国际多学科期刊行为研究和治疗的主要焦点是一种实验性的精神病理学方法，用于理解情绪和行为障碍及其预防和治疗，使用认知、行为和心理生理(包括神经)方法和模型。这包括以实验室为基础的实验研究，对象包括健康、高危和亚临床个体，这些研究为临床应用提供了信息，也包括临床严重样本的研究。鼓励提交下列类型的报告:对有助于精神病理学和提供新的治疗目标的机制的理论审查;新颖的、机械性的心理干预测试，特别是包括理论驱动或实验推导的预测因子、调节因子和中介因子的测试;以及将基于证据的实践传播和实施到心理学和相关领域的临床实践中的创新，特别是那些以潜在机制为目标或侧重于提供治疗的新方法的实践。除了传统的心理障碍，该杂志的范围还包括行为医学(例如，慢性疼痛)。该杂志不会考虑主要涉及测量、心理测量分析和性格评估的手稿。编辑和副编辑将初步决定提交的稿件是否属于期刊的范围和/或是否具有足够的价值和重要性，值得进行全面审查。
An International Multi-Disciplinary JournalThe major focus of Behaviour Research and Therapy is an experimental psychopathology approach to understanding emotional and behavioral disorders and their prevention and treatment, using cognitive, behavioral, and psychophysiological (including neural) methods and models. This includes laboratory-based experimental studies with healthy, at risk and subclinical individuals that inform clinical application as well as studies with clinically severe samples. The following types of submissions are encouraged: theoretical reviews of mechanisms that contribute to psychopathology and that offer new treatment targets; tests of novel, mechanistically focused psychological interventions, especially ones that include theory-driven or experimentally-derived predictors, moderators and mediators; and innovations in dissemination and implementation of evidence-based practices into clinical practice in psychology and associated fields, especially those that target underlying mechanisms or focus on novel approaches to treatment delivery. In addition to traditional psychological disorders, the scope of the journal includes behavioural medicine (e.g., chronic pain). The journal will not consider manuscripts dealing primarily with measurement, psychometric analyses, and personality assessment.The Editor and Associate Editors will make an initial determination of whether or not submissions fall within the scope of the journal and/or are of sufficient merit and importance to warrant full review.
