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 [email protected] with any additional
questions.
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RESEARCH AND EVALUATION
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