Behavior Modification (journal)

*Behavior Modification*
Discipline	Psychology
Language	English
Edited by	Dr. Mandy Rispoli
Publication details
History	1977–present
Publisher	SAGE Publications
Frequency	Bimonthly
Impact factor	2.024 (2017)
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	Behav. Modif.
Indexing;
CODEN	BEMOD
ISSN	0145-4455 (print); 1552-4167 (web);
LCCN	77648534
OCLC no.	422718908
Links
	Journal homepage; Online access; Online archive;

Behavior Modification (BMO) is a peer-reviewed academic journal that presents insightful research, reports, and reviews on behavioral psychology. The current editor is Dr. Mandy Rispoli who is a Quantitative Foundation Bicentennial Professor at the University of Virginia. The former editor is Alan S. Bellack at the University of Maryland. The journal was established in 1977 and is currently published by SAGE Publications.

For more than 30 years, researchers, academics and practitioners in clinical psychology have turned to Behavior Modification for innovative and insightful research, reports, and reviews on applied behavior modification. Each issue offers successful assessment and modification techniques applicable to problems in psychiatric, clinical, educational, and rehabilitative settings, as well as treatment manuals and program descriptions. These practical features help you follow the process of clinical research and to apply it to your own behavior modification interventions.

Interdisciplinary

Behavior Modification offers high-quality research articles by distinguished scholars from a variety of disciplines. The wide range of topics includes:

Anxiety
Phobias
Child Abuse
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Divorce and Children
Problem Behavior
Eating Disorders
Sexual Harassment
Female Assertiveness
Sleep Disorders
Gender Role stress
Unemployment and Mental Health
Learning Disabilities
Weight Loss Maintenance

Comprehensive

An important forum for emerging developments and debates in applied behavior modification, Behavior Modification offers research and clinical articles, treatment manuals, program descriptions, review articles, assessment and modification techniques, theoretical discussions, group comparison designs, and book and media reviews of significant literature in the field.

Special Issues

Behavior Modification also occasionally supplements its broad coverage with single-theme Special Issues dedicated to topics of particular interest, such as:

Facial Expressions of Emotions
Community Integration for Persons With the Most Severe Disabilities
Social-Skills Assessment and Intervention With Children and Adolescents
Integrating Personality Assessment Data and Behavioral Therapy
Current Research on Social Behavior
Treatment of Children With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Environmental Risk Factors in the Development of Psychopathology

This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)

Abstracting and indexing

Behavior Modification is abstracted and indexed in Scopus and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2017 impact factor is 2.024, ranking it 60 out of 127 journals in the category "Psychology, Clinical".^[1]

References

^ "Journals Ranked by Impact: Psychology, Clinical". 2017 Journal Citation Reports (Social Sciences ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2017. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)

External links

Journal Homepage

Editorial Board

[WoS-1] "Journals Ranked by Impact: Psychology, Clinical". 2017 Journal Citation Reports (Social Sciences ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2017. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)

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