The call is posted below and can also be
accessed at the following:
Please feel free to contact the guest editors, Greg
Townley:
gtownley@pdx.edu or
John Sylvestre: jsylvest@uottawa.ca. Please also feel free to disseminate this
call widely.
Best wishes,
Greg Townley and John Sylvestre
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Transformative Change in Community Mental Health
A special issue of The Global Journal of Community
Psychology Practice
(GJCPP)
Guest editors: Greg Townley and John Sylvestre
Send proposal submissions or inquiries to the Guest
Editors:
In many parts of the world, community psychology has
historical roots in the field of mental health (Reich, Riemer, Prilleltensky,
& Montero, 2007). Community psychologists have made important and innovate
contributions in helping people with psychiatric disabilities, including George
Fairweather’s Lodge program in the 1960s, Ed Seidman and Julian Rappaport’s
work with the GROW mutual aid organization in the 1980s, and Sam Tsemberis and
Beth Shinn’s work on Housing First in the 1990s. More recently, community
psychologists led by Bret Kloos at the University of South Carolina, Geoffrey
Nelson at Wilfrid Laurier University, and José Ornelas at Instituto Superior
Psicologia Aplicada have developed the International Network for Transformative
Change in Community Mental Health. This network has grown to include an
international group of academics and graduate students who are seeking to
establish an alternative paradigm to the promotion of mental health based in
community settings upon the values of citizenship, recovery, empowerment,
inclusion, and social justice.
This special issue aims to advance scholarship and
critical thought regarding transformative changes in community mental health.
Submission of Proposals
Proposals for manuscripts and creative projects (up to
500 words) are invited which address this aim.
Possible topic areas include, but are not limited to:
(1) Transforming
mental health services and systems of care
(2) Proposing new
goals for mental health promotion and intervention
(3) Methods and
projects focused on promoting user involvement and
user leadership in research
(4) Broadening
partnerships to promote mental health in community settings
(5) The
comparison of mental health approaches in different
cultural/ national contexts
(6) Specific
contributions that community psychology can make to
community mental health
Manuscripts may be empirical studies or praxis-oriented
pieces. We also welcome proposals for creative projects that reflect the aims
of this special issue, including videos and interviews with key stakeholders
involved in transformative change in community mental health. Proposals for
book reviews, tools, and other multimedia formats will also be accepted. In
addition to contributions from community psychologists, we are interested in
papers authored by or including the perspectives of mental health consumers/
survivors/ users, practitioners, policy makers, and researchers in other fields
or disciplines who are doing related work.
Format for Proposals
Proposals should include a title for the submission, a
list of authors, and a 500 word description of the content of the proposed
submission. The description should clearly describe the contribution of the
work to our understanding of the strategies, processes or outcomes of
transformative change in community mental health systems.
Deadline for Submission of Proposals
Authors should submit proposals by email to the Guest
Editors of the Special Issue no later than July 8, 2013. All proposals should be in English language.
Guest editors will review the proposals and advise
authors whether their proposals were successful within 4 to 5 weeks. Deadline
for submission of full manuscripts is planned for October or November, 2013.
All full manuscripts will be peer reviewed consistent with GJCCP guidelines for
reviewers. Full manuscript submissions should follow the guidelines provided in
the GJCCP instructions for authors available online (http://www.gjcpp.org/submissions.php).
For Information or to Submit a Proposal:
Send proposal submissions or inquiries to the Guest
Editors: Greg
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Vincent T Francisco, PhD
Associate Professor, Public Health Education Editor,
Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice The Univ. of North Carolina at
Greensboro
437 HHP Building, P.O. Box 26170
Greensboro, NC 27402-6170
voice: 336.334.5520, Fax: 336.334.3238
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