lnternational Journal of Forensic Mental Health

The International Journal of Forensic Mental Health is the official journal of the International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services. A complimentary subscription to the journal is a benefit of membership of the society. The journal published its first issue in March, 2002, and four issues are published annually. 

The International Journal of Forensic Mental Health is devoted to research and practice in the field of forensic mental health. It provides an international forum for encouraging and disseminating research and practice developments to forensic mental health professionals, academics, and scholars. The focus of the journal is on forensic mental health service issues including, but not limited to, the assessment, treatment, recovery and rehabilitation of youth and adults with mental health problems who also have a history of offending, as well as matters pertaining to criminal responsibility, competency or fitness to stand trial, and risk assessment and management. The journal reflects the international audience represented by the International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services, and articles describing or comparing the law and/or practice in different countries are encouraged.

The target audience for the journal is mental health practitioners, service administrators and policy makers, and other professionals whose research or practice focuses on forensic mental health.

Manuscript submissions should be submitted online (see HERE). Manuscripts should conform to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th Edition). More detailed instructions on how to format and submit your manuscript can be found HERE.

Please let your colleagues know about our journal and submit your best work for review!

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Co-Editors: Lisa Monchalin & Alicia Nijdam-Jones

All Members have Free Online Access to the Journal

As a member of International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services you are eligible to access International Journal of Forensic Mental Health online.

Access journal here. 

Please note you will have to log in to your IAFMHS account to access the journal. Please contact iafmhs@sfu.ca if you have any difficulties. Alternatively, you can access the journal starting from an article page from the International Journal of Forensic Mental Health on Sage Journals:

1. From the article page, click on "Get access" and then select "Society"
2. Click on the IAFMHS "Membership Login" button, which will direct you to the AFMHS membership login page
3. Log in using your IAFMHS membership credentials
4. Navigate to the members only area, where you should find link to access the journal. 

You can also access the journal starting from the Sage Journals home page:

1. Click on "Access/profile" and "View access options"
2. Under "Society" search for IAFMHS and select the society
3. Click on the "Membership Login" button, which will direct you to the IAFMHS membership login page
4. Log in using your IAFMHS membership credentials
5. Navigate to the members only area, where you should find link to access the journal.

Become an Editorial Board Member

The International Journal of Forensic Mental Health invites people who are appropriately qualified and have diligently provided high quality reviews to the journal to self-nominate for the Editorial Board. Editorial Board members are required to commit to reviewing ~6 papers per year. Please send a succinct paragraph to an Associate Editor who is familiar with your reviews, the Editor-in-Chief (Alicia Nijdam-Jones - alicia.nijdam-jones@umanitoba.ca), or the Editorial Assistant (Katérine Aminot - katerine_aminot@sfu.ca) describing your qualifications to be a reviewer, your contributions to the Association (e.g., served on the Advisory Board, worked on a Local Organizing Committee), and/or journal to date (e.g., provided high quality reviews consistently for past 3 years). Finally, please include a minimum of 4-5 areas of expertise and your preferred title and affiliation. 

Become a Reviewer

If you are interested in becoming an ad-hoc reviewer please contact us. In order to facilitate this process, we recommend that you are nominated by a member of IAFMHS (a succinct email is sufficient) and provide us with your CV and up to five areas of expertise; you can send this to our editor-in-chief with the editorial assistant in CC.

We are particularly interested in supporting student reviewers. Students should be admitted to a graduate program in a related discipline and must have a direct supervisor who is willing to collaborate on the review(s). If you are interested in becoming a student reviewer, please send your CV with a brief statement of support by your supervisor, and include up to five areas of expertise, to our editor-in-chief, with the editorial assistant in CC.

Editorial Team

			Editor-in-Chief  |   Alicia Nijdam-Jones Department of Psychology, University of Manitoba; CANADA
			Associate Editor  |  Evan Auguste Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice; UNITED STATES
			Associate Editor  |  Matina Shafti Lecturer in Forensic Psychology, School of Human Sciences, University of Greenwich; UNITED KINGDOM
			Associate Editor   |   Jack Tomlin Senior Lecturer, School of Law and Criminology, University of Greenwich; UNITED KINGDOM Associate Editor   |   Carlo Garofalo Università degli Studi di Perugia, ITALY Associate Editor   |   Brianne K. Layden Simon Fraser University, CANADA

FOUNDING EDITORS

Ronald Roesch - Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Stephen D. Hart - Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, Canada

EDITORIAL BOARD

Abby L. Mulay, Medical University of South Carolina, USA

Adegboyega Ogunwale, Department of Clinical Services, Neuropsychiatric Hospital Aro Abeokuta, Nigeria

Amanda M. Fanniff, Palo Alto University, USA

Apryl A. Alexander, UNC Charlotte and UNC Charlotte Violence Prevention Center, USA  

Barry Rosenfeld, Department of Psychology, Fordham University, USA

Benjamin Spivak, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

C. Adam Coffey, Private practice, Canada

Emilie Picard, Forensic Neuropsychologist Commonwealth of Virginia, Private Practice North Carolina USA

Emily D. Gottfried, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, USA

Emily Weinberger, University of Colorado Anschutz and Denver Health, USA

Evan D. Holloway, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, University of California, USA

Hjalmar van Marle, Department of Forensic Psychiatry of the Erasmus Medical Center and the Erasmus School of Law, Erasmum University Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Ilvy Goossens, St. Joseph's Healthcare, McMaster University, Canada

Jaime L. Anderson, Sam Houston State University, USA

Jared R. Ruchensky, Loyola University Chicago, USA

Jason Davies, Swansea University, UK

Jennifer Cox, Department of Psychology, The University of Alabama, USA

John Matthew Fabian, University of Texas Health Sciences Centre at Houston McGovern Medical School Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, USA

Jonathan R. Cohn, Oregon State Hospital, USA

Joseph L. Marcel-Davies, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Wales

Julie Goldenson, University of Toronto, Canada

Kasmira Sobkow, Department of Clinical Health Psychology, University of Manitoba, Canada

Kirk Heilbrun, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Drexel University, USA

Laurence Roy, Université de Montréal, Canada

Lindsay Healey, Integrated Forensic Program, Royal Ottawa, Health Care Group, Canada

Maria Aparcero-Suero, School of Psychological and Behavioral Sciences, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA

Michael Seto, Royal Ottawa Health Care Group, University of Ottawa, Canada

Nina Papalia, Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Patricia A. Zapf, Palo Alto University, USA

Stephanie R. Penney, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Canada

Tara J. Ryan, Oregon State Hospital, USA

Tella Lantta, Department of Nursing Science, University of Turku, Finland

Vanessa A. Guzman, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA

Vivienne de Vogel, Maastricht University and University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, The Netherlands