title: Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services
text: # Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services
  
  The Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services is a monthly peer-reviewed nursing journal for psychosocial and mental health nurses. It includes sections on psychopharmacology, mental health care of older adults, addictive behaviors and diagnoses, and child/adolescent disorders and issues. The editor-in-chief is Mona Shattell (Rush University). The journal was established in 1963 and published bimonthly. In 1978, the publication frequency increased to monthly.
  
  ## Abstracting and indexing
  
  The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
  
  * CINAHL
  * Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences
  * Embase
  * Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed
  * PASCAL
  * ProQuest databases
  * PsycINFO
  * Science Citation Index Expanded
  * Scopus
  * Social Sciences Citation Index
  
  According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 0.608.
  
  