Journal of Psychiatric Intensive Care

Please note the correct email address to contact the journal team is : journal@napicu.org.uk

Published bi-annually, the Journal of Psychiatric Intensive Care  is devoted to issues affecting the care and treatment of people with mental disorder who manifest severely disturbed mental or behavioural functioning. By design, the Journal is international and multi-disciplinary in its approach. It serves the interest of all professionals concerned with these topics whether they work in Psychiatric Intensive Care Units (PICUs), Low Secure Unit, Acute In-Patient Wards Challenging Behaviour, Emergency Psychiatry, Intensive Treatments or in other parts of the wider mental health system. All aspects of psychiatric intensive care are covered within the Journal that seeks to encourage informed debate and exchange of opinion and thereby become the essential journal in this field. The content of the Journal includes editorials, original articles, brief reports, reviews, conference reports, news and notices. Preference is given to original research of a high scientific quality. The Journal of Psychiatric Intensive Care is the official publication of NAPICU.

The Journal of Psychiatric Intensive Care would welcome your ideas and suggestions for articles to be published in future issues. The aim of the Journal is to report and publish research from a wide range of styles and furthermore to encourage debate and exchange of opinion from within the field of Psychiatric Intensive and Low Secure Unit care. The Journal hopes that the published issues will provide one such forum where practitioners will be stimulated to put pen to paper in the belief that the audience would like to hear about initiatives in your area of work or share experiences. It is recognised that to find the time to write articles is often difficult and requires some expertise, but please do not let this put you off from contributing. Please refer to the'Guide for Authors' that follows for submission guidelines.

Journal Contacts

 Editor in Chief    r.dix@napicu.org.uk

Deputy Editor     j.laidlaw@glos.nhs.uk

Deputy Editor     s.dye@napicu.org.uk

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Instructions for Contributors

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