RIVISTA DI PSICOLOGIA CLINICA

Rivista di Psicologia Clinica/Journal of Clinical Psychology (RPC) is an open access Journal, which publishes papers focused on any area of the Clinical Psychology as well as concerning its interdisciplinary interests.
Theoretical, review, empirical and case reports works are welcome, in all cases based on their quality in terms of innovation and methodological rigor. Case studies will be accepted if they use the intervention experience for modeling purposes.
RPC publishes articles in English and Italian, in the latter case when this choice is functional to the topic and/or is useful given the target audience. Articles in Italian will be placed in a specific section.
RPC adopts a double-blind peer review policy. It will also host a debate area, whose contributions will be subject to the evaluation of the Editorial Board only. As far, the idea is to keep the current mode of open access online publication.

RPC has a long and important history. Founded in 1982, it contributed to lay the grounds for clinical psychology to emerge as a distinct disciplinary field and a new professional area in Italy. RPC aims to be the driver of a view of clinical psychology characterized by the merge of two main theoretical and methodological tenets - A) a broad vision of the function of clinical psychology, according to which clinical psychology has to embrace the ambition to go beyond individual and micro-social issues, and encompass social and institutional phenomena as areas of interventions; B) a critique of the applicative and top-down view of the relation between knowledge and practice, and the corresponding proposal to conceptualize that relation in terms of a recursive dialectics.
RPC is designed to be an open space of debate, able to foster dialogue between the different souls and sensitivities of the Clinical Psychology, with a particular attention paid to the dialectic between research and intervention, the dialogue among theoretical and methodological frameworks, the analysis and the construction of strategies to address the emergent challenges that society provides to psychology and more in general to social sciences.
Accordingly, RPC can be meant to stand for the link between Research, Profession and Contexts. From 2022, RPC will have a new Editor in chief (EIC), a new group of Co-Editors, supported by a new Editorial Board (SC).

Editor-in-Chief
Sergio Salvatore (Università del Salento)

Co-editor
Fiorella Bucci (SPS Studio di Psicosociologia); Barbara Cordella (Sapienza Università di Roma); Maria Francesca Freda (Università di Napoli "Federico II"); Gianluca Lo Coco (Università di Palermo); Caterina Lombardo (Sapienza Università di Roma); Cinzia Novara (Università di Palermo); Annamaria Petito (Università di Foggia); Ruggero Andrisano Ruggieri (Università di Salerno); Adriano Schimmenti (Libera Università di Salerno "Kore"); Elena Vegni (Università degli Studi di Milano); Claudia Venuleo (Università del Salento)

Scientific Advisory Board
Evrinomy Avdi (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki); Gerhard Benetka (Sigmund Freud Privat Universität); Vincenzo Bochicchio (Università della Calabria); Angela Branco (Universidade de Brasília); Anna Buchheim (University of Innsbruck); Carla Cunha (ISMAI - Instituto Universitário da Maia); Raffaele De Luca Picione (Università Giustino Fortunato); Jack Drescher (Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research); Jutta Fiegl (Sigmund Freud Privat Universität); Omar Gelo (Università del Salento); Miguel Gonçalves (University of Minho); Rafael Jódar Anchía (Univeridad Pontificia Comillas); Hroar Klempe (NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology); Elias Kourkoutas (University of Crete); Vittorio Lingiardi (Sapienza Università di Roma); Anastassios Matsopoulos (University of Crete); Julia Menichetti Delor (University of Oslo); Nacho Montero (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid); Clara Mucci (Università di Bergamo); Daniela Nogueira (ISMAI - Instituto Universitário da Maia); Franco Orsucci (University College London - Norfolk and Suffolk NHS); Alfred Pritz (Sigmund Freud Privat Universität); Thomas Rihacek (Masaryk University); João Salgado (ISMAI - University Institute of Maia); Gordon Sammut (University of Malta); Alfonso Santarpia (Université de Sherbrooke); Jose' Saporta (Harvard Medical School); Gunter Schiepek (Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg); Wolfgang Tschacher (University of Bern ); Jaan Valsiner (Aalborg University); Patrizia Velotti (Sapienza Università di Roma); Alessandro Zennaro (Università di Torino); Tania Zittoun (University of Neuchâtel)

Contatti:
c/o FrancoAngeli, Via Savoia 80, 00198 Roma

Redazione:
rivistapsicologiaclinica@gmail.com

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Papers submitted to the journal are typically screened by the editor or one of the associate editors to determine whether the manuscript falls within Journal’s Aims and Scope and satisfies the academic standards of the field. Papers are then assigned to an editor who oversees the entire editorial process including the final decision on the manuscript. If judged suitable for publication, the manuscript is sent to at least two independent referees for double blind peer review. Based on their recommendation, as well as possible consultation between Editorial Board members, the editor decides whether the paper should be accepted as it is, revised or rejected.

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To publish the accepted papers authors are required to pay an article processing charge (APC) of € 1.500,00 (+ VAT).
Authors with no affiliation to research institutions are required to pay an article processing charge of € 100,00 (+ VAT). Junior and young researchers (< 40y) and/or authors from Eastern European, African, Latin American countries are required to pay an article processing charge of € 50,00 (+ VAT).
Invited papers are free.

Articles concerning individuals or containing personal information that makes a human subject identifiable must comply with the international standards set by the Declaration of Helsinki, developed by the World Medical Association (WMA) and revised in 2013.

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• Area 11 - Scienze storiche, filosofiche, pedagogiche e psicologiche

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