Psychological Distress in Childhood Well-Being
A special issue of Children (ISSN 2227-9067). This special issue belongs to the section "Child and Adolescent Psychiatry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2024 | Viewed by 1200
Special Issue Editors
Interests: obsessive compulsive disorder; therapeutic approaches in OCD; psychopathology in syndromes; child/adolescent psychopathology; child/adolescent social area; cognitive neuroscience
2. Chair of Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry Unit, Department of Neuroscience, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, IRCCS, 00146 Rome, Italy
Interests: child psychiatry; developmental neuropsychology; memory development; dyslexia and ADHD; mental retardation (Down and Williams syndrome)
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Interests: attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD); developmental trajectories; psychopathological characterization; predictors of treatment response
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The age of development is characterized by transition stages that may expose children/adolescents to psychological difficulties or mental health problems.
The changes related to growth in young children as well as the relational and emotional experiences in older children characterize delicate moments of transition.
Emotional responses, frustration management, and peer adaptive skills constitute an observation point of the well-being of young children, as well as the ability of attentional/motor regulation in the activities that children must carry out at school or, at a later age, the ability of adolescents to integrate a new image of themselves in the perception of a growing body in a healthy way. These represent delicate moments that require solid individual resources but also attention and educational sensitivity in parenting.
Today, we are witnessing an early age of onset of both psychological difficulties and mental health problems. The current reality in fact requires a prompt ability to adapt in the various contexts of life as well as cognitive and emotional resource functioning.
New technologies of sharing, including artificial intelligence, today require times and ways of relational and integration of oneself and the other that can encourage the development of risky behaviors or evolutionary trajectories of development of pathological personalities.
The goal of this Special Issue is to deepen our knowledge of these delicate stages of transition in the age of development that characterize children and adolescents to better understand the risk factors, significant clinical behaviors, and innovative assessments for diagnosis as well as new therapeutic approaches that stimulate individual and family resources and can allow the recovery of healthy and harmonious growth.
We invite manuscripts that deal with the psychological and mental health problems of neurodevelopment, hyperactive/inattentive areas, and oppositive–provocative behavior up to conduct disorder with possible psychopathological evolutionary trajectories, as well as eating disorders, obsessive compulsive disorders, anxiety/depressive or psychotic disorders in adolescence, and those related to Internet addiction such as sexuality issues.
We require original research papers, short reports, reviews, and meta-analyses, and encourage the submission of proposals for interdisciplinary work and multinational collaborative research. We look forward to receiving your contributions and creating a Special Issue with the aim of providing readers with updated research data and new key readings in understanding the mental health of children and adolescents.
Dr. Francesco Demaria
Prof. Dr. Stefano Vicari
Dr. Pietro De Rossi
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- neurodevelopmental disorders
- hyperactive/inattentive area
- psychopathological trajectories
- eating disorders
- obsessive compulsive dimensions/disorders
- adolescent psychopathology
- parental psychological distress
- new technologies/artificial intelligence
- child/adolescent social/cultural consideration
