CALL FOR PAPERS Counseling Outcome Research and Evaluation

CALL FOR PAPERS Counseling Outcome Research and Evaluation Editor Danica G. Hays, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA An Official Journal of the Association for Assessment in Counseling Education, a division of the American Counseling Association Counseling Outcome Research and Evaluation (CORE) is a new journal that will provide counselors, counselor educators, researchers, educators, and other mental health practitioners with outcome research and program evaluation practices for work with individuals across the lifespan. It addresses topics such as: treatment efficacy; clinical diagnosis; program evaluation; research design; outcome measure reviews; and ethical, legal, and cultural concerns in the assessment of dependent variables, implementation of clinical interventions, and outcome research. Counseling Outcome Research and Evaluation invites academics, practitioners, and researchers concerned with these areas to submit original evidence-based articles that deal with • Counseling outcome research and evaluation practices; • Conceptual articles that move the profession forward in terms of outcome research and evaluation; • “Teaching articles” that present best practices in research methodology in a clear, understandable manner for mental health professionals and trainees. Manuscripts are being solicited in the following categories: • Counseling Outcome Research: Treatment efficacy and effectiveness of mental health, school, addictions, and college counseling interventions as reported in clinical trials, meta-analyses of outcome research, and qualitative reviews of outcome research. • Outcome-based Diagnostic Practices: Diagnostic processes in clinical settings, differential diagnosis, dual diagnosis issues, incidence and prevalence of clinical diagnoses. • Outcome-based Program Evaluation: Evaluation practices within mental health agencies and school and college settings, program development and process evaluations, outcome evaluations, evaluation methodology, evaluation ethics, interdisciplinary evaluations, cultural issues in program evaluations. • Outcome Measure Reviews: Critical reviews and integration of classes or groups of clinical assessment tools used as dependent variables in research studies and outcome measures in clinical practice. • Outcome Research Design: Methodological issues in intervention research, innovative qualitative, quantitative and mixed-methodology, single subject designs, case studies exemplifying assessment and outcome research practices, statistics in assessment and outcome research, data analysis procedures, and report writing.

MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS GUIDELINES Initially, this peer-reviewed online-only journal will consist of two issues per year, with plans to move to a quarterly printed publication. All submissions undergo blind peer review by two or more members of a multidisciplinary panel of experts. In the spirit of a global community Counseling Outcome Research and Evaluation encourages submissions from all regions of the world. For more detailed information about submitting a manuscript to Counseling Outcome Research and Evaluation, please go to http: //cor. sagepub. com and then select "Manuscript Submission. " To submit a paper online, go to http: //mc. manuscriptcentral. com/core Please contact Dr. Danica G. Hays, Editor, at core@odu. edu with any additional questions. REGISTER FOR FREE ONLINE ACCESS TO THE FIRST THREE VOLUMES (THROUGH DECEMBER 2012) OF COUNSELING OUTCOMES RESEARCH AND EVALUATION http: //cor. sagepub. com 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320 U. S. A. Telephone: (800)818 -7243 (U. S. ) (805)499 -9774 (Outside of U. S. ) FAX: (800)583 -2665 (U. S. ) (805)499 -0871 (Outside of U. S. ) E-Mail: journals@sagepub. com Website: www. sagepub. com 1092170