The journal runs original articles on the development of theoretical and clinical knowledge in cognitive-behavioural psychotherapy.
Psicoterapia Cognitiva e Comportamentale mainly deals with the applications of cognitive-behavioural methodologies for individuals, families and groups of organisations, in addition to clinical assessment, behavioural medicine, rehabilitation, methodology, «analogical» research, basic research and interdisciplinary research relevant to psychotherapy.
The journal aims to disseminate the multiple aspects and diverse branches of Italian cognitive-behavioural psychotherapy.
Psicoterapia Cognitiva e Comportamentale occasionally hosts representative international papers; furthermore it aims to promulgate awareness of the remote roots of the cognitive-behavioural approach, hosting, in a special section, the anastatic reprints of works of historical significance.
Psicoterapia Cognitiva e Comportamentale is indexed in the following databases: SCOPUS, EBSCO, EMBASE, Psychological abstracts, Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection, PsycSCAN: Behavior Analysis & Therapy, PsycINFO, PsycLIT, ClinPSYC.
The journal publishes different types of articles, organised into the following sections:
– Research: section dedicated to research papers;
– Theory: critical reviews and other articles focusing on the theoretical development of the subject;
– Clinical cases: articles which describe specific cases encountered in clinical practice;
– Research protocols: brief summaries of research protocols, which are published in order to both encourage collaboration and polyhedral research and to share current research with the vaster community of interested parties;
– News regarding the profession and other relevant topics.
In addition to the above, Psicoterapia cognitiva e comportamentale tends to stimulate critical engagement, providing opportunities for debate in the Forum section. It also aims to promulgate awareness of the remote roots of the cognitive-behavioural approach, hosting, in a special section called Historical archives, the reprints of works of historical significance.
ISSN Printed version: 1126-1072
ISSN Digital version: 2724-0827
Journal registration number 1262/2005 (Court of Trento)
