Canadian Psychology/Psychologie canadienne: Les quatre prochaines années.

When a new editorial team takes over responsibility for the important task of overseeing the production of a journal, it is critical, for both readers and those interested in publishing their scholarly work in the journal, that they clearly present their vision for the direction of the journal. Such a statement provides an opportunity for the editors to illustrate their plans for interpreting the journal's mandate in a manner that ensures continuity with previous volumes of the journal while also emphasizing areas of the mandate that may not have received the attention they deserve. This editorial is designed with these purposes in mind. In the following paragraphs, we will provide information on the structure and scope of the journal for the next four years, as well as practical information on how authors should interpret the mandate of the journal and submit their work to the journal. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

The 2003-2006 editorial team signs off.

The editorial team of Canadian Psychology/Psychologie Canadienne thanks the many authors who entrusted them with the evaluation of their work, everyone on the editorial team from Canada and around the world, ad-hoc reviewers, the CPA staff, and the editorial assistant. The work of all of these individuals is evident in every issue of the journal. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

L'équipe de rédaction de 2003-2006 tire sa révérence.

The editorial team of Canadian Psychology/Psychologie canadienne thanks the many authors who entrusted them with the evaluation of their work, everyone on the editorial team from Canada and around the world, ad-hoc reviewers, the CPA staff, and the editorial assistant. The work of all of these individuals is evident in every issue of the journal. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

A final word: The passing of the editorial mantle and some reflections on the field.

My task as editor of Developmental Psychology is complete with the publication of this issue. My editorship has spanned 6 years and six volumes of Developmental Psychology. This is a task that I described to a colleague as "unrelenting" and time consuming and at the same time highly rewarding and stimulating. It is difficult to imagine a vantage point that would yield a better "sense of the field" than editing a journal because you are at the center of the intellectual activity of the discipline. You see the best and sometimes the not so terrific articles being produced. I hope that we have selected well from the daily onslaught of submissions. It should be underscored that this journal, like all scientific journals, is, in the final analysis, community property. My associate editors and I are merely the short-term custodians of the community's vehicle. We are part of that scientific community before, during, and after. I am grateful for the opportunity to have been entrusted with this task. I am also looking forward to returning full time to the community so that I will have increased opportunity to contribute to this and other journals in the capacity of author once again! I am pleased to be succeeded as editor by Carolyn Zahn-Waxler, with whom I have had the pleasure of sharing the editorial duties over the past several years. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

By any other name.

Announces that beginning with this issue the Canadian Psychologist/Psychologie Canadienne becomes the Canadian Psychological Review/ Psychologie Canadienne to cap an editorial policy shift which has been in process over several years. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

éditorial sur le maintien du rayonnement de la psychologie canadienne dans l'étude du cerveau, du comportement et des sciences cognitives.

This editorial discusses the current issue of the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology: its contents, the new editorial team, editorial policies, and outreach. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Editorial.

Presents a reaffirmation of the goals of the Canadian Journal of Psychology. The primary objective of the Canadian Journal of Psychology is to provide a vehicle for the communication of scientific research in general experimental psychology. The editor hopes to encourage Canadian experimental psychologists to take pride in their Journal, and submit their quality work to it. The Journal will continue to maintain a small and selective book review section, and it will maintain its short report section. There is no question that there is ample material to fill the pages of the Journal and make it interesting. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Editor’s column—Success in Toronto.

Acknowledges some of the people responsible for the successful APA convention in Toronto, and presents some of the editorial goals and policies of the Consulting Psychology Journal. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

About Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy.

Associate editors Christine Courtois, Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, and I are honored to have had the opportunity to have overseen this, the inaugural issue of Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy (PT:TRPP), the official journal the APA Division of Psychological Trauma (56). Many of our colleagues have expressed their enthusiasm for the promise the journal holds to become an influential force in the field of trauma psychology. It is our intention to maximize this potential by employing it to facilitate several objectives. These objectives are discussed in this editorial. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

An editorial on maintaining the outreach of Canadian psychology through the study of the brain, behaviour, and cognitive science.

This editorial discusses the current issue of the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology: its contents, new editorial team, editorial policies, and outreach. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Editor’s column.

Discusses some of the activities of Consulting Psychology Journal during the months before and after APA's convention. The author briefly notes CPJ's financial state and some of CPJ's editorial goals. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

The golden anniversary symposium: CPA's first 50 years.

The author would like to say a few words about how this symposium was organized and how the participants were selected. When the author was asked to organize a session on the Association's history, it was suggested that the author should involve our past presidents as participants. Therefore, the author began by looking over the list of them in the Directory and discovered: there were 28 living and alert past presidents from whom to choose, all of them most attractive as potential participants and that selecting from among them was going to be very difficult. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Rehabilitation psychology: Exploring issues.

Rehabilitation Psychology has several goals. One of its primary functions is to disseminate information that promotes the effective use of knowledge. While really new and current developments in rehabilitation interventions having psychological components may be known to the reader long before discussion of them appears in Rehabilitation Psychology, few "new findings" are dealt with to everyone's complete satisfaction. Many opinions exist about the efficacy of most innovative strategies; these conflicting views often are diverse, if not controversial. Therefore, it is helpful to provide professionals a forum in which they can discuss a problem and offer different viewpoints and perspectives that promote its resolution. I hope to make the journal such a forum within which these varying viewpoints can be heard. As Editor, I view Rehabilitation Psychology as being the single most significant organ through which the field can acquire additional clarity and identity. I view the role of Editor as being similar to that of a gatekeeper. The role entails major responsibility for ensuring that clinicians and academicians have an opportunity to present their findings and their opinions about critical issues facing the field. It is a role I hope to fulfill with competence and sensitivity. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Review of Readings in General Psychology: Canadian Contributions.

Reviews the book, Readings in General Psychology: Canadian Contributions by A. W. Pressey and J. P. Zubek (1970). A collection of seventy articles, sixty-eight of which are written by Canadian psychologists and other psychologists resident at some point in Canada, comprise the content of this set of readings. Two other contributions are by distinguished Canadian physicians. The organization of the book is in fourteen parts following the traditional divisions of an introductory text in psychology. The articles are from a variety of places but predominantly from the Canadian Journal of Psychology. Others are from such prestigious sources as Science and Nature. First-course instructors will find the "readings" well worth examining. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

School Psychology Quarterly: A vision for the future from the new editor.

It is both a great honor and an exciting professional challenge to take on the responsibility of Editor for School Psychology Quarterly. My motivations for serving in this capacity stem from my fundamental belief that high-quality scholarship is essential to the health and vigor of school psychology. The mission I envision for the Quarterly is to be out in front of our field breaking new scientific, intellectual, and professional ground for the future, helping school psychology to "be all that it can be." At the macro-level, I have two clear objectives. First, I want to build on the very best accomplishments of my predecessors, Tom Kratochwill and Joe Witt, reinforcing foundational elements crucial to the journal's success. Second, and perhaps more importantly, I want to raise the Quarterly to a new level of excellence. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Review of Readings in General Psychology: Canadian Contributions.

This reprinted article originally appeared in Canadian Psychologist, 1971, Vol 12(1), 87-89. (The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 2007-02140-023.) Reviews the book, Readings in General Psychology: Canadian Contributions by A. W. Pressey and J. P. Zubek (1970). A collection of seventy articles, sixty-eight of which are written by Canadian psychologists and other psychologists resident at some point in Canada, comprise the content of this set of readings. Two other contributions are by distinguished Canadian physicians. The organization of the book is in fourteen parts following the traditional divisions of an introductory text in psychology. The articles are from a variety of places but predominantly from the Canadian Journal of Psychology. Others are from such prestigious sources as Science and Nature. First-course instructors will find the "readings" well worth examining. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)