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Journal of Clinical Sport Psychology

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Print ISSN: 1932-9261

Online ISSN: 1932-927X

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Volume 19 (2025): Issue 2 (Jun 2025)

ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Screening of Depression and Mental Health in Elite Youth Sports: Differences in Risk Estimation Between the PHQ-2 and the WHO-5
Predictive Factors for Compulsive Exercise in Adolescent Athletes: A Cross-Sectional Study
Developing Self-Awareness and Emotional Intelligence in Adolescent Soccer: A Community Outreach Pilot Program
A Program and Session Evaluation of Student-Athletes’ Experiences Participating in a Mental Illness Destigmatization Intervention
Using the Anxiety Sensitivity Index-3 With Athletes: A Psychometric Evaluation of Factor Structure and Measurement Invariance
AROUND THE WORLD
Mindfulness and Psychological Inflexibility in Portuguese Adolescent Athletes: A Novel Framework for Understanding the Link Between Shame and Sports Anxiety
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The Journal of Clinical Sport Psychology (JCSP), a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal, addresses psychological care and clinical issues of athletes, exercisers, and other performers. Clinical sport psychology represents an integration of therapeutic strategies and mental skills training approaches for performance, health, and overall well-being.

JCSP is published quarterly, in March, June, September, and December.

MissionJCSP Insights. Impact Factor 1.4, CiteScore 3.6, Google h5-index 25, Review time 11.7 weeks, 16% Acceptance rate, publication time 10 weeks. Note. h5-index is the Google h-index for articles published in the last 5 complete years. Review time is the time from article submission to first decision for peer-reviewed manuscripts that are not desk rejected.  Publication time is the time from article acceptance to first appearance of the article online (with DOI).

The mission of the Journal of Clinical Sport Psychology (JCSP) is to disseminate scholarly, peer-reviewed work that integrates therapeutic strategies and performance enhancement approaches to best serve athletes, exercisers, and other performers. JCSP is designed to provide practical recommendations to mental health providers and applied sport psychology practitioners, stimulate provocative discussions, promote best practices and intervention strategies, and disseminate applied research findings.

Target Audience

JCSP serves as a resource for clinicians and other professionals who work with athletes, exercisers, and performers. Articles published in JCSP also inform the work of sport and exercise psychology scholars.

Ethics Policy

Please visit the Ethics Policy page for information about the policies followed by JCSP.

Editor

Justine J. Reel
University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA

Associate Editors

J.D. DeFreese
University of North Carolina, USA

Edson Filho
Boston University, USA

Editors Emeriti

Frank L. Gardner, Touro College, USA (Founding Editor: 2007–2013)
Don Marks, Kean University, USA (2013–2017)

Editorial Board

Mitch Abrams, Learned Excellence for Athletes, USA

Jessyca Arthur-Cameselle, Western Washington University, USA

Shelby Baez, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

Itay Basevitch, Texas A&M University – Kingsville, USA

Marcelo Bigliassi, Florida International University, USA

Matthew Bird, University of Lincoln, UK

Jedediah E. Blanton, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA

Jordan Blazo, Louisiana Tech University, USA

Chris Carr, Green Bay Packers, USA

Jennifer Carter, The Ohio State University, Wexner Medical Center, USA

Jenny Conviser, Ascend Consulting, USA

Selenia di Fronso, E-campus University, Italy

Brad Donohue, University of Nevada, USA

Peter J. Economou, Rutgers University, USA

Robert Eklund, Florida State University, USA

Teresa B. Fletcher, Adler University, USA

Brad Foltz, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, USA

Frank L. Gardner, Kean University, USA

Steve Gonzalez, Dartmouth College, USA

Recep Gorgulu, Bursa Uludag University, Türkiye

Christy Greenleaf, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, USA

Michael Gross, Princeton University, USA

Michael C. Grugan, Northumbria University, UK

Henrik Gustafsson, Karlstads Universitet, Sweden

Christine M. Habeeb, East Carolina University, USA

James L.W. Houle, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, USA

Jacob Levy, The University of Tennessee, USA

Lauren Loberg, National Football League, USA 

Tobias Lundgren, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Charles Maher, Rutgers University, USA

Don Marks, Kean University, USA

Maya Miyairi, DePaul University, USA

Zella Moore, Touro University, USA

Kelli Moran-Miller, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA

Trent Petrie, University of North Texas, USA

Les Podlog, Université de Montréal, Canada

Carrie Scherzer, Mount Royal University, Canada

Lindsey H. Schroeder, University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA

Chris Selby, Springfield College, USA

Terilyn C. Shigeno, Adler University, USA

Sonya SooHoo, University of California, San Francisco, USA

Richard Eirikur Tahtinen, University of Akureyri, Iceland

Amanda Tierney, McCallum Place, The Victory Program, USA 

J. Jordan Utley, Pima Medical Institute, USA

Frank Webbe, Florida Institute of Technology, USA

Karin Weman Josefsson, Halmstad University, Sweden

Andrew Wolanin, Wolanin Consulting and Assessment Inc., USA

Mike Zito, Montclair State University, USA

Deanne Zotter, West Chester University, USA

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The Journal of Clinical Sport Psychology (JCSP) is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal that provides practical and clinically relevant recommendations to mental health providers and practitioners in sport and exercise psychology, stimulates provocative discussions, promotes best practices and intervention strategies, and disseminates applied research findings that clearly show clinical relevance. The journal covers a broad range of topics. Some examples of relevant topics include psychology of injury, eating disorders, exercise and mental health, and substance use disorders. This journal highlights the clinical application of research findings within direct psychological service delivery spanning a wide range of clients and settings. JCSP recognizes the importance of diverse methodologies, varied treatment approaches, and the importance of having authors represent a wide range of perspectives around sport and exercise psychology. JCSP is international in scope and submissions from around the world and with diverse populations are encouraged. 

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All manuscript submissions should be written in accessible language, free of scientific jargon, and easily understood by a wide variety of clinicians and applied sport psychology practitioners. To align with the mission of JCSP, submissions should strive to demonstrate clinical relevance. Authors must follow the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed. 2020), and manuscripts should be void of typos and grammatical errors. Line numbering and 12-point font should be used for the double-spaced document.

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  • Original research papers follow traditional format and section headings to demonstrate literature background, methods, results, and discussion. All methodologies are welcomed (e.g., quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods). To follow ethical research procedures, prior institutional review board approval is expected. Applied and clinical relevance of the project should be clearly demonstrated throughout. Authors are strongly encouraged to include a clinical implications section in their manuscript to provide practical implications for clinicians or practitioners working in this field. Including abstract (150 word maximum), tables, and references these papers should not exceed 30 pages.
  • Practice papers are applied pieces that may, for example, detail “best practice” prevention, intervention, or treatment approaches to addressing problems within sport, exercise, and performance contexts. Another option is a “lessons learned” paper that describes challenges and recommendations gleaned from implementing a program or intervention with athletes, exercisers, or performers. Papers may also use published research findings or theoretical frameworks to inform practice recommendations to clinicians, practitioners, and others working in the field. These papers should be 20 pages or less, including the abstract (150 word maximum), tables, and references.
  • Commentaries are brief papers that describe hot topics in the field or argue for a particular viewpoint, therapeutic approach or strategies for navigating challenges that may arise in research and practice for sport and exercise psychology. Although these may be viewed as “opinion papers”, authors should tie ideas to the literature and employ a professional tone to ensure a compelling scholarly argument. These papers require abstracts (150 word maximum) and should not exceed 10 pages.
  • Case illustration and therapeutic approach papers articulate a specific and in depth case to make a problem “come to life” and illustrate challenges and intervention strategies in a clinical or applied setting. If based on a real case, all identifying characteristics should be altered to protect the identity of the client(s). These papers must include a case narrative, case interpretation, and a clinical implications section with a recommended therapeutic approach supported by research. These papers require abstracts (150 word maximum) and should not exceed 7 pages. 
  • Around the World papers allow for more inclusive publishing of works by authors outside of North America who give voice to under-represented countries. While these submissions can follow any of the formats accepted by JCSP (original research, practice paper, commentary, or case illustration), all papers should clearly list the country in the title. A clinical implications section that elaborates on the role of sport and exercise psychology within the country being studied should be included as well as the implications of the work to influence the prominence of clinical sport psychology within the region. Editors may identify certain papers as eligible for this designation. Papers that appear in the “Around the World” section (which started in March 2021 issue of JCSP) are open access to allow for increased visibility and potential impact.
  • Other types of papers, including reviews or letters to the editor, may be published from time to time. In most cases, these are commissioned, and specific instructions will be provided to authors for their preparation. All articles will still be submitted to a peer review process.

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