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Journal of Behavior Therapy And Mental Health
Peer-reviewed research on behavior therapy and mental health across basic, clinical, population, and methodological studies.
JBTM publishes research on behavior therapy and mental health, including mechanisms, assessment, prevention, treatment, recovery, and services. Research in either area may contribute independently.
Original research, reviews and clinically grounded reports are welcomed from clinical and counseling psychology, behavior analysis, psychiatry, mental health nursing, social work, occupational health and public health. Randomized and non-randomized trials, single-case experimental designs, observational and survey research, qualitative studies, psychometric work and systematic reviews are all within the journal's remit, provided the design is appropriate to the question and reported in enough detail for a reader to judge it.
Manuscripts are handled by named editors and reviewed by independent subject-matter experts. Read the aims and scope
Published record
Latest published research
Selected research and reviews from the journal's archive of 27 published records across 2 volumes and 7 issues, published between 2015 and 2026. Each entry resolves to its version of record through Crossref.
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Research article Volume 2, Issue 3 Pages 4–26
Core and activating Symptoms of Depression in Chinese Teachers and Comparison between Different Gender and Stage of Teaching: A Network Analysis Approach
Shumeng Ma, Ning Jia, Jinghua Dai
Department of Psychology, Hebei Normal University, and College of Humanities Management, Hebei University of Chinese Medicine, Shijiazhuang, China
Mental health assessment and outcomes · depression symptom structure
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Review article Volume 2, Issue 2 Pages 15–21
Covid-19 Pandemic: Mental Dynamics of Quarantine and Social Isolation
Jainish Patel, Prittesh Patel
Indira Gandhi National Open University, Regional Center, Surat, and Uka Tarsadia University, Bardoli, Gujarat, India
Stress, coping and psychological wellbeing · isolation and quarantine
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Research article Volume 2, Issue 1 Pages 21–29
First Year University Students Self-Reported Health Outcomes Over an Academic Semester
P.K. Doyle-Baker, K.M. Verge, L. McClelland, T. Fung
Faculty of Kinesiology and Faculty of Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Stress, coping and psychological wellbeing · student populations
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Review article Volume 1, Issue 4 Pages 19–38
“That Which is Measured Improves”: A Theoretical and Empirical Review of Self-Monitoring in Self-Management and Adaptive Behavior Change
Jessica A. Chen, Eliot Fearey, Ronald E. Smith
Department of Psychology, University of Washington, and Department of Psychology, University of Maine, United States
Applied behavior analysis · self-monitoring and behavior change
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Research article Volume 1, Issue 4 Pages 10–18
Family Caregivers’ Knowledge About Their Ill Relatives’ Mental Illness And Treatment: Perspectives From The Niger Delta Region Of Nigeria
Izibeloko O. Jack-Ide, Felicia E. Amegheme
Department of Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing, Niger Delta University, and Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Benin, Nigeria
Mental health services and access · family caregiving
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Review article Volume 1, Issue 2 Pages 12–23
A Longitudinal Intervention Study to Reduce Aggression by Children Ages 4-11
Robert V.J. Basso, John W. Graham
Faculty of Social Work, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Cognitive and behavioral interventions · childhood aggression
The complete record is in the Archives; the most recent issue is at Current Issue.
Subject coverage
Six territories, stated so an author can place a manuscript
JBTM covers behavior therapy and mental health, including psychological interventions, basic mechanisms, assessment, determinants, prevention, recovery, and services.
- Cognitive and behavioral interventions
- Cognitive behavioral therapy, exposure-based treatment, behavioral activation, and acceptance- and mindfulness-based approaches, in trials, routine practice and single-case designs.
- Applied behavior analysis
- Functional assessment, contingency management, self-monitoring and behavior-change techniques, including their application outside the clinic.
- Mental health services and access
- Help-seeking, service use, caregiving and family burden, community and primary-care mental health, and the organization of care across settings and countries.
- Stress, coping and psychological wellbeing
- Stress, coping and wellbeing in student, occupational and clinical populations, including burnout and its psychological and physiological correlates.
- Psychotherapy practice and training
- Therapist training and supervision, treatment fidelity, adaptation for different populations, and implementation of evidence-based treatment in routine care.
- Measurement and outcome assessment
- Psychometric development and validation, routine outcome monitoring, clinical significance, and reporting standards for behavioral and psychological interventions.
Scope, article types and the boundary of what the journal considers are set out in full on Aims and Scope.
Where the journal sits
Adjacent fields, and what each contributes here
Behavior therapy, clinical psychology, psychiatry and mental health services research overlap, but they are not interchangeable. The journal considers basic, clinical, population, and methodological research with a substantive contribution to behavior therapy or mental health.
- Behavior therapy
- Treatment derived from learning principles and behavior analysis — the journal's center, together with the cognitive therapies that developed from it.
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
- Structured, time-limited treatment addressing cognition and behavior together. In scope as treatment research, process research and implementation research.
- Clinical psychology
- In scope where the work concerns assessment, formulation or treatment. Basic personality or cognitive research is in scope when it contributes substantively to behavior therapy or mental health. Immediate clinical application is not required.
- Psychiatry
- In scope for the assessment and treatment of mental disorder, and for the services that deliver it. Pharmacological trials are considered where a behavioral or psychological outcome is central.
- Behavioral medicine
- Behavior change applied to physical health — adherence, health behavior, and the psychological dimension of chronic illness.
- Mental health services research
- Help-seeking, access, workforce, caregiving and the organization of care. The half of the journal's title that treatment research alone does not cover.
Basic laboratory work in psychology or neuroscience is considered only where the manuscript makes the link to a behavioral or mental health application explicit and testable. Manuscripts must present a method a reader can evaluate; theoretical frameworks are considered where they are developed against evidence rather than asserted.
Editorial oversight
Who decides, and on what basis
Manuscripts are handled by named editors. Four members of the board are shown here with the institution and the expertise each brings to the journal's subject; every member is listed in full on the Editorial Board page.
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Editor-in-Chief
Shahid Ullah
Associate Professor in Biostatistics, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University
Applied statistics and biostatistics; Statistical and epidemiological methodology and modelling; Functional data analysis for time series forecasting; Marginal and structural equation modelsJoint modelling for survival and longitudinal data; Geospatial analysis for health data
ORCID 0000-0002-6007-3581
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Editorial Board
Michela Balsamo
Associate professor, 'G. D'Annunzio' di Chieti-Pescara, Chieti
Psychometrics measurement Of Clinical Variables, Anxiety, Depression, Rumination
ORCID 0000-0001-5396-3853
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Editorial Board
Roberto Maniglio
Associate Professor, Università del Salento, Lecce
child abuse, sexual offenders, parenting, substance abuse, victimization, depression
ORCID 0000-0002-2237-6573
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Editorial Board
Tulin Fidan
Director, Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Eskisehir
Mental Retardation, ADHD, eating disorder, Autism Spectrum Disorders and genetic, Disruptive Behavioral Disorders, Child Abuse and Neglect.
ORCID 0000-0002-3690-3653
- Editorial board members8
- Countries represented7
- Members with an ORCID iD6
Every member is named on the Editorial Board page. Researchers and clinicians working in behavior therapy and mental health who would like to review or to join the board are invited to write to the editorial office.
Peer review
Single-blind by default; double-blind review is available on request.
All submissions undergo initial editorial screening. Manuscripts that meet the journal's scope and minimum requirements proceed to independent peer review.
Manuscripts that proceed to external peer review are normally evaluated by at least two independent subject-matter experts. Reviewers are selected for methodological as well as topical fit, so a treatment trial and a psychometric validation are not assessed against the same criteria.
Editorial decisions
Editorial decisions are based on scope, scientific quality, methodological rigor, ethical compliance, reporting quality, and relevance to the journal.
Decisions are made by the handling editor on the evidence in the manuscript and the reviews, and remain independent of fees, services, memberships or editorial roles. Editors recuse themselves from decisions on their own submissions, which are handled independently.
Research on human participants
Studies involving human participants must report ethical approval and consent arrangements. Manuscripts reporting on identifiable participants must document consent to publish, and authors are expected to report clinical and demographic detail no more precisely than the scientific question requires.
Interventional clinical trials must be registered in an accepted public trial registry at or before the first participant provides consent for enrollment. The registry name, registration number, and registration date must be reported in the manuscript.
Every empirical research manuscript must include a data-availability statement.
Integrity and the published record
Authorship, funding and competing-interest disclosures are required at submission. Where a correction, an expression of concern or a retraction is warranted after publication, it is issued as a citable notice linked to the article it concerns, so the record shows what changed and why.
Full terms are on Editorial Policies and in the Instructions for Authors.
Identifiers and discovery
How the work is identified and found
Journal identifier
The journal is registered with the ISSN International Centre under ISSN 2474-9273 (electronic), the identifier under which its title is recorded.
Article identifiers
Articles are registered with Crossref under the DOI prefix 10.14302, so each has a persistent link and its metadata is available to the services that consume Crossref.
Access and licensing
Articles are published open access under CC BY 4.0 and authors retain copyright. There is no subscription, no registration and no embargo between publication and a reader.
Discovery services and indexing
DOI registration, ISSN registration and ORCID display are identifier services and are not journal-level indexing; discovery services that harvest open metadata are a third, separate category. The Indexing page keeps the categories apart and states which databases have been independently confirmed, with the date each was last checked.
Author pathway
One charge, three routes
Article processing charge
USD 2,100
Charged after acceptance only. There is no submission fee and no charge for editorial handling or peer review.
Authors who expect difficulty meeting the charge should write to the editorial office before submitting.
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Primary route
ManuscriptZone
The journal's submission system. oap.manuscriptzone.net
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Alternative route
Manuscript submission form
A simple form that records the manuscript and its files. openaccesspub.org/manuscript-submission-form
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Assisted route
Editorial office
Authors who need assistance may write to the editorial office. [email protected]
Authors must use only one submission route for the same manuscript.
Before submitting, read the Instructions for Authors for manuscript preparation and reporting requirements, and Editorial Policies for ethics, consent and disclosure.
Submit your research to JBTM
Journal of Behavior Therapy And Mental Health welcomes submissions throughout the year from researchers, clinicians and multidisciplinary teams working across behavior therapy and mental health. Regular submissions are accepted throughout the year.
Work from settings that are under-represented in the treatment literature — low-resource services, non-specialist providers, populations outside the university clinic — is particularly welcome.
Journal of Behavior Therapy And Mental Health (JBTM) · ISSN 2474-9273 (electronic) · Open access under CC BY 4.0 · Crossref DOI prefix 10.14302 · Published by Open Access Pub · Contact the editorial office