Aims and scope
Journal of Military Social Work and Behavioral Health Services is the flagship journal aggregating current knowledge about the biopsychosocial health and well-being of service members, veterans, and families impacted by military service.

The journal will disseminate peer-reviewed, high-quality behavioral health research related to this population to a broad domestic and international, multidisciplinary audience. Disciplines whose work contributes to the corpus of Military Behavioral Health knowledge include, but are not limited to: Social Work, Psychology, Public Health, Medicine, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Sociology, Organizational Behavior, and Anthropology. Research found in Journal of Military Social Work and Behavioral Health Serviceswill adhere to the National Institutes of Health Guidelines of behavioral and social sciences research in that it is not restricted by discipline or methodological approach, but is characterized by the following attributes:

an emphasis on theory-driven research;
the search for general principles of behavioral and social functioning;
he importance ascribed to a developmental, lifespan perspective that reflects resilience as well as challenges;
an emphasis on individual variation, and variation across sociodemographics categories such as gender, age, and sociocultural status; and a focus on both the social and biological contexts of behavior.
Topics of interest to the journal include behavioral health issues at both the micro and macro levels.