Symposium is a peer-reviewed journal and this might be an excellent opportunity for early career researchers, graduate students, and industry professionals. Please reach out if you are interested in discussing this in more detail. Happy to chat about it.

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Something like that.

Kate is awesome.

This grant marks an important step in advancing music therapy’s role in supporting recovery and mental health across the state.

Congratulations to Dr. Myers-Coffman!

Their team's yearlong study will expand programming at the Indianapolis Comprehensive Treatment Clinic, establish collaborations with three methadone clinics in high-need Indiana counties, and pilot tailored programming at Dove Recovery House, a residential recovery center for women.

Indeed. Been on both sides of it unfortunately!

I appreciate the perspective. We'll see what happens!

I have no issue submitting elsewhere. I also don't disagree with many of the comments. It just feels like lazy editing. We do this in good faith and it feels somewhat dismissive not to find a compromise towards publication. Maybe I'm wrong, though.

I get that competitive journals don't have a lot of space. I'm puzzled by this one because it's not the first time it's happened, and I'm confused as to why they would reject the positive feedback and only focus on the new comments brought on by nitpicky reviewers. What am I missing here?

We're coming up on a year of work. I'm not new to rejection. But I can't help but be frustrated. Stringing along R&Rs without a reasonable set of expectations is a waste of time. I've asked them to reconsider their decision. As an editor, I find R&Rs are generally a path towards publication. Odd.

After addressing a reviewer's concerns, that person somehow identified NEW issues as a result of what they asked me to change. So, the editors send out to a fourth reviewer, not familiar with the context, who wasn't happy. The journal rejects with no particular reason. I'm torn on this one for sure.