Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 1973, 1, 1, pp. 1

Introducing the Journal: An Editorial HERBERTC. QUAY Temple University The publication of Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology is m response both to the increasing amount of research activity among behavioral scientists focused on the abnormal child and to the increasing amount of social concern with disturbed and deviant children. The number of researchers active in the field and the amount and quality of their work has clearly increased to the point that existing journals devoted to abnormality across all age ranges or to normal child development are neither sufficient nor adequately focused oudets. There is also evidence of increasing governmental concern. During the past few years this concern has been reflected in the activities of the Joint Commission on the Mental Health of Children, in the establishment of child mental health as a first priority for the National Institute of Mental Health and, most recently, in the Health, Education, and Welfare project on the classification of exceptional children; the implications of this project for both research and practice in psychology and education prompted us to ask Dr. Nicholas Hobbs to prepare the paper which appears in this first issue. Our journal is devoted to psychopathology in childhood and adolescence. Substantive areas of concern will include etiology, assessment, treatment in the community and correctional institution, prognosis and follow-up, epiderniology, remediation in the educational setting, pharmacological intervention, and issues related to ecology of abnormal behavior. The target populations will comprise subjects exhibiting a variety of neurotic and organic disorders, delinquency, psychopathy, psychosomatic conditions, and disorders of behavior in mental retardation. While the primary emphasis of our journal will be on experimental and correlational research and data-based theoretical papers, we will not overlook the significant case study and also the brief report detailing the results of an ongoing project. The field has not as yet reached the stage where insightful hypothesis findings can be completely ignored in favor of rigorous hypothesis testing. It is our intent that the Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology be meaningful to the practitioner, the teacher, and the researcher. 1 Copyright (~ 1973 by V. H. Winston & Sons, Inc,

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