• Journal Mission:

• Improve mental, behavioral, and physical health by promoting clinical, counseling, health, and human development and family relationship research and practices based onthe best available research evidence.
• Identify interventions that are effective and implementable to individuals, families, andcommunities in diverse contexts.
• Develop clinical practice that are scientifically sound, clinically useful, and informativefor psychologists, social and behavioral scientists, health care professionals, humandevelopment and family relationship practitioners, training programs, policy makers, and the public.

• Journal Vision:

• Inform mental, behavioral and physical health and human development and family relationship knowledge and practice through research.
• Improve patient experiences of care and public health interventions and social services.
• Positively impact the effectiveness, quality, value, and delivery of healthcare and social services.
• Enhance training of psychologists, sociologists, behavioral scientists, health care professionals, and human development and family relationship practitioners.
• Capacity development of psychologists, social and behavioral scientists, health care professionals, and human development and family researchers.
• Educate psychology, sociology, behavioral health, and human development and family relationship researchers and practitioners, consumers, and policy makers about effective interventions.
• Guide future research by identifying gaps in the evidence base.
• Guiding Principles::
• The Journal of Clinical, Counseling, and Health Psychology is a multidisciplinary platform for sharing knowledge among social and psychological researchers and practitioners. Guided by the principles of its home institution, The Social Research Institute. The journal takes an evidence-based practice approach. Research in the area of psychology, sociology, behavioral sciences, and human development and family studies are published with a goal of revealing greater information, testing theory, generating knowledge, informing practice, shaping policy and programs, and influencing legislation.