Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science

期刊简介：The Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science is the official journal of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS). Contextual Behavioral Science is a systematic and pragmatic approach to the understanding of behavior, the solution of human problems, and the promotion of human growth and development. Contextual Behavioral Science uses functional principles and theories to analyze and modify action embedded in its historical and situational context. The goal is to predict and influence behavior, with precision, scope, and depth, across all behavioral domains and all levels of analysis, so as to help create a behavioral science that is more adequate to the challenge of the human condition. Contextual behavioral science is a strategic approach to the analysis of human behavior that proposes the need for a multi-level (e.g. social factors, neurological factors, behavioral factors) and multi-method (e.g., time series analyses, cross-sectional, experimental) exploration of contextual and manipulable variables relevant to the prediction and influence of human behavior. The journal considers papers relevant to a contextual behavioral approach including: Empirical studies (without topical restriction - e.g., clinical psychology, psychopathology, education, organizational psychology, etc.) Brief reports on preliminary, but still impactful findings (e.g., pilot studies, cross-sectional research on psychological flexibility processes) Reviews (e.g., scoping reviews, systematic reviews, meta-analyses) Conceptual and philosophical papers on contextual behavioral science Practical innovations (descriptions of practical innovation applying contextual behavioral science) Commentaries Registered reports We are particularly interested in: Papers that examine theories and interventions based in CBS (e.g., process-based therapy, acceptance & commitment therapy, relational frame theory, functional analytic psychotherapy, compassion-focused therapy, etc...) to novel research areas with rigorous methodologies. We currently are especially interested in increasing the number of published articles on basic CBS research and translational research. Papers bridging different approaches (e.g., connecting behavioral approaches with cognitive views; or neurocognitive psychology; or evolutionary science) Papers that challenge a contextual behavioral science approach from an informed perspective Papers that are written from the perspective of and/or report data collected from diverse, underrepresented, and minoritized individuals. The journal welcomes papers written by researchers, practitioners, and theoreticians from different intellectual traditions. What is distinctive is not a narrowly defined theory or set of applied methods but whether the methodology, conceptualization, or strategy employed is relevant to a contextual behavioral approach. JCBS has been receiving an increasing number of submissions that compete for limited space for publication. A notable portion of submissions to JCBS are cross-sectional survey studies on psychological flexibility-related processes (e.g., validating these measures, testing their relation to mental health and related outcomes). In order to balance research on these topics with other important methodologies and research areas of CBS, we are unfortunately only able to accept especially innovative and rigorous research using cross-sectional survey designs, and typically only when submitted as a brief report. Special Issues The Journal welcomes suggestions for Special Issues. Proposals for a themed Special Issue should be sent to the Editor-in-Chief, Michael Levin at [email protected], and should include suggested Executive, Advisory or Guest Editors, a proposed call-for-papers, 6-10 provisional authors and topics (specific titles or general areas), a proposed timeline for submission, peer-reviewing, revision and publication. All manuscripts in a special issue will be subject to the normal process of peer-review.

【译文】《情境行为科学杂志》是情境行为科学协会（ACBS）的官方期刊。情境行为科学是理解行为、解决人类问题、促进人类成长和发展的系统和务实的方法。情境行为科学使用功能原理和理论来分析和修改嵌入其历史和情境背景中的行为。其目标是在所有行为领域和所有分析层次上精确、广泛和深入地预测和影响行为，从而帮助创建更适合人类状况挑战的行为科学。情境行为科学是分析人类行为的一种战略方法，它提出需要对与人类行为的预测和影响相关的情境和可操作变量进行多层次（例如社会因素、神经因素、行为因素）和多方法（例如时间序列分析、横断面、实验）探索。该期刊认为与情境行为方法相关的论文包括： 实证研究（没有主题限制 - 例如，临床心理学、精神病理学、教育、组织心理学等） 关于初步但仍然有影响力的发现的简短报告（例如，试点研究、心理灵活性过程的横断面研究） 评论（例如，范围界定评论、系统评论、荟萃分析） 关于情境行为科学的概念和哲学论文 实践创新（描述应用情境行为科学的实践创新）评论注册报告我们特别感兴趣的是：以严格的方法论检验基于 CBS 的理论和干预措施（例如基于过程的治疗、接受与承诺治疗、关系框架理论、功能分析心理治疗、同情聚焦治疗等...）到新颖研究领域的论文。目前，我们对增加 CBS 基础研究和转化研究的发表文章数量特别感兴趣。连接不同方法的论文（例如，将行为方法与认知观点联系起来；或神经认知心理学；或进化科学） 从知情的角度挑战情境行为科学方法的论文 从多元化、代表性不足和少数群体收集的数据的角度撰写的论文和/或报告数据。该杂志欢迎来自不同知识传统的研究人员、实践者和理论家撰写的论文。与众不同的不是狭义定义的理论或一组应用方法，而是所采用的方法、概念化或策略是否与情境行为方法相关。 JCBS 收到越来越多的来稿，争夺有限的出版空间。向 JCBS 提交的材料中值得注意的一部分是关于心理灵活性相关过程的横断面调查研究（例如，验证这些措施、测试它们与心理健康和相关结果的关系）。为了平衡这些主题的研究与 CBS 的其他重要方法和研究领域，不幸的是，我们只能接受使用横断面调查设计的特别创新和严格的研究，并且通常只能以简短报告的形式提交。特刊 本刊欢迎对特刊提出建议。主题特刊的提案应发送至主编 Michael Levin（电子邮件受保护），并应包括建议的执行编辑、顾问编辑或客座编辑、拟议的论文征集、6-10 名临时作者和主题（特定标题或一般领域）、拟议的提交、同行评审、修订和出版时间表。特刊中的所有手稿都将接受正常的同行评审过程。