Education and Treatment of Children: Manuscript Guidelines

Education and Treatment of Children (ETC) is devoted to the dissemination of information concerning the development of services for children and youth. A Primary criterion for publication is that the material be of direct value to educators and other child care professionals in improving their teaching/training effectiveness. Therefore, authors are required to compose their manuscripts in a clear, concise style that will be readily understood by the practitioners who are likely to make use of the information. Materials appropriate for publication include experimental research, data based case studies, research reviews, procedure or program descriptions, issue-oriented papers, and brief communications and inquiries. Non-experimental papers should emphasize the manner in which the described procedure, program, or issues relates to the practical concerns of professionals in the field. Experimental studies should demonstrate usefulness of the described procedure, adequacy of the data in showing a functional relationship between the procedures and observed behavior changes, and evidence that measures taken were reliable. ETC utilizes a broad base of researchers, educators, practitioners, and graduate students in the editorial review process.