The Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research is published by the American Psychological Association

American Psychological Association

The American Psychological Association is the largest scientific and professional organization of psychologists in the United States. It is the world's largest association of psychologists with around 154,000 members including scientists, educators, clinicians, consultants and students. The APA...

's Educational Publishing Foundation in collaboration with the Society of Consulting Psychology

Society of Consulting Psychology

The Society of Consulting Psychology is a professional association of psychologists who are involved with consulting psychology. The society is the 13th division of the American Psychological Association...

 (APA Division 13). It is edited by Rodney L. Lowman

Rodney L. Lowman

Rodney L. Lowman is an American psychologist, academic administrator and entrepreneur whose major contributions have been in the areas of career assessment and counseling, ethical issues in Industrial and Organizational Psychology , the integration of clinical psychology and I-O psychology and...

. Past editors include Richard Diedrich, who edited the journal for 10 years, and founding editor H. Skipton Leonard. The journal covers the field of consulting psychology

Consulting psychology

Consulting psychology is a special area of psychology, addressing the applications of psychology to such areas as assessment and interventions at the individual, group, and organizational levels. The Handbook of Organizational Consulting Psychology provides an overview of specific areas of study...

 and publishes theoretical/conceptual articles, original empirical research, and reviews concerning consultation and its practice. It also publishes case studies demonstrating the application of innovative consultation methods and strategies on critical or often overlooked issues with unusual features that would be of general interest to other consultants.

Special issues

The journal has published a number of special issues on important consulting psychology topics, such as More About Executive Coaching: Practice and Research, Emerging Issues in Leadership Development Consultation, Workplace Bullying/Mobbing, Culture, Race and Ethnicity in Organizational Consulting Psychology, and Organizational Consulting in National Security Contexts.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is indexed by PsycINFO

PsycINFO

PsycINFO is a database of abstracts of literature in the field of psychology. It is produced by the American Psychological Association and distributed on the association's and through third-party vendors. It is the electronic version of the now-ceased Psychological Abstracts...

/PsychAbstracts and Scopus

Scopus

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and is electronically accessible through PsycARTICLES.