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.
　　该杂志发表研究调查的文章，加强对心理病理学和精神障碍的理解，适用于所有年龄、异常或异常行为，包括与医疗条件和创伤有关的行为，并构建人格描述。它促进了对正常和异常行为的评估、描述和分类、诱发、诱发和维持心理病理学的心理生物学因素、心理病理学和行为改变理论的探讨。
　　覆盖范围涵盖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。
　　这本杂志包含了一些关于治疗干预的文章，并接受评论，特别是元分析评论。