Book Series Editor: Dr. Daniel David; 2004-2009

The Annual Review of Psychotherapy and Mental Health will be published each year by the Nova Science (New-York, USA).

The book will be published in September of each year (or on a periodical basis) and it will critically examine publications, both books and journal articles, in the clinical field, published one year before; using professional standards, the book will present and discuss the best and the worst ten publications in the clinical field, thus contributing to the dissemination of high standards for research, training, and practice in the clinical field. The chapters will be written by influential professionals.

See the first volume of the series at: https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=4494

The criteria used to evaluate the quality of works are (for details see Sternberg & Gordeeva, 1996; Sternberg, 2003): 

Quality of presentation

• the problem is clearly stated and well-conceptualized
• well-written, well-structured, and well-organized
• tone is unbiased and impartial

Theoretical significance

• presents a useful new theory or theoretical framework
• integrates many different areas of data previously thought to be unrelated or poorly explained
• integrates into a new, simpler framework data that had previously required a complex and possibly unwieldy framework
• debunks an existing theory or way of thinking
• contains useful recommendations for changes in accepted theoretical constructs
• makes on obvious contribution to psychological knowledge, adding something new and/or substantial

Practical significance

• contains useful implications for professional practice
• includes concrete examples

Substantive interest

• topic is interesting and important
• appears at right moment, when people are ready to hear the message

Methodological interest

• presents a clever paradigm or experimental manipulation
• presents a new and useful test or psychological and/or methodological technique
• contains some surprising results that make sense in some theoretical context
• demonstrates a useful paradigm

Values for future research

• contains useful recommendations for further research or for changing research methodology
• contains useful implications for a scholarly understanding of the field
• contains useful implications for future research studies

Sternberg, R. J. & Gordeeva, T. (1996). Psychological Science, 2, 69-75.
Sternberg, R. J. (2003). The Anatomy of impact: What makes the great works of psychology great. APA: Washington.

In special conditions, respecting the ethical guidelines (e.g., an agreement between editors and publishers), the best papers of our Journal (i.e., Journal of Cognitive and Behavioral Psychotherapies) on this topic might be included in the book series in order to increase their visibility. Those interested to contribute as authors of various chapters please contact:

Editor: Daniel David, Ph.D., Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; No. 37 Republicii street, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; Tel: 0040 264 744266300; Fax: 0040 264 595576; Email: