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CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY
PUBLICATION POLICY
Christian Psychology
encourages scholars from all disciplines to submit research papers relevant to Christian Psychology.
Christian Psychology
is also especially interested in ideas for a discussion/focus article to be published at the beginning of an
issue and for an entire issue that explores a single theme of relevance to Christian Psychology. Well-written papers of any size
are welcomed. In other words, the journal has no word limits for submitted manuscripts.
Authors submitting a manuscript should:
• Use Microsoft Word software and follow the current style guidelines of the American Psychological Association.
• Include an abstract ranging between 150-250 words
• Include keywords (about 5)
• Include a biography (title, degree(s) and institution(s), specializations, etc.)
• Include a mailing address and email
Manuscripts, ideas for discussion articles, and book reviews can be emailed to Lydia Kim-van Daalen, Managing Editor of
Christian Psychology
at
.
Papers should be submitted as an email attachment. In the accompanying email, the author should guarantee that the at-
tached manuscript has not been previously published and that it is not under concurrent review by another journal.
All submitted contributions will be acknowledged and processed as quickly as possible. Placing of accepted articles is based on the
theme of a specific issue and potential backlog of contributions.
CHANGES
This issue of
Christian Psychology
(previously
Edification
) is the first without Paul J. Watson as the editor. As a result, I’d like
to take a moment to express my gratitude, on behalf of the Society, for Paul’s significant editorial labors over the past six
years. There are many things the Society has done for which I am thankful. However, I think it fair to say that our journal,
Christian Psychology
, is the Society’s single most important contribution to the world of psychology and counseling. And
this is due in no small measure to Paul’s efforts. His intelligence, high scholarly standards, Quaker spirit, tolerance of diverse
perspectives, research experience and unique research orientation (the Ideological-Surround Model), and his own Christian
commitments have made
Christian Psychology
a significant forum in the field and also given the Society a degree of cred-
ibility we would not have without it. Thanks Paul for your tireless (and sometimes thankless) efforts on behalf of the Society,
the Christian community, and the field of psychology.
Because of Paul’s retiring, we will have a few guest editors until the next editor is appointed. For the editor of this issue, we
welcome Peter Hampson. Formerly Professor of Psychology and Lecturer in Cognitive Psychology, and Head of the Depart-
ment of Psychology at the University of the West of England, he is currently a Fellow at Blackfriars Hall, the Dominican ac-
ademic community at Oxford University. His scholarly interests are the relation between theology and psychology; Thomist
anthropology and moral psychology; and religion, theology and transdisciplinarity in contemporary higher education. He is
currently collaborating with theology and psychology colleagues in Bristol, Oxford, and Virginia Commonwealth Universi-
ties on such areas of theology’s interdisciplinary relationships, and an empirical and conceptual study of moral behaviour
which combines an existential model with an integrated approach to character inspired by Aquinas. He also wrote the focus
article for
Edification 6.1
entitled, “The Role of Habitus in Christian Moral Psychology.”
The former name of our journal,
Edification
, is a central theme in the writings of the first avowed Christian psychologist,
Soren Kierkegaard. However, some of our supporters have complained that it sounds more like a name of a magazine than
an academic journal and that it doesn’t clearly express the purpose of our journal. So, we have decided to change the name
of our journal to ONE that directly expresses our agenda:
Christian Psychology
. We hope this will make it easier to find our
journal on-line and will encourage more authors supportive of the agenda of Christian psychology to submit articles.
Lydia Kim-van Daalen
Managing Editor,
Christian Psychology
Lydia Kim-van Daalen
