About our journal

Romanian Journal of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Hypnosis is a periodical that aims to stimulate and promote the work of the specialists and psychology students (bachelor’s and master’s degree) who are willing to bring a personal contribution to the field of clinical psychology and psychotherapy by creating personal scientific articles.

The journal is published under the aegis of Cognitive Behavioral Therapies Master of Science Program, Department of Psychology and Psychotherapy, Titu Maiorescu University and The Association of Psychopharmacotherapy and Cognitive Sciences , Bucharest, Romania, with a frequency of 4 issues per year, and offers a free source of original papers that address any topic relevant for the theoretical framework and clinical practice of hypnosis, cognitive behavior therapies or other forms of psychotherapy.

The published material consists of quantitative and qualitative research papers and theoretical articles selected on the basis of a double-blind peer review procedure conducted according to an evaluation form (for more information about our evaluation criterions, please consult the review form that we apply to all the received submissions).

Thus, the journal’s space is allocated to the publication of the results obtained in experimental, correlational, meta-analysis and case studies, as well as to the presentation of a diversity of review, technical, and methodological articles that are concordant with the aims of our journal.

Each issue contains an editorial article and at least five papers received from the contributors, including a review of books, instructional DVDs, documentary films or media contents related to clinical psychology and psychotherapy.

The editors encourage the submission of papers that treat state of the art or not yet well clarified issues within:

  • Cognitive Behavior Therapy
  • Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
  • Metacognitive Therapy
  • Schema Therapy
  • Emotional Schema Therapy
  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy
  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
  • Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy
  • Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
  • Clinical and Ericksonian Hypnosis
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Cognitive Media Psychology
  • Film Psychology and Psychopathology
  • Psychopharmacotherapy
  • Toxicology
  • etc.

Romanian Journal of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and Hypnosis is an open access journal which means that its content is available for free. In addition, users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full text of the articles without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author.