Call for Papers: Asian Americans and Suicide
Submission Deadline: November 1, 2017
Special Issue Editors
Frederick Leong, PhD, Joyce Chu, PhD, and Shashank Joshi, MD
The Asian American Journal of Psychology is extending an invitation for manuscripts to be considered for a special issue on Asian Americans and suicide.
The goal of this special issue is to detail the current state of knowledge and gaps about suicide in Asian American communities, and to highlight innovative approaches to suicide prevention and management for Asian Americans through a culturally informed lens.
Topics include, but are not limited to,
- expansion of the current knowledge base about the problem of suicide in Asian American communities
- ways to increase our understanding of the development of suicidal ideation and behaviors, the expression of suicidal distress or behaviors, means or methods of suicide, or culturally informed meanings of suicide
- understudied or innovative clinical or community approaches to prevent and manage suicide
Manuscripts that address suicide in understudied Asian American subgroups (e.g., Hmong, Laotian, Vietnamese, and Cambodian) are particularly welcome. Varied methodologies, particularly suicide note analysis or research on Asian American suicide decedents, are also of particular interest.
Empirical (quantitative and qualitative) papers, meta-analytic/review papers, and theoretical-based papers are all welcomed for submission.
The deadline for submissions is November 1, 2017.
This special issue endeavors to make timely and important contributions to burgeoning questions about heightened or growing suicide ideation, behaviors, and deaths among Asian American subgroups, and to provide guidance for community and clinical efforts to curtail the problem of suicide in Asian American populations.
Please follow the submission guidelines located on the Asian American Journal of Psychology website.
Manuscripts must be submitted electronically through the Manuscript Submission portal. Please specify in your cover letter that the submission is intended for the special section on Asian Americans and suicide.
All papers submitted will be initially screened by the guest editors and then sent out for blind peer review, if evaluated as appropriate for the journal.
For further questions related to this special issue, please contact Frederick Leong, Joyce Chu, or Shashank Joshi.