Adolescent Mental Health: Current Issues and New Perspectives
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 April 2024) | Viewed by 1502
Special Issue Editor
Interests: clinical psychology; research design; psychological assessment; assessment of the psychosocial consequences of traumatic injuries or chronic illness, for both the individual and their familial caregivers; healthy ageing, particularly as related to environmental or design factors
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The World Health Organization officially defines an adolescent as someone between the ages of 10 and 19 years. Adolescence is recognized as a unique stage of human development and a crucial time for laying the foundations of good health.
Just as good physical health is more than the absence of disease, good mental health is more than the absence of distress. While reducing distress is the primary focus of much of the research undertaken in mental health, developing and maintaining good mental health over the long term also requires a focus on the factors that promote well-being.
This Special Issue welcomes the submission of literature reviews and reports describing the findings of research related to the mental health of adolescents. Papers can focus on issues associated with either reducing distress or enhancing well-being. Reports from quantitative studies employing either group design and inferential statistics or single-case experimental designs are preferred. However, focused and informative qualitative studies will also be considered. Studies on adolescents with either typical development or a developmental disability will be considered. Finally, reports pertaining to the impact of the mental health of adolescents on family caregivers will also be of interest.
Dr. Nigel V. Marsh
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- adolescents
- adolescence
- mental health
- psychological distress
- well-being
- psychosocial functioning
- typical development
- developmental disability
- transitions
- familial caregivers
- social media
