Editorial: Promoting children’s rights: rekindling respectivity1

“By the crowd they have been broken; by the crowd they shall be healed. ” (Sandra L. Bloom) The past few years have been a productive period for the SAJP. We recently learned that the SAJP’s impact factor for 2011 was 0.457, while the five-year impact factor is 0.630. These statistics confirm the SAJP’s standing as the leading psychology journal on the continent, and, for this achievement, I wish to thank the core editorial staff as well as our colleagues at PsySSA for their tireless efforts. The downward trend that emerged a few years ago has now been reversed, and further growth can be expected as the SAJP will be published both online and in hard copy format from 1 January 2013. As I page through this issue of the SAJP, I must commend Prof. Kate Cockcroft on soliciting eight excellent articles for her guest issue, which will provide interesting reading for all colleagues working in neuropsychology and related fields. The general section, too, contains a number of out-standing articles. The contributions are again diverse in terms of institution, gender, and international profile. Several of the contributions are from black authors, but we would like even more established and emerging black researchers to use the SAJP as an outlet for their research. This is the penultimate issue of the SAJP with me as editor (as readers may be aware, Prof. Anthony Pillay will assume editorship from 1 January 2013). In this issue, I would like to air an issu