The Journal of Humanistic Counseling
Last updated ISSN 2159-0311
The Journal of Humanistic Counseling is published by Wiley in psychology. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $2,900.
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What it publishes
Recent work in The Journal of Humanistic Counseling concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Counseling Practices and Supervision
- Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics
- Child Therapy and Development
- Psychological Treatments and Assessments
- Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology
- Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
Key facts
| Publisher | Wiley |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 2159-0311, 2161-1939 |
| Subject area | Psychology |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $2,900 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Emerging Sources Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 407 |
| Publishing since | 2011 |
| Journal website | onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)2161-1 |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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