This is our second publication with this section in our journal which encourages and welcomes applied practice contributions from colleagues. These papers have an applied focus with scope for colleagues to offer work such as:

• Evaluations of practice, even if these are not methodologically at the standard required for contributions to the main journal (e.g., no control group),

• Conceptual reviews with implications for practice,

• Linked case studies in therapeutic and learning and behaviour areas of intervention,

• Reports from presentations and adapted student assignments,

• Research work put forward for psychologists' registration requirements.

Fuller details are noted below. Please contact Dr Susan Colmar, who edits this section of the journal if you wish to discuss your ideas, possibilities, probabilities or even the germ of an idea. Papers will be refereed; however criteria, particularly methodological, will be less restrictive than aiming for a full journal article. If you need some encouragement and assistance in preparing your paper, I am happy to guide you with my red pen.