rock, AR
Tina Maschi
Graduate School of Social Service, Fordham University
Editorial Board
Richard Allen
California Disaster Mental Health Coalition, CA
David V. Baldwin
Southern Oregon State College
Randy Beaton
School of Nursing, University of Washington
Uri Bergmann
Private Practice, Commack, NY
Sandra L. Bloom
Community Works, Inc., Medford, OR
Danny Brom
The Israel Center for the Treatment of Psychotrauma, Jerusalem
Carl A. Castro
Medical Research and Materiel Command, AMEDD, Fort Detrick, MD
Don R. Catherall
Northwestern University Medical School
Eduardo H. Cazabat
Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Anne M. Dietrich
PTSD Clinic, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Atle Dyregrov
Center for Crisis Psychology, Bergen, Norway
Elizabeth H. M. Eurelings-Bontekow
University of Leiden, The Netherlands
Garry A. Flint
Clinical Psychologist, Vernon, British Columbia, Canada
Gerald French
Traumatic Incident Reduction, Johannesburg, South Africa
Kathleen R. Gilbert
Indiana University
David H. Gleaves
University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Ricky Greenwald
Child Trauma Institute, Greenfield, MA
Chrys J. Harris
Family Therapy & Trauma Center, P. A., Greer, SC
Are Holen
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
W. Jake Jacobs
University of Arizona and The University of Arizona South
Russell T. Jones
Virginia Tech
Robert L. Koffman
Navy Medicine, Washington, DC
Bruce Lackie
University of Maine School of Social Work
Evelin G. Lindner
University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Judith Lyons
Veterans Affairs and University of Mississippi Medical Centers
Irwin J. Mansdorf
American Board of Forensic Examiners, Springfield, MO
Marianne Mathewson-Chapman
VHA/DoD Outreach Office, VA Office of Seamless Transition, Washington, DC
Gary E. May
University of Southern Indiana
Nicholas Mazza
Florida State University College of Social Work
Bret A. Moore
85th Medical Detachment, Combat Stress Control, Ft. Hood, TX
Patrick Morrissette
Brandon University School of Health Studies
Kathleen O. Nader
Director, Two Suns, for the assistance of traumatized children, Cedar Park, TX
Karen Quigley
New Jersey Health Care System, East Orange, NJ
Michael Rank
University of South Florida School of Social Work
Robyn Robinson
Trauma Support Consultants Pty. Ltd., Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Josef I. Ruzek
Palo Alto University
Ted Rynearson
National Homicide Support Project, Seattle, WA
Philip Saigh
Columbia University
Randy Sansone
Wright State University School of Medicine, Dayton, OH
Eitan D. Schwarz
Northwestern University Medical School
Raymond M. Scurfield
University of Southern Mississippi School of Social Work
Jane Shakespeare-Finch
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Jonathan Shay
Tufts Medical School and VA Outpatient Clinic
Zahava Solomon
University of Tel Aviv, Israel
Anne Speckhard
Georgetown University Medical School
David Straton
Mermaid Waters Therapy Clinic, Queensland, Australia
Tony Taylor
Victoria University of Wellington, School of Psychology, Wellington, New Zealand
Bruce A. Thyer
Florida State University
Paul Valent
Monash Medical Center, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
Onno van der Hart
Free University, Heidelberg, The Netherlands
Bessel van der Kolk
Boston University Medical School
Mary Beth Williams
Environmental Protection Services, Wheeling, WV
John P. Wilson
Department of Psychology, Cleveland State University
William Yule
Maudsley Hospital, London, United Kingdom
Abstracting and indexing services providing coverage of Traumatology
- PsycINFO
- PILOTS
- SafetyLit
Prior to submission, please carefully read and follow the submission guidelines detailed below. Manuscripts that do not conform to the submission guidelines may be returned without review.
Submission
Submit manuscripts electronically through the Manuscript Submission Portal.
Brian E. Bride, PhD, MSW, MPH
Georgia State University School of Social Work
General correspondence may be directed to the Editor's Office.
In addition to addresses and phone numbers, please supply email addresses, as most communications will be by email. Fax numbers, if available, should also be provided for potential use by the editorial office and later by the production office.
Manuscript Preparation
Manuscripts submitted to Traumatology should be prepared in accordance with the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th Edition (2010).
Review APA's Checklist for Manuscript Submission before submitting your article.
Formatting
Double-space all copy. Other formatting instructions, as well as instructions on preparing tables, figures, references, metrics, and abstracts, appear in the Manual.
Below are additional instructions regarding the preparation of display equations, computer code, and tables.
Display Equations
We strongly encourage you to use MathType (third-party software) or Equation Editor 3.0 (built into pre-2007 versions of Word) to construct your equations, rather than the equation support that is built into Word 2007 and Word 2010. Equations composed with the built-in Word 2007/Word 2010 equation support are converted to low-resolution graphics when they enter the production process and must be rekeyed by the typesetter, which may introduce errors.
To construct your equations with MathType or Equation Editor 3.0:
- Go to the Text section of the Insert tab and select Object.
- Select MathType or Equation Editor 3.0 in the drop-down menu.
If you have an equation that has already been produced using Microsoft Word 2007 or 2010 and you have access to the full version of MathType 6.5 or later, you can convert this equation to MathType by clicking on MathType Insert Equation. Copy the equation from Microsoft Word and paste it into the MathType box. Verify that your equation is correct, click File, and then click Update. Your equation has now been inserted into your Word file as a MathType Equation.
Use Equation Editor 3.0 or MathType only for equations or for formulas that cannot be produced as Word text using the Times or Symbol font.
Computer Code
Because altering computer code in any way (e.g., indents, line spacing, line breaks, page breaks) during the typesetting process could alter its meaning, we treat computer code differently from the rest of your article in our production process. To that end, we request separate files for computer code.
In Online Supplemental Material
We request that runnable source code be included as supplemental material to the article. For more information, visit Supplementing Your Article With Online Material.
In the Text of the Article
If you would like to include code in the text of your published manuscript, please submit a separate file with your code exactly as you want it to appear, using Courier New font with a type size of 8 points. We will make an image of each segment of code in your article that exceeds 40 characters in length. (Shorter snippets of code that appear in text will be typeset in Courier New and run in with the rest of the text.) If an appendix contains a mix of code and explanatory text, please submit a file that contains the entire appendix, with the code keyed in 8-point Courier New.
Tables
Use Word's Insert Table function when you create tables. Using spaces or tabs in your table will create problems when the table is typeset and may result in errors.
Submitting Supplemental Materials
APA can place supplemental materials online, available via the published article in the PsycARTICLES® database. Please see Supplementing Your Article With Online Material for more details.
Abstract and Keywords
All manuscripts must include an abstract containing a maximum of 250 words typed on a separate page. After the abstract, please supply up to five keywords or brief phrases.
References
List references in alphabetical order. Each listed reference should be cited in text, and each text citation should be listed in the References section.
Examples of basic reference formats:
- Journal Article:
Hughes, G., Desantis, A., & Waszak, F. (2013). Mechanisms of intentional binding and sensory attenuation: The role of temporal prediction, temporal control, identity prediction, and motor prediction. Psychological Bulletin, 139, 133–151. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0028566 - Authored Book:
Rogers, T. T., & McClelland, J. L. (2004). Semantic cognition: A parallel distributed processing approach. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. - Chapter in an Edited Book:
Gill, M. J., & Sypher, B. D. (2009). Workplace incivility and organizational trust. In P. Lutgen-Sandvik & B. D. Sypher (Eds.), Destructive organizational communication: Processes, consequences, and constructive ways of organizing (pp. 53–73). New York, NY: Taylor & Francis.
Figures
Graphics files are welcome if supplied as Tiff or EPS files. Multipanel figures (i.e., figures with parts labeled a, b, c, d, etc.) should be assembled into one file.
The minimum line weight for line art is 0.5 point for optimal printing.
For more information about acceptable resolutions, fonts, sizing, and other figure issues, please see the general guidelines.
When possible, please place symbol legends below the figure instead of to the side.
APA offers authors the option to publish their figures online in color without the costs associated with print publication of color figures.
The same caption will appear on both the online (color) and print (black and white) versions. To ensure that the figure can be understood in both formats, authors should add alternative wording (e.g., "the red (dark gray) bars represent") as needed.
For authors who prefer their figures to be published in color both in print and online, original color figures can be printed in color at the editor's and publisher's discretion provided the author agrees to pay:
- $900 for one figure
- An additional $600 for the second figure
- An additional $450 for each subsequent figure
Permissions
Authors of accepted papers must obtain and provide to the editor on final acceptance all necessary permissions to reproduce in print and electronic form any copyrighted work, including test materials (or portions thereof), photographs, and other graphic images (including those used as stimuli in experiments).
On advice of counsel, APA may decline to publish any image whose copyright status is unknown.
Publication Policies
APA policy prohibits an author from submitting the same manuscript for concurrent consideration by two or more publications.
See also APA Journals® Internet Posting Guidelines.
APA requires authors to reveal any possible conflict of interest in the conduct and reporting of research (e.g., financial interests in a test or procedure, funding by pharmaceutical companies for drug research).
Authors of accepted manuscripts are required to transfer the copyright to APA.
- For manuscripts not funded by the Wellcome Trust or the Research Councils UK
Publication Rights (Copyright Transfer) Form (PDF, 83KB) - For manuscripts funded by the Wellcome Trust or the Research Councils UK
Wellcome Trust or Research Councils UK Publication Rights Form (PDF, 34KB)
Ethical Principles
It is a violation of APA Ethical Principles to publish "as original data, data that have been previously published" (Standard 8.13).
In addition, APA Ethical Principles specify that "after research results are published, psychologists do not withhold the data on which their conclusions are based from other competent professionals who seek to verify the substantive claims through reanalysis and who intend to use such data only for that purpose, provided that the confidentiality of the participants can be protected and unless legal rights concerning proprietary data preclude their release" (Standard 8.14).
APA expects authors to adhere to these standards. Specifically, APA expects authors to have their data available throughout the editorial review process and for at least 5 years after the date of publication.
Authors are required to state in writing that they have complied with APA ethical standards in the treatment of their sample, human or animal, or to describe the details of treatment.
The APA Ethics Office provides the full Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct electronically on its website in HTML, PDF, and Word format. You may also request a copy by emailing or calling the APA Ethics Office (202-336-5930). You may also read "Ethical Principles," December 1992, American Psychologist, Vol. 47, pp. 1597–1611.
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