AeJAMH Editorial Board
[Guidelines for Peer Reviewers]
Editor in Chief
Professor Graham Martin
Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Royal Brisbane Hospital and University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Consulting Editor
Emeritus Professor Robert Kosky
Department of Psychiatry, Adelaide University, Australia
Editor
Anne O'Hanlon
Auseinet, Flinders University, South Australia, Australia
Online Production Team
Jill Knappstein
Auseinet, Flinders University, South Australia, Australia
Steve Trickey
Flinders University, South Australia, Australia
Editorial Advisory Board
The members of our advisory board are established in the field of promotion, prevention or early intervention for mental health. The board has several duties, including: endorsing the mandate of the journal and major editorial policies; giving advice from time to time on issues pertinent to developing strategy for directions of the journal; acting as reviewers for submissions when pertinent; and promoting the journal.
Janet Meagher AM
Manager, Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association, NSW, Australia
Professor Rob Moodie
Chair in Global Health, The Nossal Institute for Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Lou Morrow
Division of Mental Health, Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide, South Australia
Michael Murray
Chief Executive Clifford Beers Foundation; Editor, International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, United Kingdom
Ms. Jennie Parham
Director, Auseinet, Flinders University, South Australia
Dr. Nicholas Procter
Associate Professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Dr. Debra Rickwood
Associate Professor, Psychology, School of Health Sciences, University of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Dr. Peter Sainsbury
Director, Population Health, Sydney South West Area Health Service; Associate Professor, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Australia
Dr. Tracy Westerman
Director of Indigenous Psychological Services, Western Australia, Australia
Masood Zangeneh
Centre for Addiction & Mental Health, Ontario, Canada; Editor-in-Chief, eCOMMUNITY: International Journal of Mental Health & Addiction
Assessment Panel
Dr Fiona Arney
Australian Centre for Child Protection, University of South Australia, Magill Campus, South Australia
Ms Pat Barkway
School of Nursing and Midwifery, Flinders University, South Australia
Professor Paula Barrett
School of Education, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Dr Jane Burns
VicHealth Senior Research Fellow, ORYGEN Research Centre, University of Melbourne; Director of Research and Policy, Inspire Foundation, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Ms Ann Crago
Youthlink Coordinator, Flinders Medical Centre, Bedford Park, South Australia
Dr Lea Crisante
Sydney West Area Health Service Parenting Program, Cumberland Hospital, Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia
Ms Cathy Davis
Defence Community Organisation, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Ms Ruth DeSouza
Centre Coordinator/Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Asian and Migrant Health Research, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Ms Zell Dodd
Executive Director, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Health Directorate, Central Northern Adelaide Health Service, Adelaide, South Australia
Dr Caroline Donovan
Lecturer, School of Psychology, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland, Australia
Dr Michael Dudley
Senior Lecturer, School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Professor Stewart Einfeld
Brain and Mind Research Institute, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Professor Adrian Esterman
Foundation Chair of Biostatistics, School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia
Dr Terri Farrelly
Executive Director, The Echidna Group, Indigenous Research and Development Consultancy, Austinmer, New South Wales, Australia
Ms Susan Fealy
Fellow in Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Ms Elizabeth Fudge
Project Manager, Children Of Parents with a Mental Illness (COPMI) Initiative, AICAFMHA, North Adelaide, South Australia
Professor Alison Garton
School of Psychology, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia
Dr Susanna Gavidia-Payne
Director, EPIC (Education Program for Infants and Children); Associate Professor, Division of Psychology, School of Health Sciences, RMIT University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia
Ms Helen Glover
Director, enLightened Consultants, Redland Bay, Queensland, Australia
Dr Brian Graetz
Senior Program Manager: Public Health, beyondblue: the national depression initiative, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Mr Jo Grimwade
School of Psychology, Victoria University, Victoria, Australia
Ms Mary Guthrie
Manager, Policy and Projects, Australian Indigenous Doctors’ Association, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Professor Phillipa Hay
Foundation Chair of Mental Health, School of Medicine, University of Western Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Dr Julie Henderson
Research Fellow, School of Public Health, Flinders University, South Australia
Professor Ernest Hunter
Remote Area Mental Health Service, Queensland Health, Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Dr Jon Jureidini
Clinical Associate Professor, Disciplines of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, University of Adelaide; Senior Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Flinders University; Head, Department of Psychological Medicine, Women's and Children's Hospital, North Adelaide, South Australia
Mr Len Kanowski
Deputy Program Director, Mental Health First Aid Training and Research Program, ORYGEN Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Dr Emma Kowal
Executive Director, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Directorate, Central Northern Adelaide Health Service, South Australia
Dr Nick Kowalenko
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Dr Karolina Krysinska
Research Officer, Centre for Suicide Prevention Studies in Young People, School of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Ms Pam Linke
Strategic Manager, Parenting, Centre for Parenting, Children, Youth and Women's Health Service, Adelaide, South Australia
Dr Poppy Liossis
Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology and Counselling, Queensland University of Technology, Carseldine Campus, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Dr Chris Lloyd
Senior Lecturer, Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research and the School of Population Health, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Ms Roslyn Lockhart
Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses; Australian Nursing Federation, Australia
Mr Mathijs Lucassen
PhD Candidate, Department of Psychological Medicine, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Ms Merike Mannik
Lecturer, School of Social Work, Flinders University, South Australia
Dr Darryl Maybery
Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia
Ms Vicki McKenzie
Lecturer, Department of Learning and Educational Development, Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Dr Keith Miller
Lecturer, School of Social Work, Flinders University, South Australia
Professor Helen Milroy
Centre for Aboriginal Medical and Dental Health, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Dr Penny Mitchell
Centre for International Mental Health, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Ms Susan Mitchell
Tutor, School of Social and Social Policy, Division of Education, Arts and Social Sciences, University of South Australia, Magill Campus, South Australia
Dr Peter Morrall
Senior Lecturer in Health and Sociology, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Professor Eimear Muir-Cochrane
School of Nursing and Midwifery, Flinders University, South Australia
Dr Trish Nagel
Consultant Psychiatrist, Top End Mental Health Services, Casuarina, Northern Territory; Senior Lecturer, Flinders University, South Australia; Senior Lecturer, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia
Professor Louise Newman
Professor, Perinatal and Infant Psychiatry, Faculty of Health, University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
Associate Professor Jan Nicholson
Principal Research Fellow, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Dr Louise O’Brien
School of Nursing and Midwifery, College of Health and Science, University of Western Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Mr Anthony O’Brien
Mental Health Nursing, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Ms Mary O’Hagan
Consultant, writer and speaker. Mary O’Hagan Limited, Wellington, New Zealand
Ms Abbie Patterson
Auseinet, Communications Coordinator, Flinders University, South Australia
Associate Professor Leon Petchkovsky
Department of Psychiatry, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Ms Teresa Petric
Clinical Service, NSW Transcultural Mental Health Centre, Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia
Associate Professor Daniel Phillips
Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Lindsey Wilson College, Columbia, Kentucky, USA
Associate Professor Jane Pirkis
Centre for Health Policy, Programs and Economics, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Dr Judy Proudfoot
Black Dog Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, New South Wales, Australia
Dr Andrea Reupert
Lecturer, School of Education, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia
Dr Gary Robinson
School of Social and Policy Research, Institute of Advanced Studies, Charles Darwin University, Northern Territory, Australia
Professor Louise Rowling
President, INTERCAMHS (International Alliance for Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Schools), University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Ms Ann Rymill
Dual Disability Program, Disability SA, Adelaide, South Australia
Dr Sujata Satapathy
Assistant Professor, Disaster Mental Health and Trauma Counselling, National Institute of Disaster Management (Ministry of Home Affairs), New Delhi, India
Ms Linda Saunders
School of Nursing and Midwifery, Flinders University, South Australia
Dr Jeanie Sheffield
School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Dr John Shephard
Director, People Health Community, New South Wales, Australia
Mr Clive Skene
Southern CAMHS, Division of Mental Health, Flinders Medical Centre, Bedford Park, South Australia
Ms Kathleen Stacey
Beyond…Therapy Consultancy Training, Adelaide, South Australia
Dr Helen Stallman
The Parenting and Family Support Centre, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Ms Sarah Stewart
Coordinator Community Mental Health Education, NSW Institute of Psychiatry, Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia
Dr Anne Sved Williams
Senior Clinical Lecturer, Director, Perinatal and Infant Mental Health, Children, Youth and Women's Health Service, Adelaide, South Australia
Ms Jan Thompson
Senior Lecturer, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Flinders University, South Australia
Mr Greg Turner
State-Wide Liaison and Policy Coordinator, Queensland Transcultural Mental Health Centre, Brisbane, Australia
Dr Karen Turner
Deputy Director, Parenting and Family Support Centre, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Dr Julie Van den Eynde
School of Social Work and Applied Human Services, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Ms Irene Verins
Senior Project Officer, Mental Health and Wellbeing Unit, Victoria Health Promotion Unit, VicHealth, Melbourne, Australia
Dr David Vicary
Adjunct Professor, School of Psychology, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia
Associate Professor Tracey Wade
School of Psychology, Flinders University, South Australia
Dr Darryl Wade
Senior Clinical Fellow, Australian Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Dr Mark Welch
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Associate Professor Eileen Willis
Faculty of Health Sciences, Flinders University, South Australia
Professor Helen Winefield
School of Psychology and Discipline of Psychiatry, University of Adelaide, South Australia
Professor Tony Winefield
School of Psychology, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia
Dr Christine Wood
Honorary Research Associate, School of Psychology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
Dr Tahereh Ziaian
School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia
Guidelines for Peer Reviewers
The Role of the Reviewer. Reviewers should see their role as fundamental to the development and protection of the quality of the journal. It is the reviewer's responsibility to make sure that only high quality papers are published, and that the author(s) are protected from putting poor work into print. From this perspective, the reviewer should not only read the papers thoroughly to find flaws, but should also make recommendations to the author(s) as to how the paper might be improved.
Conflict of Interest. Before reviewing a paper, the reviewer should make sure that there is no conflict of interest in his/her reviewing the paper. Although AeJAMH practices blind review it is nevertheless possible that a reviewer may be able to recognise the identity of an author. In such cases if a reviewer feels that his/her decision will be affected, he/she should return the paper to the Editor, stating the conflict of interest. Also, if a reviewer feels that his/her confidence in the review is not high (e.g. the technical content of the paper is not in his/her main research area), he/she should return the paper to the Editorial Manager and suggest a more suitable person.
The Review. A review consists of 6 parts: (1) originality of the paper, (2) argumentative soundness, (3) significance, (4) clarity of presentation, including the style and English, (5) relevance to the journal, and (6) length (relative to the useful contents of the paper).
The Recommendation. The reviewer should make a general recommendation to the Editor in Chief, stating whether he/she thinks that the paper is acceptable, or what could be done to make it acceptable.
The overall recommendation might be:
Reject. The paper is regarded not suitable for publication in AeJAMH. The author(s) may be encouraged to incorporate the changes suggested by the reviewers and resubmit the paper as a new paper.
Resubmit after a major revision. A second round of review will be necessary. Author(s) should prepare a revision and resubmit it for a second round of review by the same set of reviewers. A letter explaining the changes made in the revised paper will be required from the author(s) if they choose to send in a revised paper. This letter will accompany the revised paper and be sent to the same set of reviewers.
The Paper Requires Minor Changes. Author(s) will be asked to revise the paper and resubmit with a letter to the Editor, explaining changes made to address the reviewers' comments. The revised paper will not go through another round of review. The Editor will make the recommendation for publication to the Editor-in-Chief.
Accept. The paper is accepted as it is, or the paper should be accepted but there are some potential improvements that the author(s) have the option to make.
Timeliness of Reviews. Reviews should be completed and returned to the Editor within four weeks. In case of delay, the reviewer should contact the Editor with a date on which the review can be returned.