The Clinical Sociology Review (CSR) is an open-access journal of the Clinical Sociology division (RC46) of the International Sociological Association and the Department of Sociology at the University of Johannesburg. Collaborating organizations in this effort are the Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology (United States), Nodo Sur- América Latina – RISC (Uruguay), Réseau International de Sociologie Clinique - RISC (Paris, France), Sociologie clinique (CR19) of the Association Internationale des Sociologues de Langue Franҫaise (AISLF) and Sociologie clinique (RT16) of the Association Française de Sociologie (AFS).
Clinical sociology is a creative, interdisciplinary, humanistic and rights-based field that focuses on analysis and intervention to understand social phenomena by taking into account social and psychological dimensions and contributing to better individual and collective living on our planet. The journal welcomes accessible and engaging contributions from various disciplines that will help us examine and understand and thus give us keys to reducing and resolving problems at all intervention levels, from individual to global.
The CSR was the official journal of the Clinical Sociology Association. It first was published in 1982, and the final issue, Volume 16, was published in 1998. The 16 volumes are all available on Wayne State University’s website at https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/csr/. The relaunch of the CSR started with volume 17. The new CSR is published by UJ Press and is available at https://journals.uj.ac.za/index.php/csr.
The new Clinical Sociology Review is a peer-reviewed and open-access journal that publishes English, French and Spanish contributions. The author submits in one of the three languages, and the translation of a contribution in the other two languages will be available on the website. There is no fee for submission or publication. Submissions are accepted throughout the year. There is no specific deadline for submissions. Two issues are published per year.
Contributions are welcome to the journal’s three sections: The History of Clinical Sociology, Articles and Resources. The History section contains articles about the field's history and introductory pieces to historical publications by clinical sociologists. The Articles section contains short and long submissions such as research articles, essays, teaching or training discussions, and intervention work. The Resources section can include many kinds of submissions. It could, for instance, provide reviews of one or more films or books as well as invited pieces about clinical sociology membership organizations, programs or services (such as program accreditation or individual certification).