| Status | Active |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1973 |
| Founder | Bob Matloff and Seymour Weingarten |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | New York City |
| Distribution | Worldwide |
| Key people | Bob Matloff (President) Seymour Weingarten (Editor-in-chief) |
| Publication types | Books, periodicals, software, and audiovisual programs for scholarly and general audiences. |
| Nonfiction topics | Mental health, psychology, elementary and secondary education, research methods, geography. |
| Number of employees | 75 |
| Official website | www.guilford.com |
Guilford Publications, Inc. is a New York City-based independent publisher founded in 1973 that specializes in publishing books, journals, software, and audiovisual programs in psychology, psychiatry, the behavioral sciences, education, and geography. The firm is owned by its two founding partners, president Bob Matloff and editor-in-chief Seymour Weingarten.[1]
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When reviewing one of Guilford Press' titles on parenting, Kirkus Reviews said of the company:
Guilford Press makes the following claim on its web site: "From psychology, psychiatry, and the behavioral sciences, to education, geography, and communication, the company is dedicated to bringing well-written, solidly researched work to professionals, academics, and interested general readers." We've taken a very close look at many of their books, and the claim so far holds up.[2]
Library Journal also described Guilford Press as being a leading publisher of mental health resources:
No single publisher dominates this field, although Guilford Publications is an excellent source of professional and consumer books and videos dealing with mental health.[3]
The publishing house currently has over 1,250 titles in print and typically publishes more than 90 new books each year.[1] The company also publishes 2 newsletters and 13 journals,[1] including Psychiatry, an official journal of the Washington School of Psychiatry;[4] and Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, the official Journal of the American Association of Suicidology.[5]
In 2008, Guilford Press launched an eBooks program and now offers over 400 titles as eBooks.[1]
Guilford titles are distributed in Europe by Taylor & Francis[6] and in Australia and New Zealand by Footprint Books.
Guilford exhibits at over 25 professional conferences each year, such as those held by the American Psychological Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the American Educational Research Association, the International Reading Association and BookExpo America.[7]
The company's titles are regularly reviewed in prominent publications, including Choice Reviews, PsycCRITIQUES, Nursing Standard, and Library Journal. In the academic sphere, Guilford Publications has published books by Aaron T. Beck, who is known as the father of cognitive therapy and was the winner of the 2006 Lasker Foundation Clinical Medical Research Award;[8] Marsha Linehan, the developer of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT); and the founders of motivational interviewing, Stephen Rollnick and William R. Miller. Mind Over Mood by Dennis Greenberger and Christine A. Padesky was chosen for inclusion in the United Kingdom National Health Service's bibliotherapy program, a selective list of proven self-help books that general practitioners, counselors, and community mental health specialists are encouraged to "prescribe" for patients with mild to moderate mental health concerns.[9] The book was also voted by the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies as "the most influential cognitive behavioural therapy publication"[10] and was recommended by Scientific American Mind.[11]
Guilford's list of authors includes: Russell Barkley, Aaron T. Beck, Isabel L. Beck, Judith S. Beck, J.M. Blaut, Cathy Collins Block, Peter Dicken, Glen H. Elder, Jr., Kathy Ganske, William Ickes, Jon Kabat-Zinn, David A. Kenny, D. Richard Laws, Marsha Linehan, G. Alan Marlatt, William R. Miller, Susan B. Neuman, Stephen Rollnick, Daniel J. Siegel, Robert E. Stake, Tony Ward, and J. Mark G. Williams.