With this second Issue of Volume 6, Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies is breaking new ground in various ways.  We have begun to include abstracts in Japanese and Portuguese as well as French, German and Spanish.   Also, our circulation has increased once more to pass 2,300 with the Portuguese Association (Associação Portuguesa de Psicoterapia Centrada na Pessoa e Counselling) purchasing the Journal for all its members.

Having devoted the first five years to establishing PCEP  on solid academic and professional grounds, we have begun the process of offering it for indexing.   The Journal has now been accepted for coverage in PsycINFO, the abstracting and indexing service of the American Psychological Association.   PsycINFO is the most important abstracting service in the social sciences and is distributed worldwide, primarily via the PsycINFO online database, but also in the form of Psychological Abstracts.   Journals are selected for coverage if they are archival (that is, publish articles of cumulative, lasting value), scholarly, peer-reviewed, regularly published, and include English language titles, abstracts and keywords.   The PsycINFO database includes more than 2.3 million records, dating back to 1880, and is updated weekly.  

Although over 2,000 journals are covered, only about half are covered completely.  Thus, we are pleased to report that PCEP will receive 100 percent coverage.  Furthermore, the coverage will be retroactive to the journal’s 2002 inception, meaning that abstracts of all articles published to date in PCEP will be indexed and available. 

Clearly, this is an important step toward wider dissemination and influence for PCEP. It will result in a significantly greater visibility and status for the Journal, and will directly benefit authors whose universities use indexing as a measure of scientific quality.

Issue 6.2 also breaks new ground in regard to its first three papers.  These investigate the process of working with a client who is experiencing difficult process and they do this by presenting the parallel experiences of the client (Morris) and the counselor (Turner) in separate papers as well as a commentary paper by an external consultant (Rolfe).  These papers offer a genuine investigative collaboration between client and counselor, with each given equal weight.

In Volume 5 we published a challenging paper by van Blarikom entitled “A personcentered approach to schizophrenia.”   That challenge is taken up in the present Issue by a response from Sanders.  This Issue also contains the first in a series of three theoretical papers by Cornelius-White and an interview with Nat Raskin conducted by Moodley and Mier.

Dave Mearns,  Robert Elliott,  Peter F. Schmid,  William B. Stiles,  Jeanne Watson.

June 2007