JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY AND BEHAVIORAL ASSESSMENT

The journal publishes articles on research investigations that enhance understanding of psychopathology and mental disorders applicable to all ages, deviant or abnormal behaviors, including those related to medical conditions and trauma, and constructs descriptive of personality. It fosters inquiry into assessment, description, and classification of normal and abnormal behaviors, psychobiological factors predisposing, precipitating, and maintaining psychopathology, and theories of psychopathology and behavior change.Coverage spans studies of normal personality constructs and positive personal attributes, personal and environmental factors influencing behavioral outcomes, and interactive models of cognitive, emotional, and behavior resource factors as impacting normal and abnormal behaviors.The journal includes articles focusing on therapeutic interventions and accepts reviews, particurlary meta-analytic reviews.

该杂志发表了关于研究调查的文章，以增进对适用于所有年龄层、异常或异常行为(包括与医疗条件和创伤有关的行为)的精神病理学和精神障碍的理解，并构建了人格描述。它促进了对正常和异常行为的评估、描述和分类、心理生物学因素诱发、诱发和维持心理病理学以及心理病理学和行为变化理论的探究。研究范围包括正常人格结构和积极的个人属性，影响行为结果的个人和环境因素，以及影响正常和异常行为的认知、情感和行为资源因素的交互模型。该杂志包括关注治疗干预的文章，并接受评论，部分元分析评论。