Reduction of Stress, Anxiety and Depression among University Teachers and Students

Dear Colleagues,

Nowadays, treatment technologies—both psychopharmacological and psychotherapeutic—abound, and we have seen increases in consultations with health services and in the consumption of medications. However, the prevalence of anxiety, depression, and stress is not exhibiting a proportional decrease. Although the prevalence rates observed during the pandemic period and the financial crisis have been explained by contextual causal variables, which produced perceptions of a lack of control, fear, uncertainty, and fatigue, we nevertheless believe that the persistence of this high prevalence in the face of the multiplicity of tools available to combat it raises some important questions: Is the high prevalence a consequence of treatments that lack effectiveness? Does the persistence of a high consumption of medications result from the liberalization of prescription drugs and self-medication? Are survey data really accurate? Do the different measures (such as questionnaires and scales) correspond to each other in terms of identifying clinical and non-clinical severity? Could these measures be inflating values? Are theoretical diagnostic models what causes contextual mood disorders to be identified as and transformed into clinical diagnoses? Or do we need to find healthier models? To answer these and other related questions, aiming to find answers that reduce stress, anxiety, and depression—targeting both the teaching and student populations—we invite you to submit your research.

Prof. Dr. Jos Aparecido Da Silva
Guest Editor

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