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Licensing Terms
All articles published in International Journal of Counseling and Psychotherapy (IJCP) are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license. Under this license, users are free to share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format) and adapt (remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially), provided that appropriate credit is given and any derivative works are distributed under the same license as the original..
Copyright and Publishing Rights
To protect the intellectual property of the authors while ensuring the widespread dissemination of scholarly work, the journal applies the following copyright ownership and publishing rights:
- Authors retain the copyright to their work without restrictions.
- Authors grant International Journal of Counseling and Psychotherapy (IJCP) the right of first publication to publish and distribute the work digitally and/or in print.
- Authors retain full publishing rights without restrictions and are permitted to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository, personal website, or publish it in a book), provided that its initial publication in IJCP is properly acknowledged.
Self-Archiving Policy
Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., preprints in institutional repositories or on their personal website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive scholarly exchanges and earlier citation of the published work.









