The Counsel-ling Magazine accepts articles for publication from all sources, including a range of professionals. The article must be relevant to Counselling and Psychology.
Aims and scope
We welcome articles and other papers relating to the practice of counselling and allied fields. Our readers are interested in articles that offer practical information and knowledge in Counselling Psychology that: (a) Professionals in counselling practice can use in practice; (b) Clients and communities can make use of in everyday life, and (c) Articles that promote professionalism in Counselling practice and counsellor professional development. We do not encourage or publish opinion pieces, personal essays, promotional features or purely scholarly academic work.
The Counsel-ling Magazine demonstrates a critical understanding of the principles and debates related to Counselling Psychology and allied fields as demonstrated in various publications, including books, journals and research. Critical engagement with relevant concepts and literature is required for all submissions. Also, discussion of the implications and recommendations for practice should encompass a critical analysis and evaluation of strategies in actual practice as this is important to ensure relevance to our readers.
All articles submitted to The Counsel-ling Magazine are considered for publication on the strict condition that they have been submitted for publication and that they have not been published already, nor are they under consideration for publication elsewhere. Authors whose material has been published elsewhere before being submitted to The Counsel-ling Magazine are asked to inform the editor at the time of submission and provide appropriate documentation from the copyright holder granting permission to reprint the material.
Disclaimer
The Counsel-ling Magazine makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of all the information (the “Content”) contained in our publications. However, The Counsel-ling Magazine, our agents, and our licensors make no representations or warranties whatsoever as to the accuracy, completeness, or suitability for any purpose of the content. Any opinions and views expressed in this publication are the opinions and views of the authors and are not the views of or endorsed by The Counsel-ling Magazine. The accuracy of the content should not be relied upon and should be independently verified with primary sources of information. The Counsel-ling Magazine shall not be liable for any losses, actions, claims, proceedings, demands, costs, expenses, damages, and other liabilities whatsoever or howsoever caused arising directly or indirectly in connection with, in relation to or arising out of the use of the content.
Before submitting your article, kindly visit our website, The Counsel-ling Magazine and see The Counsel-ling Magazine writing guidelines.
The task of conceptualising counselling and the helping process in various communities and networks is important and challenging in which the content of The Counsel-ling Magazine encourages and supports. This is why we encourage reflective activities.
Tips for getting your article accepted and published by The Counsel-ling Magazine
The Counsel-ling Magazine is published quarterly with two special editions every year. Our mission is to promote professionalism in counselling. Please note that The Counsel-ling Magazine only publishes manuscripts in English.
The Counsel-ling Magazine accepts and reviews articles on Counselling and Psychology.
The Counsel-ling Magazine is not an academic journal and does not accept articles written in a literary style. We are interested in articles that offer practical information and knowledge in Counselling Psychology that: (a) Professionals in counselling practice can use in practice; (b) Clients and communities can make use of in everyday life, and (c) Articles that promote professionalism in Counselling practice and counsellor professional development. We do not encourage or publish opinion pieces, personal essays, promotional features or academic work.
In considering contributions for publication, the editor weighs space limitations, the relevance of the material to the audience (clients, counsellors, and public) and the professional counselling community. All articles will be accepted or rejected based on the quality of the writing, the practicality and value of the content, and whether an article of a similar nature or topic has appeared in the recent past edition.
Article length, acceptance and order of publication
The Counsel-ling Magazine articles are generally one to three pages (800 to 1,500 words). Shorter essays may be considered for our website, The Counsel-ling Magazine online (counsel-lingmagazine.co.ke). Submissions of articles are accepted throughout the year and are normally published in the order they are accepted. Please note that not all submissions are accepted for publication. Submissions may be accepted or rejected at the discretion of the editor.
Article Insights, ethics and professionalism
Articles should be written from a personal solid viewpoint and level of expertise. Suppose a particular article offers insight into aspects of life. In that case, the author should dedicate part of the article to highlight significance or importance to provide adequate information to readers. If the article is based on research, that should be stated in the article. An article that refers to an individual should be carefully done to avoid any embarrassment, and if necessary, permission should be obtained in writing to allow such citation.
Style and publication
The Counsel-ling Magazine is a periodical publication in the form of a magazine. The Counsel-ling Magazine articles adhere to publication ethics, including the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) publication guidelines and Associated Press style (authors should be familiar with these guidelines, including author responsibility for article and editing of articles conform to Associated Press style). The main point to remember regarding The Counsel-ling Magazine is that articles should be written in a reader-friendly manner.
Our preferred writing style is enthusiastic, thoughtful, and other times thought-provoking. We accept first-person (though third-person is acceptable, especially when asserts authority to the subject). We prefer articles in the present tense. The formal tone is acceptable though sometimes light-heartedness and humour can always reflect a passion for various topics.
Authors should acknowledge the contribution of others as part of professionalism. The specific idea, thought quote or theory attributed to a specific person or organisation should be included within the natural flow of the article. Use full names of organisations, authors and agencies when first mentioned, while abbreviations or acronyms may be used on the second reference.
Accuracy of information
Authors must verify all the relevant information, including spelling of names, titles, countries, information and institutions, before submitting material. The Counsel-ling Magazine does not assume responsibility for the accuracy of quotes, facts, figures or names in submitted copy. Verify titles and quotations from printed sources. Confirm any deadline dates in your copy. If the information that can be easily checked is inaccurate, the article will be subject to rejection.
Format / Submitting an Article
Please send all articles in Microsoft Word attachment via email to theditor@thecounsel-ling.co.ke, or talktoafred@thecounsel-lingmagazine.co.ke or the editor Dr Geoffrey Wango, gwango@thecounsel-lingmagazine.co.ke. You can do the article in single-spaced or double-spaced with a suggested headline and section headings.
Editorial Policies
Ensure that your article conforms to mandatory ethical principles, health and safety procedures aligned to your expertise. Utmost care must be taken on the identity of clients or any persons mentioned in The Counsel-ling Magazine. Articles, including headlines and section headings, may be edited and rewritten by the editorial staff for clarity and language. Articles are also subject to editing to meet space, grammar and style requirements.
Confidentiality of clients
Utmost care must be taken to disguise the identity of clients. Where the client or case-study material is presented on a particular client or clients which may enable the client’s identity to be recognised by him/herself or by others, written consent must be requested from the client concerned; assurance that such consent has been obtained should be provided to the editor, and should also, where appropriate be mentioned within the article as part of the description of the methodology used. The information must not harm the client. The editor can fail to publish an article based on infringing on a client. Any liability to clients on the grounds of infringing confidentiality belongs to the author(s).
Disclosure statement
Please include a disclosure of interest statement, using the subheading “Disclosure of interest.” If you have no interests to declare, please state this (suggested wording: The authors report no conflicts of interest). This must be included for persons working in organisations, consultancies, advocacy groups, issues involving payment (fee, honoraria or royalties), funded papers, research, and grant papers. All funding sources supporting the work should also be fully acknowledged. The editor may decide not to publish the article based on any declared conflict.
Professionalism, health and safety
Ensure that your article conforms to mandatory ethical principles, health and safety procedures aligned to your expertise. Please ensure your article contains all appropriate warnings on any hazards that may be involved in procedures you have described, or that may be involved in instructions, materials, or formulae. Please include all relevant safety precautions; and cite any accepted standard or code of practice. If an appropriate regulatory body has not yet approved any product or procedure for the use described in your article, please specify and highlight this or that the product is still investigational.
Copyright and Permissions
All articles submitted to The Counsel-ling Magazine is considered for publication on the strict condition that they have been submitted for publication. Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis), that it is not under consideration for publication or in press elsewhere and that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the authorities responsible where the work was carried out.
Authors whose material has been published elsewhere before being submitted to The Counsel-ling Magazine are asked to inform the editor at the time of submission and provide appropriate documentation from the copyright holder granting permission to reprint the material.
Authors whose material appears in The Counsel-ling Magazine are free to use the material elsewhere for information and other purposes. Authors have the rights to reuse, republish, archive, and distribute their articles after publication. The journal/publisher is not responsible for subsequent uses of the work. In such cases, an appropriate credit line such as: “Reprinted with permission from The Counsel-ling Magazine” (ct. thecounsel-lingmagazine@co.ke) including the month and year or Volume and Number are adequate.
Payment rates
The Counsel-ling Magazine does not pay for articles. However, we understand that authors may require assistance to prepare an article, including research and other preparations and thus, we offer honoraria of $50 per article published. Higher rates for more complex research assignments or those involving extra expenses may be arranged. Payment will be set at the time of assignment. Contributors will receive a complimentary copy of the issue in which their work appears and receive compensation upon publication.
Publication charges
There are no submission fees or page charges for The Counsel-ling Magazine.
For additional questions regarding submission, please email us at the following address: theditor@thecounsel-lingmagazine.co.ke, or talktoafred@thecounsel-lingmagazine.co.ke or the editor Dr Geoffrey Wango, gwango@counsel-lingmagazine.co.ke.
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Additional tips for getting your article accepted and published by The Counsel-ling Magazine.
The Counsel-ling Magazine encourages those who have never published their own stories and other artistic works and develop to the highest levels. The following additional tips will assist you in your writing:
1. Know our audience. Our audiences are often counsellors and clients as well as the general audience. Always keep in mind that you are writing directly to a professional audience and a general audience, depending on the topic.
2. Professionalism. We want our audience to appreciate counselling as a helping profession. Build trust with our readers by enabling our audience to gain knowledge and skills in general or specific areas covered in your article. This includes practical experiences, including handling certain issues. Professionalism, health and safety are of paramount importance.
3. Scholarly writing, review of the literature and general articles. The Counsel-ling Magazine refers to professional and scholarly journals, books and other publications. We also place a high value on professionalism and practitioners. If the article is specific or general, indicate the same. If it is a personal experience, outline the professional perspectives and experiences and mention additional research and references. We will be glad to place this, if necessary, in our online magazine at the counsel-lingmagazine@.co.ke. However, it is encouraging that you write articles with ideas that resonate on counselling, life and living and overall well-being.
4. Be precise. It would be prudent to complement and support the counselling profession. Therefore, be precise. That way, our audience will grasp the concept of helping and benefit as much.
5. Practical experiences. Allow your article to focus on practical experiences and aspects that resonate with counselling practitioners and clients. Our readers want to read articles on hands-on strategies, techniques and approaches that they can use with clients or in life. The audience wants to be provided with step-by-step guidance for using certain innovations. This includes the title of your article, general organisation and content. Highlight the practical tips, techniques, insights or lessons learned or that can be learnt. This will provide important information to our audience and enable our readers to accomplish certain things.
6 Tell our readers something they don’t know. We would be glad if you said something new or something is already known in a different or somewhat fresh way. We have opened The Counsel-ling Magazine to all out there to highly specialised professionals in diverse fields and upcoming professionals and writers who are never given a chance to say so much. Tell your story, sell your idea, and build others. Strive to make a difference in life, not as much as making a discovery but putting across an idea, detail or context. In the end, suggest an intervention strategy or way forward so that the audience can find something they can identify in your esteemed article.
7. Ensure accuracy of information. The Counsel-ling Magazine strives to be accurate on all counts. Always check and double-check your story information to ensure that all information is accurate. This includes names, dates, tables, numbers, figures, organisation names, titles, illustration, historical facts, caption details and other information.
Lastly, summarise your article. Provide a summary, recommendation or intervention strategy that resonates with your article. This is the primary purpose of your article.
For additional questions regarding submission, please email us at the following address: theditor@thecounsellor.co.ke, or talktoafred@thecounsellor.aco.ke or the editor Dr Geoffrey Wango, gwango@counsellor.co.ke.
See The Counsel-ling Magazine writing guidelines.
Sample articles
The Counsel-ling Magazine Article Review Guidelines
The review process is an essential aspect of the publication process of an article. It helps an editor decide on an article and enables the author to improve the manuscript.
Our magazine articles are reviewed before publication. Before an article is reviewed, it must be within our themes and sub-themes.
Conflict of interest (C.O.I.) exists when there is a divergence between an individual’s private interests (competing interests) and his or her responsibilities. This can affect an article. Authors should declare their conflicts of interest and omit articles if a conflict exists.
Articles are confidential materials given for publication. The review process is confidential. Details of the article and the review process will remain confidential during and after the review process.
The practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own is not allowed in scholarship. It is unethical for anyone to use the information without acknowledging the source or for their own or any other person’s or organisation’s advantage, or to disadvantage or discredit others.
Articles should be honest and objective. Articles and information contained thereof should not be influenced by:
- The religious, political or cultural viewpoint of the author
- Gender, race, ethnicity or citizenry of the author
In evaluating a manuscript, reviewers and editors focus on the following:
- Originality / creativity / innovativeness of article
- Contribution to counselling psychology
- Professionalism
- Quality (accuracy of information, objectivity, constructiveness and unambiguous)
- Clarity of presentation
- Depth of knowledge
- Professional ethics
Authors must adhere to policy guidelines, editorial policies and publication ethics. Language including drawings, pictures, tables and figures should be reader-friendly. Comments and suggestions should be backed by facts and constructive arguments regarding the content of the article.
The editor will only accept articles that they are confident that they can dedicate appropriate time for reviewing.
Authors must read and understand the writing guidelines.
For additional questions regarding submission, please email us at the following address: theditor@thecounsel-lingmagazine.co.ke, or talktoafred@thecounsel-lingmagazine.co.ke or the editor Dr Geoffrey Wango, gwango@counsel-lingmagazine.co.ke.
The Counsel-ling Magazine Checklist: what to include
- Title and subtitle. Give your article a title and provide subtitles for sections. The title should be concise and informative. The title is used in information-retrieval systems and should be short. You can also include a conclusion, recommendation or way forward (suggested interventions) at the end.
- Author details. Please include all authors’ full names, affiliations, postal addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses on the title page. The preferred form of an author’s name is the first name, middle initial(s), and last name; this form reduces the likelihood of mistaken identity. The authors’ affiliation identifies the location of the author(s) at the time of writing, which is usually an institution. Include a dual affiliation only if the two institutions are substantial to your undertakings. Include no more than two affiliations per author. If an author has no institutional affiliation, list the city/country or his/her residence. The authors’ names should appear in the order of their contributions, centred between the side margins. One author will need to be identified as the corresponding author, with their email address normally displayed in the article. If any of the named authors moves affiliation during the review process, this should be communicated to the editor.
- Photo (Optional). We encourage authors to provide photos of authors. Save the photo as a .jpg. You can embed it in the manuscript or save it as a separate file, labelled photo.
- Graphics and photos. You can opt to include photographs or illustrations (including figures, pictures, tables, diagrams, flow chart) in your article if they are relevant. You are convinced that they are part of your publication.
- Funding details. Please supply any particulars required by your organisation or funding and grant-awarding bodies as follows:
This work was supported by the [Funding Agency], is part of my work at [organisation].
- Disclosure statement. Acknowledge any financial interest or benefit that has arisen from the direct applications of your research or work in an organisation.
- Biographical note. Please supply a short biographical note and email for each author. This could be adapted from your profile, organisation website or academic networking profile. The note should be relatively brief (no more than 50 words).
- Supplemental online material. Supplemental material can be a video, dataset, file set, sound file or anything which supports (and is pertinent to) your paper. We publish supplemental material online.
Also, read Tips for Getting Your Article Accepted and published by The Counsel-ling Magazine.
For additional questions regarding submission, please email us at the following address: theditor@thecounsel-lingmagazine.co.ke, or talktoafred@thecounsel-lingmagazine.co.ke or the editor Dr Geoffrey Wango, gwango@thecounsel-lingmagazine.co.ke
American Counselling Association
American Psychological Association
• P.I.E. Guidelines for Reviewers
• COPE Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers
• ICMJE – Responsibilities in the Submission and Peer-Review Process
• WAME – Conflict of Interest in Peer-Reviewed Medical Journals
