Aims & Scope

Climate change has a broad range of impacts on mental health. These impacts arise from the direct effects of environmental change (e.g., natural disasters, loss of environmental resources), as well as the indirect effects caused by worry and concern for one’s future and wellbeing.

JMHCC aims to publish high-quality research examining the impacts of climate change on mental health and wellbeing and identifying opportunities to ameliorate these effects. In defining the journal’s scope, our editorial uses broad definitions for both mental health and climate change. Articles that deal with any psychosocial aspects of climate change will be considered. This includes articles that adopt a strengths-based approach to understanding how communities can adapt to climate change as well as studies that highlight the need for targeted investments and community adaptation.

As an interdisciplinary journal, JMHCC welcome articles from the disciplines of epidemiology, anthropology, sociology, psychology, communication, policy, and economics. We encourage submissions leveraging a wide array of methodologies, including evidence synthesis and content analyses, qualitative ethnographies and interviews, quantitative surveys and modeling, and other non-Western approaches to knowledge generation. We also accept, policy briefs, opinions, and editorials from both academic and community perspectives.

If you have questions about whether your research fits within the scope of JMHCC, please direct inquiries to our Editorial Board by emailing a 150 to 300 word structured abstract to kcard@sfu.ca.

Calls for Special Issues

Social Roles and Identities in The Context of Climate Change and Mental Health.

Editorial Board

Position	Name
Editor-in-Chief	Kiffer G. Card, PhD
Associate Editor(s)	Gina Martin, PhD Linda Thyer, MD Melissa Lem, MD Arden Henley, PhD Jennifer L. Barkin, PhD Allison Davis, PhD McKenna Dunbar Judy Wu

Instructions for Authors

JMHCC is proud to offer formatting-free submissions. There is no need to revise the format of your submission prior to submission. Simply complete our submission form and submit a cover letter, blinded-manuscript, and any supplemental material for review. Once your manuscript is accepted for publication, we will ask for a final version of the manuscript prepared according to guidelines from the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th Edition).

Currently JMHCC multiple types of articles. Each article type is introduced below:

Article Type	Description
Empirical Studies	Original research leveraging quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research that may be submitted as an Empirical Study. Empirical Studies are full scientific reports, typically structured with an Introductory literature review, defined aims and hypotheses, detailed description of methodology, thorough reporting of results, and well-considered discussion of findings.
Evidence Reviews	Literature reviews, including scoping and systematic reviews and grey literature reviews are welcome as Evidence Reviews. Other types of analyses that may qualify as an evidence review include content analyses of existing publically available data sources, as well as cross-jurisdictional scans, document reviews, and other types of evidence gathering and synthesis projects. The primary aim of an evidence review is to synthesize studies to provide greater contextual meaning or understanding of a topic of interest.
Registered Reports	Registered Reports are reports written without a results section for studies that have not yet been conducted. If a registered report is accepted and authors complete the study as planned, we will accept the study for publication. Registered reports help eliminate publication bias and are an important tool for open science. They reduce the strain on researchers to produce positive findings and allow for null results to be shared more easily than the traditional peer review system. When a study is accepted as a registered report, the introduction and methods are published as well as a short discussion about what anticipated outcomes might mean for the field. After the study is completed, the results and discussion sections are added and revised under the editorial supervision of the handling editor and reviewers.
Brief Reports	Brief Reports are short reports of limited scope. They may include case studies, case series, or preliminary quantitative findings that might not require publication as a full report. These articles may sometimes include sub-analyses or secondary analyses that are from a larger project that is discussed in depth within another publication. A brief report should typically be concise and provide only the information that is needed to understand and contextualize the findings. Brief reports may also include articles of limited generalizability or geographic scope, such as reviews of local policies or interventions related to climate change and mental health.
Commentaries	Commentaries may be written in response to any article submitted to JMHCC (or on rare occasions, articles published in other venues). These reports are typically reviewed by the editor and the authors of the original work being commented on.
Perspectives	Perspectives are Letters to the Editor that comment on current events, key issues, and/or other data sources not included in the journal.
Practice Briefs	Practice Briefs are brief reports focused on clinical practice, usually written by an expert who directly provides care to clients.
Research-Creation	Research-Creation are diverse multi-media presentations that describe the creation of an arts-based research output.

Article Processing Fees

The article processing fee is $750 CAD due upon acceptance of the manuscript. Corresponding authors will receive an invoice upon acceptance of the article.