Focus and Scope

In the field of public health, the area of mental health and psychosocial care (smaps) stands out for its academic strength, its political weight and its intersectoral character. The magazine Notebooks Brazilian Mental Health / Brazilian Journal of Mental Health is a publication that is consistent with these characteristics. Binds the Research Group on Health Policy / Mental Health - GPPS, the Federal University of Santa Catarina - UFSC, where is its scientific effective up and publishing in collaboration with other federal universities, represented by its Board National Editorial and other educational and research institutions, represented on its Board international Editorial. The magazine is published in collaboration with the Brazilian Association of Mental Health, representative body of the mental health field in the country. Publishes articles in several modes focused on the dissemination of knowledge in Public Health applied to smaps, thus favoring the flow of a pordução of fruitful knowledge, and conveys important information in the panorama of Public Health and the continued construction of the Unified Health System in Brazil .

MISSION

It is an electronic journal which aims to use the SEER system (Electronic Publishing System of Scientific Journals), whose mission is to encourage the exchanges necessary to the affirmation of the mental health interdisciplinary, as demanded by the National Mental Health Policy in the context SUS construction. The focus is the publication of scientific papers using different methodologies in research applied to mental health. OBJECTIVES The overall objective is the regular, quarterly, the magazine Notebooks Brazilian Mental Health / Brazilian Journal of Mental Health, contributing to the development of the Unified Health System and the advancement of knowledge about mental health and psychosocial care within the fields technical and academic.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES OF THE REVIEW

1. To publish original articles, with high scientific merit that contribute to knowledge in mental health and Psychosocial Care

2. Disseminate knowledge produced in Mental Health within the Public Health

3. To publish review articles, professional services and experience reports, critical essays and reviews pertaining to issues related to the field of mental health

4. Encourage inter-actions through the participation of academics linked to various institutions of higher education in the editorial body.

SECTION POLICIES:

Theses, dissertations, monographs and CBTs:

Publication of abstracts of theses, dissertations, monographs and other TCCs on matters pertaining to the field of mental health and psychosocial care. The work should be defended and finally approved by the academic bodies which were presented. For publication abstracts will be evaluated by two parecereistas permanent body of the magazine that issue their opinions through proper form, in anonymity regime and following principles and norms set forth in the Instructions for Authors.

Special section: Arte e Saúde Mental / Arts and Mental Health

Events

News and information about events, conferences and meetings related to the field of Mental Health.

Peer Review Process

The journal takes the evaluation process by peers, by using the type blind review (double blind). In this case it sends the manuscript to at least two evaluators from different institutions of the authors.

All submitted manuscripts are preliminarily evaluated by the executive editorship for suitability to the adopted rules, and documents "instructions to authors" and "policies for authors." Then they are sent to two reviewers who will give their opinions on the basis of criteria linked to the originality, appropriateness to scope and magazine focus, relevance of work and academic quality, proposing approval, approval with corrections or manuscript publication of refusal in the magazine. All evaluators are doctors linked to educational institutions and national and international research. The opinions are decided with finality by at least one member of the Editorial Board. The technical review of the texts and standardization to the journal's style complete the review process. The anonymity of authors and reviewers will be guaranteed throughout the trial process. The standard time for completion of an evaluation is expected to average duration of six months.

The books editors Brazilian Mental Health / Brazilian Journal of Mental Health are committed to the goal of reaching every four months.

They may be edited special issues (supplements), both because of possible demands in terms of the volume of approved articles or relevant and specific topics of interest to the area, at the discretion of the Editorial Board. Supplements are coordinated by at least three members of the Editorial Board, and one of the Scientific Editor and the other guest editors. All articles submitted in the supplement will be evaluated with the same criteria for evaluating articles in no special numbers. It will be up to Supplement the Scientific Editor the final decision on the publication of articles.

The authors of articles accepted for publication must sign a statement of transfer copyright of the manuscript to the journal is not allowed, except in exceptional cases (Ex .: reproduction of historical texts) and according to the editors of the journal, publication or reproduction of even in other journals. They are accepted as publishable manuscripts simple translation of articles published in other languages and magazines.

The Journal adopts the Creative Commons 2.5 license.

Publication Frequency

The journal is made up of scientific articles with a quarterly periodicity.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that freely available scientific knowledge to the public supports a greater global democratization of knowledge. The primary audience is composed of researchers, teachers and students who develop studies and research on issues facing the thematic areas of the Journal.

Sponsors

We thank the management of the Health Sciences Center of UFSC, ABRASME and the UFSC Periodic Incubator for institutional support.

• GPPS - Grupo de Pesquisas em Políticas de Saúde/Saúde Mental - UFSC

Journal History

Brazilian Journal of Mental Health was created in 2008 in collaboration between the Research Group on Health Policies - GPPS of the Federal University of Santa Catarina - UFSC and the Brazilian Association of Mental Health - Abrasme. It aims to disseminate knowledge in the field of Collective Health, in the field of Mental Health and Psychosocial Attention - SMAPS. It was established as the only regular scientific journal in this field, presenting national and international articles, based on research, opinion, essays, interviews and other modalities pertinent to the field of Collective Health and the SMAPS area. He has incorporated, in his trajectory, important names of the field in his national and international editorial board. One of its objectives is to be protagonist, with the scientific identity, in the sanitary and psychiatric reform process that is happening in Brazil concomitant to the consolidation of SUS.