Collection

Psychological Injury and Law: A Retrospective Collection on Psychological Injury and Law Articles, Precedents, and Prospects

Submission status
Open
Open for submission from
18 July 2023
Submission deadline
Ongoing

Dear Research Community,

Kindly excuse the cross-posting

Psychological Injury and Law (PIAL) is celebrating its 15-year anniversary with a call for submissions for a curated topical collection.

The submitted articles will be peer-reviewed, like all others, but, if accepted will be tagged as part of the collection, gaining visibility for the authors and journal.

We are seeking submissions that place in context scholarship and research in specific domains in the area of psychological injury and law, as per the sections of the journal. Submissions are ongoing without a closing date, unlike for special issues. However, we aim to start publishing online articles that are accepted as they arrive and wish to have submissions arrive in 2024.

Submissions should include historical context, indicating the state of the field 15 years ago. Reviewing articles from those early years onward (e.g., on trauma, TBI, chronic pain, PTSD, assessment, testing, certain tests, PVTs, SVTs, malingering, forensics, disability, law), while adding contemporary developments and directions for research, will serve the collection well. In addition, cutting edge empirical research that speaks to broad issues in the field fit the collection. Finally, we seek concept articles that help move the field forward. Ultimately, a major goal of the collection is that it serves as a resource for researchers, practitioners, and court in this advancing but contested area of psychology and law.

In that this will be an anniversary collection, it could also be interesting to have authors from top cited and downloaded PIAL articles reflect on their contribution to the field, giving updates since the initial publication of their paper, etc. This could be an original way to renew interest in these articles and benefit the journal.

There will be an internal call made to section heads as well as an external call for contributors. Section heads should follow the suggested format for the submissions, but could have broader scope, if required. External contributors might want to contact section heads in their area and offer to co-write.

Please consider contributing to the collection and contacting the Editor-in-Chief with your preliminary ideas.

Towards developing the curated collection in PIAL, we have included top-cited or focused articles from the first 15 years of the journal in the curated collection, per posting on the Springer platform for the journal, most of them being more recent, and hope to add at least 12 more.

We look forward to your response and contributions.

Best,

Gerry Young, gyoung@yorku.ca

Gerald Young, Ph.D., C. Psych.

Psychologist and Full Professor (Glendon College - York University)

Editor in Chief, Psychological Injury and Law (IF=3)

(416) 247-1625 Work

(416) 726-2709 Cell

(416) 247-3463 Fax

gyoung@glendon.yorku.ca

www.springer.com

Articles (14 in this collection)