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The journal covers research, theory, and program applications pertinent to multicultural and racial and ethnic minority interests in all areas of counseling and human development. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2016 impact factor of 0.421, ranking it 78th out of 80 journals in the category "Psychology, Applied". [1]
In the 1970s, a language shift occurred and the counseling was called 'multicultural' or 'cross-cultural' instead of minority counseling. The 1980s and 1990s saw a lot of new studies and research on the importance of multicultural counseling and there was a new call to action for the field to be more aware of cultural issues that minorities ...
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers research in the field of cross-cultural psychology. The editor-in-chief is Deborah L. Best (Wake Forest University). It has been in publication since 1970 and is published by SAGE Publications.
Cultural psychiatry looks at whether psychiatric classifications of disorders are appropriate to different cultures or ethnic groups. It often argues that psychiatric illnesses represent social constructs as well as genuine medical conditions, and as such have social uses peculiar to the social groups in which they are created and legitimized.
Cross-Cultural Research is abstracted and indexed in, among other databases: SCOPUS, and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2017 impact factor is 0.975, ranking it 56 out of 98 journals in the category "Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary". [2]
Cross-cultural psychology is differentiated from (but influences and is influenced by), cultural psychology, which refers to the branch of psychology that holds that human behavior is strongly influenced by cultural differences, meaning that psychological phenomena can only be compared with each other across cultures to a limited extent. In ...
The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a scientometric index calculated by Clarivate that reflects the yearly mean number of citations of articles published in the last two years in a given journal, as indexed by Clarivate's Web of Science.
The Counseling Psychologist is a peer-reviewed academic journal that focuses on timely topics in such diverse areas as multiculturalism and cross-cultural competency, research methods, vocational psychology, assessment, international counseling and research, prevention and intervention, health, social justice, assessment, and training and supervision.