該雜志發(fā)表了關(guān)于研究調(diào)查的文章，以增進對適用于所有年齡層、異常或異常行為(包括與醫(yī)療條件和創(chuàng)傷有關(guān)的行為)的精神病理學和精神障礙的理解，并構(gòu)建了人格描述。它促進了對正常和異常行為的評估、描述和分類、心理生物學因素誘發(fā)、誘發(fā)和維持心理病理學以及心理病理學和行為變化理論的探究。研究范圍包括正常人格結(jié)構(gòu)和積極的個人屬性，影響行為結(jié)果的個人和環(huán)境因素，以及影響正常和異常行為的認知、情感和行為資源因素的交互模型。該雜志包括關(guān)注治療干預的文章，并接受評論，部分元分析評論。

The journal publishes articles on research investigations that enhance understanding of psychopathology and mental disorders applicable to all ages, deviant or abnormal behaviors, including those related to medical conditions and trauma, and constructs descriptive of personality. It fosters inquiry into assessment, description, and classification of normal and abnormal behaviors, psychobiological factors predisposing, precipitating, and maintaining psychopathology, and theories of psychopathology and behavior change.Coverage spans studies of normal personality constructs and positive personal attributes, personal and environmental factors influencing behavioral outcomes, and interactive models of cognitive, emotional, and behavior resource factors as impacting normal and abnormal behaviors.The journal includes articles focusing on therapeutic interventions and accepts reviews, particurlary meta-analytic reviews.