The Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disability (JMHRID) is an interdisciplinary research journal that reports original scientific and scholarly contributions to advance knowledge about mental health issues among persons with intellectual disabilities and related developmental disabilities, especially autism spectrum disorders and genetic phenotypes. The journal will accept papers that address risk and protective factors for the full range of behavioral and psychiatric disorders as well as criminality.

JMHRID will publish scholarly contributions with an emphasis on empirically based research and will include:

• Empirical research on characteristics of persons with intellectual disabilities and mental health problems.
• Empirical research on risk and protective factors related to the development and/or prevention of mental health problems in persons with intellectual disabilities.
• Development of screening and diagnostic instruments
• Empirical research on the effectiveness of behavioral, psychosocial and pharmacological treatment procedures (including group and single subject designs).
• Critical or comparative literature reviews, including quantitative meta-analyses.
• Occasional conceptual reviews that provide for new understanding of theory or theoretical constructs will also be considered.
• Book reviews