As the profession of counseling continues to expand and diversie, each division of the American Counseling Association (ACA) offering a professional, scholarly journal must be knowledgeable and open about that journal's expansion and diversification. The Association for Adult Development and Aging (AADA), under the leadership of wise and experienced boards of directors throughout the years, has continued to expand member services that include the publishing of the Adultspan Journal. The major goal of our journal is that it enhance the developmental point of view concerning adulthood, life span, and transition relative to the varied aspects of the counseling profession, from the perspective of scholarship and research. As we proceed as an organization and as a profession, many challenges appear and will continue to appear at every turn. Counselors and mental health professionals, as well as those working with adults in many other capacities, are confronted daily with events and fears that most of us would never have thought possible. The positions held by AADNACA members, whether as clinicians, counselor educators, mental/physical health advos cates, or graduate students in the field, are vital to the society in which w; live; the sharing of information and creativity must be invited for publication as a means to that sharing, which is one part that the Adultspan Journal plays within the counseling profession. Our unique developmental perspective stands out among the various and prestigious journals attached to many of ACA's divisions, and it is our uniqueness that will be the focus of this piece; thus, we hope to encourage and enlighten those professionals interested in publishing in the Adultspan Journal.
Writing for publication is of utmost importance to academicians seeking promotion, tenure, recognition, and status within their field. Several editors of respected ACA journals have offered solid advice and counsel to prospective authors who choose to submit to scholarly counseling journals (Engels