The major focus of Behaviour Research and Therapy is an experimental psychopathology approach to understanding emotional and behavioral disorders and their prevention and treatment, using cognitive, behavioral, and psychophysiological (including neural) methods and models. This includes laboratory-based experimental studies with healthy, at risk and subclinical individuals that inform clinical application as well as studies with clinically severe samples. The following types of submissions are encouraged: theoretical reviews of mechanisms that contribute to psychopathology and that offer new treatment targets; tests of novel, mechanistically focused psychological interventions, especially ones that include theory-driven or experimentally-derived predictors, moderators and mediators; and innovations in dissemination and implementation of evidence-based practices into clinical practice in psychology and associated fields, especially those that target underlying mechanisms or focus on novel approaches to treatment delivery. In addition to traditional psychological disorders, the scope of the journal includes behavioural medicine (e.g., chronic pain). The journal will not consider manuscripts dealing primarily with measurement, psychometric analyses, and personality assessment.

行为研究和治疗的主要焦点是一种实验性的心理病理学方法，通过认知、行为和心理生理（包括神经）方法和模型来了解情绪和行为障碍及其预防和治疗。这包括以实验室为基础的对健康、有风险和亚临床个体的实验研究，这些研究为临床应用提供信息，也包括对临床严重样本的研究。鼓励提交以下类型的报告：对有助于心理病理学和提供新治疗目标的机制的理论审查；对新颖的、以机制为重点的心理干预措施的测试，特别是那些包括理论驱动或实验衍生的预测因素、调节因素和中介因素的测试；以及创新在心理学和相关领域的临床实践中传播和实施循证实践，特别是针对潜在机制或关注新的治疗方法的实践。除了传统的心理障碍，该杂志的范围还包括行为医学（如慢性疼痛）。《华尔街日报》不会考虑主要涉及测量、心理测量分析和个性评估的稿件。。