Psychiatric Services
| Psychiatric Services | |
|---|---|
| Abbreviated title (ISO 4) | 'Psych Serv' |
| Discipline | Psychiatry |
| Peer-reviewed | Yes |
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Howard H. Goldman (Editor-in-Chief) |
| Publication details | |
| Publisher | American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. (United States) |
| Publication history | 1950 to present |
| Frequency | 12 issues per year |
| Impact factor (2009) | 2.813 |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN |
1075-2730 (print) 1557-9700 (web) |
| Links | |
Psychiatric Services (abbreviated Psych Serv) is a peer-reviewed academic journal publishing research on psychiatry. It is published monthly by American Psychiatric Association (APA), and is edited by Howard H. Goldman.
The journal was founded in 1950 by Daniel Blain, APA’s first medical director, as the A.P.A. Mental Hospital Service Bulletin.<ref name="talbott>Talbott, John A. (January 2000). Taking issue. Psychiatric Services</ref> It is published "for mental health professionals and others concerned with treatment and services for persons with mental illnesses and mental disabilities, in keeping with APA's objectives to improve care and treatment, to promote research and professional education in psychiatric and related fields, and to advance the standards of all psychiatric services and facilities."
The journal is abstracted and/or indexed by Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition (Thomson ISI), Medline/PubMed, Science Citation Index Expanded, SciFinder, SciSearch, Scopus and Web of Science, among others. Its impact factor is 2.813.