This month, Walden University published the inaugural issue of the Journal of Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences. This online, peer-reviewed journal focuses on interdisciplinary research and practice, and encourages the exchange of ideas between researchers and practitioners.

The first issue includes the following articles by scholar-practitioners in the Walden community and from other institutions:

• “The Gap between What We Know and What We Do about Childhood Obesity: A Multi-factor Model for Assessment, Intervention, and Prevention”
• “Vulnerability For Drug Use Among Polydrug-Using Urban Youth and Young Adults”
• “Linking Beauty and Health Among African American Women: Using Focus Group Data to Build Effective Interventions”
• “Pretreatment Variables for the Innovative Application of Urine Alarm Treatment for Young Children in Fourteen Outpatient Clinics in Israel”
• “Relations of Changes in Self-Efficacy, Exercise Attendance, Mood, and Perceived and Actual Physical Changes in Obese Women: Assessing Treatment Effects Using Tenets of Self-Efficacy Theory”
• “Effects of the Youth Fit For Life Protocol on Physiological Factors, Mood, Self-Appraisal, Voluntary Physical Activity, and Fruit and Vegetable Consumption in Children Enrolled in YMCA After-School Care”

The journal has an open call for papers.

December Ponder front page