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Promoting Mental Health and Wellbeing in Children and Young People at Risk

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Behavioral and Mental Health".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2024 | Viewed by 3629

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Marianne Singstad

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Regional Centre for Child and Youth Mental Health and Child Welfare (RKBU Midt-Norge), Department of Mental Health, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway
Interests: child and adolescent mental health; developmental psychology; adolescence; identity development; social support; social networks; early intervention; school research; child welfare; residential youth care
Prof. Dr. Ottar Ness

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WellFare: Nordic Research Centre for Wellbeing and Social Sustainability, Department of Education and Lifelong Learning, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Noway
Interests: wellbeing; recovery; mental health; substance abuse; citizenship; relational welfare; social justice
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues, 

There is an increased number of children and adolescents living with mental health problems, and the complexity in preventing and handling these challenges has been widely discussed in recent decades. Additionally, COVID-19 has shown that there is an urgent need to promote mental health and wellbeing for children and young people. Health-promoting strategies and the importance of interdisciplinary collaborations within and among different services at both the community and national levels are of significance to promoting children’s and young people’s mental health and wellbeing in this regard. For children and young people living in vulnerable life situations or at risk of developing mental health problems, a variety of risk factors might be significant contributors. These factors relate to both structures and relations within the family environment, growing-up conditions, institutional factors concerning daycare or schooling, child and adolescent services within the community, or personal factors within each individual. To encounter these potential complex needs of children and young people, early interventions and collaborations across disciplines and professions stand out as important contributions. 

This Special Issue on mental health in children and young people focuses on the current state of knowledge on children and young people living in vulnerable life situations or at risk of poor mental health, on practical implications for health-promoting actions, and on interdisciplinary collaborations between services to promote children’s and adolescents’ mental health and wellbeing. 

We welcome a diversity of articles, such as conceptual and empirical articles, reviews, critical comments, and meta-analyses, for submission to this Special Issue. We will accept manuscripts from different disciplines, addressing topics related to the scope.

Dr. Marianne Tevik Singstad
Prof. Dr. Ottar Ness
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2500 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • children at risk
  • mental health
  • wellbeing
  • health-promoting
  • early intervention
  • community
  • services
  • interdisciplinary collaboration

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Teen Perspectives on Suicides and Deaths in an Affluent Community: Perfectionism, Protection, and Exclusion
by Abigail Peterson and Carolyn Smith-Morris
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2024, 21(4), 456; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ijerph21040456 - 09 Apr 2024
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Clusters of youth suicide and death are tragic for communities and present long-term consequences for the surviving youths. Despite an awareness of community-based patterns in youth suicide, our understanding of the social and community factors behind these events remains poor. While links between [...] Read more.
Clusters of youth suicide and death are tragic for communities and present long-term consequences for the surviving youths. Despite an awareness of community-based patterns in youth suicide, our understanding of the social and community factors behind these events remains poor. While links between poverty and suicide have been well documented, wealthy communities are rarely targeted in suicide research. In response to this gap, we conducted ethnographic research in a wealthy U.S. town that, over a recent 10-year period, witnessed at least four youth suicides and seven more youth accidental deaths. Our interviews (n = 30) explored community values and stressors, interpersonal relationships, and high school experiences on participant perceptions of community deaths. Youth participants characterize their affluent community as having (1) perfectionist standards; (2) permissive and sometimes absent parents; (3) socially competitive and superficial relationships; and (4) a “bubble” that is protective but also exclusionary. Our qualitative findings reveal network influence in teen suicides and accidental deaths in a wealthy community. Greater attention paid to the negative effects of subcultural values and stressors in affluent communities is warranted. Further, our work promotes the value of ethnographic, community-based methodologies for suicidology and treatment. Full article
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Personal Stories of Young Women in Residential Care: Health-Promoting Strategies and Wellbeing
by Mira Aurora Marlow, Rita Sørly and Heli Kyllikki Kaatrakoski
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(24), 16386; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ijerph192416386 - 07 Dec 2022
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Interdisciplinary social work practice produces and circulates narratives of young women in residential care. The dominant narratives often present negative descriptions of this group, and less attention has been paid to their resistance to these “big stories”. This study’s aim is to illuminate [...] Read more.
Interdisciplinary social work practice produces and circulates narratives of young women in residential care. The dominant narratives often present negative descriptions of this group, and less attention has been paid to their resistance to these “big stories”. This study’s aim is to illuminate this resistance of young women in residential care and to explore how they narrate their experiences of being children at risk who have become women managing everyday life. This study utilises a narrative approach and includes three selected personal stories: two from the participants and one from the first author’s reflections on resistance. Through contextual analysis at the macro, meso and micro levels, we focus on how personal stories can influence interdisciplinary social work services. We found resistance to dominant narratives on the different levels in the chosen stories. Resistance can create space to reconstruct and renarrate reality together and help understand the meaning and power of storytelling and silence. Participants’ resistance can be a tool to rebalance the power between social work practitioners and service users. Based on this analysis, we suggest that interdisciplinary collaborative social work should emphasise service users’ personal stories to a higher degree and, in this way, increase user participation in residential care. Full article
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