Supporting Emotional Well-Being and Psychological Health Outcomes in Young People with Long-Term Health Needs
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2017) | Viewed by 98132
Special Issue Editors
Interests: children and young people’s psychological services; chronic fatigue syndrome; children and young people’s services; diabetes; obesity; adolescent health; quality of life; transition
Special Issue Information
Nearly three in ten families will have a child who will be diagnosed with a chronic illness (defined as a condition lasting longer than three months, U.S. National Center for Health Statistics). One in ten children will have a chronic illness that is severe enough to substantially limit their daily life and demand extended care and supervision (Yeo and Sawyer, 2005, https://0-www-ncbi-nlm-nih-gov.brum.beds.ac.uk/pmc/articles/PMC555640/). Young people living with a chronic illness are more likely to suffer from emotional distress than healthy peers (https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-25/edition-3/adjusting-life-chronic-illness). An issue addressing the psychosocial issues and how to support emotional well-being is likely to attract interest from a wide variety of readers. We also aim to have a broad range of topics. Young adults and adolescents can access many different medical specialties, and there is enhanced need for this patient group to receive holistic care that address their medical, social, psychological and emotional needs, in a developmentally-appropriate way. There are now as many young people in the second decade of life (10–19 years) in the UK as children in the first (0–9 years), and adolescents aged 10–19 make up 12% of the population. As far as we are aware, this topic has not been addressed by the journal. Bringing a range of authors and topics together will be original in this context.
The aim of this Special Issue:
- To advocate for mental health and psychological wellbeing in children and young people and their families living with chronic illness.
- To highlight the holistic health outcomes of significance to young people and their families.
- To understand how the psychosocial model can support engagement with health and self-care.
- To highlight the need for appropriate and integrated psychological care for young people living with long term health needs.
- To provide interesting information, commentary and research on a wide variety of areas,
- To provide specific learning points for multidisciplinary HCPs working across children’s and adult services
- Explore areas for commissioning, future policy and practice in these areas via authors’ work.
- To provide specific future areas for research via authors’ work.
- An overview of the psychosocial model in medicine
- Adolescent neurological development and the implications for health and wellbeing
- Key issues in managing consultations with young people
- Families: understanding their changing role and supporting parents and carers.
- Transition: Helping services to meet the needs of young people
- Interventions to support integrated psychological care and holistic health outcomes
- Measuring outcomes:
- Voices and choices: How young people can help us in this work.
Prof. Deborah Christie
Dr. Gail Dovey-Pearce
Guest Editors
Submission
The issue would be invited authors only. Invited authors will provide a review of the literature in the areas they will be writing about.
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