About the Journal

The New Zealand Journal of Counselling is published by the New Zealand Association of Counsellors. The purpose of the Journal is to provide a forum for the sharing of research- and practice-based information, perspectives and innovative ideas regarding matters of common concern to counselling researchers and practitioners.

The editors welcome the submission of papers including research reports, commentaries, practice-based articles, case studies, and book reviews from researchers and practitioners in counselling and psychotherapy, including members of the New Zealand Association of Counsellors and others with interests relevant to the field of counselling.

The overriding criteria for selection are that the material is professionally relevant, the presentation is of high quality, and the writer has communicated effectively with readers.

Copyright

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Open Access Policy

This journal provides open access to all of its content. All articles, from 2024 onwards, are made available using a Creative Commons nonexclusive worldwide license (Attribution 4.0 International CC BY 4.0) electronic dissemination of the article via the Internet, and, a nonexclusive right to license others to reproduce, republish, transmit, and distribute the content of the journal. All articles prior to 2024 are freely available to read and download but not covered by a Creative Commons License. 

New Zealand Journal of Counselling does not charge any fees for submission, publication or access to articles.

Frequency

There is  at least one issue per year.

Peer Review Process

All articles will be reviewed by at least two referees before a decision regarding publication is made. In this double blind review process, the identities of both the author(s) and the referees will remain anonymous.

The editors reserve the right to make minor alterations or deletions to articles without consulting the author(s), as long as such changes do not materially affect the substance of the article. Authors will be contacted if clarification is required.

Submission does not guarantee publication. Furthermore, publication does not imply that the views expressed in any article represent those of the New Zealand Association of Counsellors.

The typical process to publication will be:

  • Submission of paper
  • Receipt acknowledged
  • Editors decide if the paper is ready for review
  • The paper is returned with comments or sent on to reviewers
  • Feedback to author following receipt of reviewers’ responses 
  • Resubmission following author modifications (if required)
  • Copy-edit
  • Proofs created
  • Publication.

Plagiarism Policy

All authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others, this has been appropriately cited or quoted. New Zealand Journal of Counselling reserves the right to use Turnitin software to screen any article for plagiarism. If evidence of plagiarism is found at any stage, (before or after the paper's publication), the author will be afforded an opportunity for rebuttal. If the arguments are found to be unsatisfactory, the manuscript will be retracted, and the author will be restricted from publishing in our Journal in the future. We accept all terms and conditions of COPE in relation to plagiarism.

Archiving and preservation

This Journal's content is preserved using the LOCKSS archiving system. LOCKSS is a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the Journal for purposes of preservation and restoration.