The Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology® (JCCP) publishes original contributions on the following topics: the development, validity, and use of techniques of diagnosis and treatment of disordered behaviorstudies of a variety of populations that have clinical interest, including but not limited to medical patients, ethnic minorities, persons with serious mental illness, and community samplesstudies that have a cross-cultural or demographic focus and are of interest for treating behavior disordersstudies of personality and of its assessment and development where these have a clear bearing on problems of clinical dysfunction and treatmentstudies of gender, ethnicity, or sexual orientation that have a clear bearing on diagnosis, assessment, and treatmentstudies of psychosocial aspects of health behaviors Studies that focus on populations that fall anywhere within the lifespan are considered. JCCP welcomes submissions on treatment and prevention in all areas of clinical and clinical–health psychology and especially on topics that appeal to a broad clinical–scientist and practitioner audience. JCCP encourages the submission of theory–based interventions, studies that investigate mechanisms of change, and studies of the effectiveness of treatments in real-world settings. JCCP recommends that authors of clinical trials pre-register their studies with an appropriate clinical trial registry (e.g., ClinicalTrials.gov, ClinicalTrialsRegister.eu) though both registered and unregistered trials will continue to be considered at this time.

该杂志咨询和临床心理学® （JCCP）公布下列主题原创性贡献： 诊断和治疗行为异常的技术的发展，有效性和使用对具有临床兴趣的各种人群的研究，包括但不限于医学患者，少数民族，患有严重精神疾病的人和社区样本跨文化或人口统计学的研究，对于治疗行为障碍很有意义关于人格及其评估和发展的研究，这些与临床功能障碍和治疗问题有着明显的关系与诊断，评估和治疗有明确关系的性别，种族或性取向研究健康行为的社会心理研究 考虑了针对寿命中任何地方的人口的研究。 JCCP欢迎有关临床和临床健康心理学各个领域的治疗和预防的投稿，尤其是那些吸引广大临床科学家和从业人员的主题。 JCCP鼓励提交基于理论的干预措施，研究变化机制的研究以及对现实环境中治疗效果的研究。 JCCP建议临床试验的作者通过适当的临床试验注册中心（例如ClinicalTrials.gov，ClinicalTrialsRegister.eu）预先注册研究，尽管此时将继续考虑已注册和未注册的试验。。