CBT Journals for Mental Health Professionals and Students
These International Journals offer some of the best CBT findings available including:
- empirical research,
- single-case designs
- focus on application and implementation
- experimental and clinical contributions
- reviews of recently published literature
- and reports on new treatments
Our Recommendations
BEHAVIOR THERAPY
- Application of behavioral and cognitive sciences to clinical problems
- International journal – published 6/year
- Major emphasis on empirical research, methodological & theoretical papers
- Evaluative reviews of the literature
- Controlled single-case designs
- Clinical replication series welcome
- Published by Elsevier on behalf of Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT)
Editor: Denise M. Sloan, National Center for PTSD Behavioural Sciences Division, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
COGNITIVE & BEHAVIORAL PRACTICE
- Primary mission is clinical dissemination
- Quarterly international journal
- Bridge gap between published clinical research / actual clinical CBT practice
- Primary focus is application and implementation of procedures
- Articles contain clinical interventions, client-therapist dialogue
- Special series, clinical commentaries, book reviews
- Published by Elsevier on behalf of Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT)
Editor: Brian Chu, PhD, Rutgers University Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA
BEHAVIOURAL & COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
- Aimed primarily at members of the helping and teaching professions
- Interdisciplinary peer reviewed journal – 6 issues/ year
- Features original research
- Experimental and clinical contributions to theory, practice and evolution of CBT
- Includes review of recently published literature in the CBT field
- Being a BABCP member entitles you to access the journals online at the Cambridge University Press (CUP) website
Editor: Paul M Salkovskis, Oxford Institute of Clinical Psychology Training, Oxford, UK
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE THERAPY
- The Official Journal of the International Association of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy (IACBT) – free with membership. 4 issues / year
- Members of the Academy of Cognitive Psychotherapy (ACT) receive a 30% subscription savings
- See issues from 2008-2018 (Guilford Press)
- See issues since 2018 (Springer)
Editor-in-Chief: John Riskin, PhD, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA