2022 Volume 37 Issue 1 Pages 60-67
The purpose of the present article is to discuss implications, strategies, and impact of Articles and Practical Reports about psychiatric interventions that are published in the Japanese Journal of Behavior Analysis. Articles and Practical Reports are important because they are related to creation of an integrated field and to systematic replications. These articles function to reinforce readers and writers, and to increase interactions between writers and readers. The structure of the articles should include the participants’ symptoms (behavior), life history, and environment; functional and ecological assessments, ethics, research design, dependent variables, intervention methods, results, and discussion, in order to ensure efficient writing, reading, and editing. Comments on the 5 articles in the present issue contend that writing articles leads to realizing behavior wellness by sharing experiences of clinical interventions at various sites.
