Infant Mental Health Journal

The official publication of the World Association for Infant Mental Health (WAIMH) and the Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health (MI-AIMH) places an emphasis on the ways in which applied research informs clinical and applied practice, policy, and the field of infant and early childhood mental health.

While IMHJ leans heavily toward work in infancy and toddlerhood, the journal also publishes research examining preschoolers’ social-emotional development in relational contexts, such as work involving early childhood mental health consultation. Papers also focus on infant, toddler, or preschooler outcomes, focus on adult (e.g., parent, caregiver, educator, clinician) outcomes, or both adult and child outcomes. All work published in IMHJ reflects the robust use of infant and early childhood mental health perspectives.

The Infant Mental Health Journal publishes primarily peer-reviewed research articles, including program evaluations. Rigorous review papers and theoretical/conceptual papers and brief reports (e.g., novel pilot studies) that focus on early social and emotional development and characteristics that influence social-emotional development from relationship-based perspectives are also welcomed. Examples of such influences include attachment relationships, early relationship development, caregiver-infant interactions, infant and early childhood mental health services, contextual and cultural influences on infant/toddler/child and family development, including parental/caregiver psychosocial characteristics and attachment history, prenatal experiences, and biological characteristics in interaction with relational environments that promote optimal social-emotional development or place it at higher risk. Research published in IMHJ focuses on the prenatal-age 5 period and employs relationship-based perspectives in key research questions and interpretation and implications of findings.

IMHJ is dedicated to an interdisciplinary approach to the optimal development of infants, toddlers, very young children, their families, caregivers and teachers; therefore, IMHJ welcomes submissions from all disciplinary perspectives. Journal articles attract scholars and practitioners from many disciplines including child development, early childhood education, early childcare, early intervention, human development, family studies, nursing, pediatrics, psychology, and social work.

Platform:

OvidSP

Publisher:

Wiley

Product Type:

Journal

Author:

Brophy-Herb, Holly, PhD

ISSN:

0163-9641

Specialty:

• Child Development Psychology
• Psychology

Language:

English

Update Frequency:

6 Times a Year

2023 Journal Impact Factor:

2.1 (Journal Citation Report, Web of Science Group)