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Since Behavioral Residential Treatment (BRT) was first published in 1986, it has focused on research involving the utilization of behavioral techniques primarily in relatively large residential treatment settings (e.g., congregate care facilities). These techniques have included behaviorally oriented strategies used in the assessment and treatment of clients, as well as behavioral assessment/ evaluation, training and management techniques used with staff. Obviously, the two principal variables for BRT have been residential environments and behavioral treatment. The journal will continue to focus on the use of behavioural interventions in residential settings; however, beginning with Volume 9 there are two changes. First, in response to the continued growth in the use of small community-based programs (residential and outpatient) for various clinical populations, the scope and content of the journal have been expanded to include the presentation and discussion of research findings and issues pertinent to these settings. Whereas in the past BRT focused specifically on residential environments (e.g., congregate care facilities), it will now address issues indigenous to these settings as well as other clinical settings (i.e., partial hospitalization programs, community group homes, day care, schools, etc.).
Secondly, the title of the journal will be changed in 1994 to Behavioral Interventions: Theory and Practice in Residential and Community-Based Clinical Programs (BIN) for the purpose of conveying the expanded scope and content of the journal.
BIN will continue in the tradition of BRT of publishing articles that provide professionals with practical and timely research findings and other information pertaining to residential, and now with the launch of BIN, other applied settings. Accordingly, BIN will publish: (1) research articles (research that employs experimental or correlational methodology utilizing within-or between-participant designs); (2) brief reports (a sound brief report of an innovative technique that is somewhat less rigorous than a research report); and (3) literature reviews and discussion articles.
The Editorial Board members and I are committed to ensuring that Behavioral Interventions serves as an important source and outlet for information for pro-
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