Celebrating 50 years of The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry!

The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry

Published on behalf of the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Edited by:
Tony Charman

ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 9/101 Psychiatry; 6/85 Psychiatry (Social Science); 2/55 Psychology, Developmental
Impact Factor: 4.854

The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (JCPP) is internationally recognised to be the leading journal covering both child and adolescent psychology and psychiatry. Articles published include experimental and developmental studies, especially those relating to developmental psychopathology and the developmental disorders. An important function of JCPP is to bring together empirical research, clinical studies and reviews of high quality arising from different points of view. JCPP also features a yearly special issue.

TopNews and Announcements

Forthcoming Virtual Issue: Changing Concepts of Dyslexia: Nature, Treatment and Co-Morbidity
Edited by Maggie Snowling
This special Virtual Issue will bring together a selection of articles previously published in JCPP and will be freely available online.

Highlights will include:
The Concept of Specific Reading Retardation. By Michael Rutter & William Yule (published in JCPP July 1975)
Annotation: Does Dyslexia Exist? By Keith E. Stanovich (published in JCPP May 1994)
Specific Reading Disability (Dyslexia): What Have We Learned in the Past Four Decades? By Frank R. Vellutino, Jack M. Fletcher, Margaret J. Snowling & Donna M. Scanlon (published in JCPP January 2004)

50th Anniversary Special Issue - Now freely available online!

Editorial: Envisioning the Future after 50 Years of Science and Discovery
Tony Charman (Editor-in-Chief), James Leckman (Associate Editor, Annual Research Reviews) and Frank Verhulst (former Editor-in Chief).

The year 2009 is the 53rd anniversary of the founding of the Association for Child Psychology and Psychiatry (renamed the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health in 2005), and the 50th anniversary of the first volume of The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. To commemorate the founding of the JCPP, we are delighted to introduce this special issue, comprising a series of articles by distinguished scientists, each of whom has made a major contribution to our field. To read more of this Editorial, please click here.

Please click here to read the 50th Anniversary Special Issue online today, freely available to all.

Call for Papers - Special Issue on Early Prevention and Intervention Programs
The Editors of JCCP continue the series on special topics for which there is a particularly high level of research activity. The next Special Issue, to be edited by Nurit Yirmiya, will be on the topic of Early Prevention and Intervention Programs. Submissions for all innovative work in this area are welcome. For further information, including submission guidelines and deadline, please click here.

Why submit your article to The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry?

• Ranked 2nd in Developmental Psychology category, Thomson ISI;
• Impact Factor 4.854 (2008);
• Publishes an Annual Research Review bringing you the very best papers on current critical topics of the field;
• Over 6,000 institutions with access to current content;
• Massive international readership; over 450,000 articles downloaded every year with strong online usage in the US, Australasia and Asia as well as the UK and Europe;
• Genuinely international authorship - 1/3 in the US, 1/3 in the UK and 1/5 in Europe;
• State of the art online submission site, simple and quick to use:- http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jcpp-camh;
• Articles appear on Early View before the paper version is published - Click here to see the Early View articles currently available online;
• Acceptance to Early View publication approx. 2 months; Acceptance to print publication approx. 6 months;
• Authors receive free online access to their article once published as well as 20% discount on all Wiley-Blackwell publications.

Free Access in the Developing World
Free online access to this journal is available within institutions in the developing world through the HINARI initiative with the World Health Organization (WHO).

All issues back to Volume 1 (1960) are now available online. Click here to view.
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The Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH) National Conferences
The Association raises awareness of developments within child and adolescent mental health through its medium of conferences, training events and meetings which target national as well as local needs.
ACAMH hosts annual national day conferences, which highlight current topics, inform about best practice and evidence-based research and offer multi-disciplinary discussion forums. The content of the conferences - academic as well as clinical - is designed to meet the needs both of the Association's members as well as those who are interested in these and linked issues.
Both day conferences are respected in the sector for the relevance of their themes, the high standard of the presentations and the quality of the speakers. Recent topics have covered a wide spectrum, encompassing the popular topics such as autism and asperger's syndrome, dyslexia, depression, ADHD, cognitive behaviour therapy and attachment as well as the more specialist subject areas such as genetics or post traumatic stress disorder.
ACAMH's network of branches provides a framework of events which cater for the local audience. These take the form of either full-day or half-day conferences or twilight meetings and some of these events attract in excess of 100 delegates, particularly in those areas where other course providers are limited. The subject matter of conferences is frequently determined by feedback from our members or recognition of an area which deserves to be brought to the fore. Events are open to both members and non-members, are either free or very reasonably priced and are always popular with those attending.

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TopHighlights

Recent Special Issues:

• Special Issue on Neuroimaging - Edited by Daniel Pine
• Special Molecular Genetics Section - Edited by Thalia C. Eley
  

TopEndorsements

'JCPP is clearly the world's No. 1 child psychology and psychiatry journal. It integrates clinical and developmental perspectives, it is truly international, and interdisciplinary, and it combines high scientific standards with attention to clinical relevance.'
Prof. Sir Michael Rutter