You do not currently have permission to view the full text for this document. Please sign in to an account with an active subscription or contact support.
The publication of the 21st volume of the Journal of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy represents a milestone in our development. A special birthday, the 21st is frequently an occasion for important celebrations, differing according to history and culture, but a year frequently recognized in its significance. At this time, much as we do with those with whom we work clinically, we reflect upon our history, our mission, consider the environment in which we have matured, and the life events, which have contributed to and shaped our course of development. Rather than write a lengthy editorial about the road we have traveled as we have grown into a mature, internationally respected journal, I invite our readers to look back through the past years and toward the future, appreciating all who have, and continue to contribute to our journal while welcoming newer voices.
In this spirit, we introduce Volume 21, Issue I, with a re-print of the editorial, which announced our birth, written by our Founding Editor-in-Chief, Kirkland Vaughans, PhD, whose vision for JICAP we celebrate, and who we honor this year. Our current mission statement is also to be found on the journal’s website. And we hope you will look through our prior issues, all online, and available to subscribers through many libraries and databases throughout the world. We welcome your submissions.
We note the reverberations in our articles of world events we have shared, evolving theoretical perspectives, the multiplicity of psychoanalytic traditions, which inform our thinking and our openness to integration of other relevant clinical, and theoretical perspectives, including the research that supports them.
Being born at the beginning of the 21st Century, as a fledgling journal, new to the publishing world, we never anticipated the events that would soon impact all of us, and about which we would be presenting significant clinical and research articles. From 911 through the COVID-19 Pandemic, we have been col