Journal of Pediatric Psychology
Instructions to Authors
An Official Journal of the Society of Pediatric Psychology, Division 54 of the American Psychological Association Editor Grayson N. Holmbeck, PhD, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL Associate Editors Dean W. Beebe, PhD, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH John V. Lavigne, PhD, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL Tonya M. Palermo, PhD, University of Washington School of Medicine and Seattle Children’s Hospital Lori J. Stark, PhD, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH Ric G. Steele, PhD, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS Tim Wysocki, PhD, Nemours Children’s Clinic, Jacksonville, FL Historian Anne E. Kazak, PhD, Nemours Children’s Health System, Wilmington, DE Editorial Assistant Susan Wood, Cleveland, OH Editorial Board Melissa Alderfer, PhD, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA Robert D. Annett, PhD, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM Brandon S. Aylward, PhD, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH Glen P. Aylward, PhD, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, IL Lamia P. Barakat, PhD, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA Kristoffer S. Berlin, PhD, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN Maureen M. Black, PhD, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD Ronald L. Blount, PhD, University of Georgia, Athens, GA Richard E. Boles, PhD, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO Ronald Brown, PhD, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI Joseph P. Bush, PhD, Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, CA Kelly C. Byars, PhD, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH Cathy Catroppa, PhD, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia Christine T. Chambers, PhD, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Jill MacLaren Chorney, PhD, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Lisa M. Clifford, PhD, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL Lindsey L. Cohen, PhD, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV Mark Connelly, PhD, Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, Kansas City, KS Christopher C. Cushing, PhD, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS Amy L. Damashek, PhD, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI Ann McGrath Davis, PhD, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, MO Katie Devine, PhD, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY David DiLillo, PhD, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE Kimberly Driscoll, PhD, Florida State University College, Tallahassee, FL Danny C. Duke, PhD, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR Christina L. Duncan, PhD, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV Deborah Ellis, PhD, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI David Fedele, PhD, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL Kurt Freeman, PhD, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR Deborah Friedman, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MD Bernard Fuemmeler, PhD, Duke University, Durham, NC Cindy Gerhardt, PhD, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH Jordan Gilleland, PhD, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA Wendy Gray, PhD, Auburn University, Auburn, AL Leilani Greening, PhD, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS Rachel Neff Greenley, PhD, Rosalind Franklin University, Chicago, IL Wendy Hadley, PhD, Brown University Medical School, Providence, RI
Anthony A. Hains, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI Chantelle Hart, PhD, The Miriam Hospital & Brown Medical School, Providence Vicki S. Helgeson, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA Marisa Hilliard, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX Amy S. Lewandowski Holley, PhD, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR Kevin A. Hommel, PhD, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH Korey Hood, PhD, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA Joyce Hopkins, PhD, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL Christopher D. Houck, PhD, Brown Medical School/Bradley Hasbro Children’s Research Center, Providence, RI Lisa M. Ingerski, MS, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN Barbara Jandasek, PhD, Alpert Medical School of Brown University/Bradley Hasbro Children’s Research Center, Providence, RI David M. Janicke, PhD, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL Sarah Jaser, PhD, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN Elissa Jelalian, PhD, Brown Medical School/Bradley Hasbro Children’s Research Center, Providence, RI Chad D. Jensen, PhD, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT Deborah Jones, PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC Jodi Kamps, PhD, Children’s Hospital, New Orleans, LA Bryan T. Karazsia, PhD, College of Wooster, Wooster, OH Astrida Seja Kaugars, PhD, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI Anne E. Kazak, PhD, Nemours Children’s Health System, Wilmington, DE Jessica Kichler, PhD, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH William Kronenberger, PhD, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN Ian Kudel, PhD, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH Annette M. La Greca, PhD, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL Emily Law, PhD, University of Washington School of Medicine and Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, WA Kathleen L. Lemanek, PhD, Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH Celia Lescano, PhD, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL Karen Liller, PhD, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL Deirdre Logan, PhD, Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA Eleanor Mackey, PhD, Children’s National Health System, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC Sunnye Mayes, PhD, ABPP, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK Elizabeth McQuaid, PhD, Brown University, Providence, RI Robyn Mehlenbeck, PhD, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA Aaron Metzger, PhD, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV Victoria Miller, PhD, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA Avani Modi, PhD, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
Barbara Morrongiello, PhD, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, CANADA Larry L. Mullins, PhD, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK Timothy Nelson, PhD, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE Melanie Noel, PhD, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, WA Lisa Opipari-Arrigan, PhD, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center/University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH Ahna Pai, PhD, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH Debra L. Palmer, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Stevens Point, WI Jennifer Shroff Pendley, PhD, Dupont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, DE Sean Phipps, PhD, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN Michael A. Rapoff, PhD, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS Joseph R. Rausch, PhD, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH Graham Reid, PhD, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario Jennifer Reiter-Purtill, PhD, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio Kristin Riekert, PhD, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD Michael C. Roberts, PhD, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS Paul M. Robins, PhD, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA David E. Sandberg, PhD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Amy Sato, PhD, Kent State University, Kent, OH Jennifer Verrill Schurman, PhD, ABPP, BCB, Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, Kansas City, MO Lisa Anne Schwartz, PhD, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA David C. Schwebel, PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL Mariella M. Self, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine & Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX Laura E. Simons, PhD, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA Terry Stancin, PhD, MetroHealth Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio Randi Streisand, PhD, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC Kenneth Tercyak, PhD, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC Jason Van Allen, PhD, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX Carl L. von Baeyer, PhD, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, CA Deborah Waber, PhD, Children’s Hospital Boston/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA Jill Weissberg-Benchell, PhD, Children’s Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL Deborah Wiebe, PhD, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX Anna Camille Wilson, PhD, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR Ericka Wodka, PhD, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD Yelena Wu, PhD, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT Keith O. Yeates, PhD, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada Kathy Zebracki, PhD, Shriners Hospitals for Children, Chicago and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Officers of the Society of Pediatric Psychology
Sharon Berry, PhD, ABPP, President; Elissa Jelalian, PhD, Past President; Celia Lescano, PhD, President Elect; Christine Chambers, PhD, Secretary; T. David Elkin, PhD, ABPP, Treasurer; Jennifer V. Schurman, PhD, ABPP, Member-at-Large; Jessica M. Valenzuela, PhD, Member-at-Large; Wendy L. Ward, PhD, ABPP, Member-at-Large; Eleanor Mackey, PhD, Member-at-Large; Anne Kazak, PhD, ABPP, APA Council Representative; Jennifer Shroff Pendley, PhD, Editor, Clinical Practice in Pediatric Psychology; Laura Simons, PhD, Editor, Progress Notes (newsletter); Anne Kazak, PhD, ABPP, Historian; Elizabeth Pulgaron, PhD, APA Program Chair; Jaclyn L. Papadakis, MA, ˜o-Ferna´ndez, PhD, SPP Annual Conference Program Chair Student Representative; Bryan Karazsia, PhD, Web Master and Listserv Manager; Anna Maria Patin
The main emphasis of the journal is on original research. Analytical reviews of research, scholarly case studies, and commentaries are also considered for publication. The JPP Web site (www.jpepsy.oxfordjournals.org) includes book reviews in addition to general information on the journal. Submissions are welcomed from authors in psychology and other disciplines serving children and families. Manuscript preparation: Manuscripts (text, references, tables, figures, etc.) should be prepared in detailed accord with the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.). There are two exceptions: (a) The academic degrees of authors should be placed on the title page following their names, and (b) a structured abstract of 150 words should be included. The abstract should include the following parts: Objective (brief statement of the purpose of the study); Methods (summary of the participants, (the design, measures, procedure); Results primary findings of this work); and Conclusions (statement of implications of these data). Key words should be included, consistent with APA style. Submissions should be double-spaced throughout, with margins of at least 1 inch and font size of 12 points (or 26 lines per page, 12–15 characters per inch). Authors should remove all identifying information from the body of the manuscript so that peer reviewers will be unable to recognize the authors and their affiliations. E-mail addresses should be included in the author note. Original research articles should not exceed 25 pages, in total, including title page, references, figures, tables, etc. In the case of papers that report on multiple studies or those with methodologies that necessitate detailed explanation, the authors should justify longer manuscript length to the Editor in the cover letter. Scholarly reviews should not exceed 30 pages total. Case reports should not exceed 20 pages. Case reports are appropriate to document the efficacy of new treatment applications, describe new clinical phenomena, to develop hypotheses, to illustrate methodological issues, difficult diagnoses, novel treatment approaches, and to identify unmet clinical or research needs. Guidelines for case study submissions can be found in Drotar, D. (2009). Editorial: Case Studies and Series: A Call for Action and Invitation for Submissions, Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 34, 795–802. Commentaries should not exceed 4 pages, including references. Commentaries are invited on all topics of interest in pediatric psychology. The clinical relevance of research should be incorporated into the manuscripts. There is no special section on clinical implications, but authors should integrate implications for practice, as appropriate, into papers. Authors should indicate in the Method section of relevant manuscripts how informed consent was obtained and report the approval of the study by the appropriate Institutional Review Board(s).
Authors will also be asked to sign a statement, provided by the Editor, that they have complied with the American Psychological Association Ethical Principles, with regard to the treatment of their sample. People first language: Terminology should be sensitive to the individual who has a disease or disability. The Editors endorse the concept of ‘‘people first, not their disability.’’ Terminology should reflect the ‘‘person with a disability’’ (e.g., children with diabetes, person with HIV infection, families of children with cancer) rather than the condition as an adjective (e.g., diabetic children, HIV patients, cancer familes). Nonsexist language should be used. Specific policies: Please consult the Web site for important information concerning JPP editorial policy including authors’ checklist for manuscript submissions, standards for reporting randomized trials CONSORT, standards for nonrandomized trials (TREND), new criteria and checklist for measure development papers and review articles, reviewers’ checklist, and policy for mentoring of junior reviewers, as well as submissions to other journals and inclusion of information from the same or related data sets. Conflict of interest policy: Please consult the Web site for JPP’s policy for conflict of interest for reviewers, editors, and authors. Manuscripts that do not conform to these guidelines will be returned to the authors for revision prior to peer review. Manuscripts must be submitted electronically online through the journal’s online submission Web site at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jpepsy. Further instructions for preparation and submission of manuscripts can be found on the journal’s Web site at www.jpepsy.oxfordjournals.org. The surface mailing address for other correspondence to the editorial office: Grayson N. Holmbeck, PhD, Loyola University Chicago, Department of Psychology, 1032 W. Sheridan Rd., Chicago, IL 60660; email: [email protected]. Submission is a representation that the work has not been published previously and is not currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. Authors should indicate in their cover letter that these conditions have been met. The relationship of the submitted manuscript with other publications or submissions of the author(s), if any, should be explained. Complete guidance for submission and review of multiple publications from the same study is found in Drotar (2010), Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 35(3), 225–230. The cover letter should also include a statement indicating that the aper has been seen and approved by pall authors. The full mailing address, telephone, fax and e-mail address should be included in the cover letter. The journal makes no page charges. Authors will receive a URL (via e-mail) for free access to their article online. Reprints may be ordered when page proofs are sent to authors. A statement transferring copyright to the Society of Pediatric Psychology will be required before the paper can be accepted for publication. Such a written transfer of copyright is necessary under the U.S. Copyright Law in order for the journal to be disseminated widely and effectively.
Funding sources: Details of all funding sources for the work in question should be given in a separate section entitled ‘‘Funding.’’ This should appear before the ‘‘Acknowledgments’’ section. The following rules should be followed: the full official funding agency name should be given, i.e., National Institutes of Health, not NIH; grant numbers should be given in brackets; multiple grant numbers should be separated by a comma; agencies should be separated by a semicolon; no extra wording like ‘‘Funding for this work was provided by . . .’’ should be used; where individuals need to be specified for certain sources of funding the following text should be added after the relevant agency or grant number ‘‘to [author initials].’’ An example is given here: National Institutes of Health (CB5453961 to C.S., DB645473 to M.H.); Funding Agency (hfygr667789). Details of all funding sources for the work in question should be given in a separate section entitled ‘‘Funding.’’ This should appear before the ‘‘Acknowledgments’’ section. The following rules should be followed: the full official funding agency name should be given, i.e., ‘‘National Institutes of Health,’’ not ‘‘NIH’’; grant numbers should be given in brackets; multiple grant numbers should be separated by a comma; agencies should be separated by a semicolon; no extra wording like ‘‘Funding for this work was provided by . . .’’ should be used; where individuals need to be specified for certain sources of funding the following text should be added after the relevant agency or grant number ‘‘to [author initials].’’ An example is given here: ‘‘National Institutes of Health (CB5453961 to C.S., DB645473 to M.H.); Funding Agency (hfygr667789).’’ Permission to reproduce copyright material, for print and online publication in perpetuity, must be cleared and if necessary paid for by the author; this includes applications and payments to DACS, ARS, and similar licensing agencies where appropriate. Evidence in writing that such permissions have been secured from the rights-holder must be made available to the editors. It is also the author’s responsibility to include acknowledgements as stipulated by the particular institutions. Oxford Journals can offer information and documentation to assist authors in securing print and online permissions: please see the Guidelines for Authors section (http://www.oxfordjournals.org/access_ purchase/rights_permissions.html). Information on permissions contacts for a number of main galleries and museums can also be provided. Should you require copies of this, please contact the editorial office of the journal in question or the Oxford Journals Rights department(journals.permissions@ oup.com). NIH Public Access Policy from April 2007 and Author Self-Archiving Policy from May 2005. For information about the NIH Public Access Policy (for manuscripts that reflect NIH-funded research) see the JPP website (http://www.jpepsy.oxfordjournals .org). For information about the Author SelfArchiving/Policy, please visit this page at http://www.oxfordjournals.org/access_ purchase/self-archiving-policya.html.
Instructions to Authors
An Official Journal of the Society of Pediatric Psychology, Division 54 of the American Psychological Association Editor Grayson N. Holmbeck, PhD, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL Associate Editors Dean W. Beebe, PhD, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH John V. Lavigne, PhD, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL Tonya M. Palermo, PhD, University of Washington School of Medicine and Seattle Children’s Hospital Lori J. Stark, PhD, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH Ric G. Steele, PhD, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS Tim Wysocki, PhD, Nemours Children’s Clinic, Jacksonville, FL Historian Anne E. Kazak, PhD, Nemours Children’s Health System, Wilmington, DE Editorial Assistant Susan Wood, Cleveland, OH Editorial Board Melissa Alderfer, PhD, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA Robert D. Annett, PhD, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM Brandon S. Aylward, PhD, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH Glen P. Aylward, PhD, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, IL Lamia P. Barakat, PhD, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA Kristoffer S. Berlin, PhD, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN Maureen M. Black, PhD, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD Ronald L. Blount, PhD, University of Georgia, Athens, GA Richard E. Boles, PhD, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO Ronald Brown, PhD, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI Joseph P. Bush, PhD, Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, CA Kelly C. Byars, PhD, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH Cathy Catroppa, PhD, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia Christine T. Chambers, PhD, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Jill MacLaren Chorney, PhD, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Lisa M. Clifford, PhD, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL Lindsey L. Cohen, PhD, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV Mark Connelly, PhD, Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, Kansas City, KS Christopher C. Cushing, PhD, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS Amy L. Damashek, PhD, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI Ann McGrath Davis, PhD, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, MO Katie Devine, PhD, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY David DiLillo, PhD, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE Kimberly Driscoll, PhD, Florida State University College, Tallahassee, FL Danny C. Duke, PhD, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR Christina L. Duncan, PhD, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV Deborah Ellis, PhD, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI David Fedele, PhD, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL Kurt Freeman, PhD, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR Deborah Friedman, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MD Bernard Fuemmeler, PhD, Duke University, Durham, NC Cindy Gerhardt, PhD, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH Jordan Gilleland, PhD, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA Wendy Gray, PhD, Auburn University, Auburn, AL Leilani Greening, PhD, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS Rachel Neff Greenley, PhD, Rosalind Franklin University, Chicago, IL Wendy Hadley, PhD, Brown University Medical School, Providence, RI
Anthony A. Hains, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI Chantelle Hart, PhD, The Miriam Hospital & Brown Medical School, Providence Vicki S. Helgeson, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA Marisa Hilliard, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX Amy S. Lewandowski Holley, PhD, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR Kevin A. Hommel, PhD, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH Korey Hood, PhD, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA Joyce Hopkins, PhD, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL Christopher D. Houck, PhD, Brown Medical School/Bradley Hasbro Children’s Research Center, Providence, RI Lisa M. Ingerski, MS, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN Barbara Jandasek, PhD, Alpert Medical School of Brown University/Bradley Hasbro Children’s Research Center, Providence, RI David M. Janicke, PhD, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL Sarah Jaser, PhD, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN Elissa Jelalian, PhD, Brown Medical School/Bradley Hasbro Children’s Research Center, Providence, RI Chad D. Jensen, PhD, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT Deborah Jones, PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC Jodi Kamps, PhD, Children’s Hospital, New Orleans, LA Bryan T. Karazsia, PhD, College of Wooster, Wooster, OH Astrida Seja Kaugars, PhD, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI Anne E. Kazak, PhD, Nemours Children’s Health System, Wilmington, DE Jessica Kichler, PhD, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH William Kronenberger, PhD, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN Ian Kudel, PhD, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH Annette M. La Greca, PhD, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL Emily Law, PhD, University of Washington School of Medicine and Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, WA Kathleen L. Lemanek, PhD, Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH Celia Lescano, PhD, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL Karen Liller, PhD, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL Deirdre Logan, PhD, Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA Eleanor Mackey, PhD, Children’s National Health System, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC Sunnye Mayes, PhD, ABPP, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK Elizabeth McQuaid, PhD, Brown University, Providence, RI Robyn Mehlenbeck, PhD, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA Aaron Metzger, PhD, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV Victoria Miller, PhD, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA Avani Modi, PhD, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
Barbara Morrongiello, PhD, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, CANADA Larry L. Mullins, PhD, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK Timothy Nelson, PhD, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE Melanie Noel, PhD, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, WA Lisa Opipari-Arrigan, PhD, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center/University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH Ahna Pai, PhD, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH Debra L. Palmer, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Stevens Point, WI Jennifer Shroff Pendley, PhD, Dupont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, DE Sean Phipps, PhD, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN Michael A. Rapoff, PhD, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS Joseph R. Rausch, PhD, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH Graham Reid, PhD, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario Jennifer Reiter-Purtill, PhD, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio Kristin Riekert, PhD, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD Michael C. Roberts, PhD, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS Paul M. Robins, PhD, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA David E. Sandberg, PhD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Amy Sato, PhD, Kent State University, Kent, OH Jennifer Verrill Schurman, PhD, ABPP, BCB, Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, Kansas City, MO Lisa Anne Schwartz, PhD, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA David C. Schwebel, PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL Mariella M. Self, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine & Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX Laura E. Simons, PhD, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA Terry Stancin, PhD, MetroHealth Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio Randi Streisand, PhD, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC Kenneth Tercyak, PhD, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC Jason Van Allen, PhD, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX Carl L. von Baeyer, PhD, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, CA Deborah Waber, PhD, Children’s Hospital Boston/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA Jill Weissberg-Benchell, PhD, Children’s Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL Deborah Wiebe, PhD, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX Anna Camille Wilson, PhD, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR Ericka Wodka, PhD, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD Yelena Wu, PhD, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT Keith O. Yeates, PhD, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada Kathy Zebracki, PhD, Shriners Hospitals for Children, Chicago and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Officers of the Society of Pediatric Psychology
Sharon Berry, PhD, ABPP, President; Elissa Jelalian, PhD, Past President; Celia Lescano, PhD, President Elect; Christine Chambers, PhD, Secretary; T. David Elkin, PhD, ABPP, Treasurer; Jennifer V. Schurman, PhD, ABPP, Member-at-Large; Jessica M. Valenzuela, PhD, Member-at-Large; Wendy L. Ward, PhD, ABPP, Member-at-Large; Eleanor Mackey, PhD, Member-at-Large; Anne Kazak, PhD, ABPP, APA Council Representative; Jennifer Shroff Pendley, PhD, Editor, Clinical Practice in Pediatric Psychology; Laura Simons, PhD, Editor, Progress Notes (newsletter); Anne Kazak, PhD, ABPP, Historian; Elizabeth Pulgaron, PhD, APA Program Chair; Jaclyn L. Papadakis, MA, ˜o-Ferna´ndez, PhD, SPP Annual Conference Program Chair Student Representative; Bryan Karazsia, PhD, Web Master and Listserv Manager; Anna Maria Patin
The main emphasis of the journal is on original research. Analytical reviews of research, scholarly case studies, and commentaries are also considered for publication. The JPP Web site (www.jpepsy.oxfordjournals.org) includes book reviews in addition to general information on the journal. Submissions are welcomed from authors in psychology and other disciplines serving children and families. Manuscript preparation: Manuscripts (text, references, tables, figures, etc.) should be prepared in detailed accord with the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.). There are two exceptions: (a) The academic degrees of authors should be placed on the title page following their names, and (b) a structured abstract of 150 words should be included. The abstract should include the following parts: Objective (brief statement of the purpose of the study); Methods (summary of the participants, (the design, measures, procedure); Results primary findings of this work); and Conclusions (statement of implications of these data). Key words should be included, consistent with APA style. Submissions should be double-spaced throughout, with margins of at least 1 inch and font size of 12 points (or 26 lines per page, 12–15 characters per inch). Authors should remove all identifying information from the body of the manuscript so that peer reviewers will be unable to recognize the authors and their affiliations. E-mail addresses should be included in the author note. Original research articles should not exceed 25 pages, in total, including title page, references, figures, tables, etc. In the case of papers that report on multiple studies or those with methodologies that necessitate detailed explanation, the authors should justify longer manuscript length to the Editor in the cover letter. Scholarly reviews should not exceed 30 pages total. Case reports should not exceed 20 pages. Case reports are appropriate to document the efficacy of new treatment applications, describe new clinical phenomena, to develop hypotheses, to illustrate methodological issues, difficult diagnoses, novel treatment approaches, and to identify unmet clinical or research needs. Guidelines for case study submissions can be found in Drotar, D. (2009). Editorial: Case Studies and Series: A Call for Action and Invitation for Submissions, Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 34, 795–802. Commentaries should not exceed 4 pages, including references. Commentaries are invited on all topics of interest in pediatric psychology. The clinical relevance of research should be incorporated into the manuscripts. There is no special section on clinical implications, but authors should integrate implications for practice, as appropriate, into papers. Authors should indicate in the Method section of relevant manuscripts how informed consent was obtained and report the approval of the study by the appropriate Institutional Review Board(s).
Authors will also be asked to sign a statement, provided by the Editor, that they have complied with the American Psychological Association Ethical Principles, with regard to the treatment of their sample. People first language: Terminology should be sensitive to the individual who has a disease or disability. The Editors endorse the concept of ‘‘people first, not their disability.’’ Terminology should reflect the ‘‘person with a disability’’ (e.g., children with diabetes, person with HIV infection, families of children with cancer) rather than the condition as an adjective (e.g., diabetic children, HIV patients, cancer familes). Nonsexist language should be used. Specific policies: Please consult the Web site for important information concerning JPP editorial policy including authors’ checklist for manuscript submissions, standards for reporting randomized trials CONSORT, standards for nonrandomized trials (TREND), new criteria and checklist for measure development papers and review articles, reviewers’ checklist, and policy for mentoring of junior reviewers, as well as submissions to other journals and inclusion of information from the same or related data sets. Conflict of interest policy: Please consult the Web site for JPP’s policy for conflict of interest for reviewers, editors, and authors. Manuscripts that do not conform to these guidelines will be returned to the authors for revision prior to peer review. Manuscripts must be submitted electronically online through the journal’s online submission Web site at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jpepsy. Further instructions for preparation and submission of manuscripts can be found on the journal’s Web site at www.jpepsy.oxfordjournals.org. The surface mailing address for other correspondence to the editorial office: Grayson N. Holmbeck, PhD, Loyola University Chicago, Department of Psychology, 1032 W. Sheridan Rd., Chicago, IL 60660; email: [email protected]. Submission is a representation that the work has not been published previously and is not currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. Authors should indicate in their cover letter that these conditions have been met. The relationship of the submitted manuscript with other publications or submissions of the author(s), if any, should be explained. Complete guidance for submission and review of multiple publications from the same study is found in Drotar (2010), Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 35(3), 225–230. The cover letter should also include a statement indicating that the aper has been seen and approved by pall authors. The full mailing address, telephone, fax and e-mail address should be included in the cover letter. The journal makes no page charges. Authors will receive a URL (via e-mail) for free access to their article online. Reprints may be ordered when page proofs are sent to authors. A statement transferring copyright to the Society of Pediatric Psychology will be required before the paper can be accepted for publication. Such a written transfer of copyright is necessary under the U.S. Copyright Law in order for the journal to be disseminated widely and effectively.
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