NARMH NOTES
Do you have an essay, journal article, poem, clinical note, or story you would like to share with the NARMH membership? Do you want to see your work have a positive impact on the behavioral health and welfare of rural communities? Do you want to tell the rural story through photography, poetry, or another art form? Do you have evidence of a “best” or “emerging” practice to share, but cannot find a publishing venue to do so? Guess what… The opportunity is now available.
After careful consideration, your NARMH board of directors is reviving NARMH NOTES in its efforts to provide communication tools to the membership. NARMH NOTES is intended to be primarily an electronic newsletter offered to members and other interested groups as a vehicle for learning about promising practices for serving the mental health needs of rural people. NARMH NOTES will be published periodically electronically and provided as a membership benefit. Selected works may be offered open access on the NARMH website, but it will remain largely to membership.
The NARMH NOTES editorial committee expects submissions to be a combination of articles, clinical notes, emerging/best practices, stories, poems, pictorial essays, and related written or visual products aimed at informing our work. Items may be submitted for publication by practitioners, consumers, educators, administrators, students, and others interested in improving the access and availability of services in rural and frontier areas. These works will be peer-reviewed as appropriate, and while a work can be rejected, the goal of the editorial board is to help foster quality research and scholarship and are willing to work with author(s) to achieve the goal of publication.
Publication Formats
Scholarly articles should be between a 3,500- & 5000-word limit and will be peer-reviewed. Longer works may be considered. The NARMH NOTES Editor may encourage author(s) to submit works to the Journal of Rural Mental Health (JRMH) before considering for publication in NARMH NOTES on a case-by-case basis. Submitted works may be quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods, must follow APA writing style guidelines, and must have properly cited references. AI generated written works will not be accepted. Student work is encouraged.
Other types of written work such as clinical notes and best and emerging practices are limited to a 2500-word limit and are expected to follow APA writing guidelines. Poetry, photography, and other art forms will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Exceptions to the word limits are at the discretion of the Editor.
Submissions will be accepted at any time. At this moment, the NARMH NOTES editorial team expects to publish NARMH NOTES bi-annually, with the possibility of increasing issues and adding special topics publications as needed.
All articles should be submitted to with the heading: NARMH NOTES SUBMISSION and a cc: to P……@mnsu.edu. Once received, the lead author will receive an email confirmation. Questions or concerns should be shared with Dr. Paul F.E. Mackie, Editor at P……@mnsu.edu.
NARMH NOTES Editorial Committee