The American Psychological Association (APA) has announced that it will begin publication of a new journal, Spirituality in Clinical Practice, in March 2014. The quarterly journal is designed for clinical practitioners and will feature articles that embrace spiritually-oriented psychotherapy and spirituality-sensitive cultural approaches to treatment and wellness.
Spirituality in Clinical Practice plans to integrate psychospiritual and other spiritually-oriented interventions involved in psychotherapy, consultation, and coaching. The journal will provide a forum for those engaged in clinical activities to report on their efforts. The journal will foster original scientific development in the field by highlighting actual and potential applications of spirituality in clinical practice. It intends to report on therapeutic approaches that are supported by research and to initiate research on questions informed by clinical practice.
Spirituality in Clinical Practice will publish articles, reviews, commentaries, reflections, and practice case reports. Whenever possible, articles and related commentaries will be published in the same issue. The journal is currently accepting submissions. It welcomes approaches from related fields of study, including medicine, integrative medicine, biology, neuroscience, ethnology, anthropology, and natural sciences. Guidelines regarding submissions can be found on the journal's homepage: http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/scp.
The journal will be co-edited by Dr. Lisa Miller, Director of Clinical Psychology at Columbia University and Dr. Len Sperry, Professor and Director of the Doctoral Program in Counseling at Florida Atlantic University.
Articles published in Spirituality in Clinical Practice will also be available through PsycARTICLES®, the most used full-text database in psychology and one of the most popular databases in all scholarly disciplines and fields. PsycARTICLES is available to a global audience of nearly 3,200 institutions and 60 million potential users.
