Second Edition of Individualized Bio-Psychosocial Interventions—New Horizons in Psychiatric Practice and Public Mental Health

Dear Colleagues,

Coordinated and interdisciplinary efforts in psychiatry and public mental health are highly important to improve knowledge on personalized treatment for people across their life. The OECD and the European Commission estimate the costs and consequential costs of mental illness in general for the year 2019 at around 4.3% of the gross domestic product (GDP) at around 13.9 billion euros, which in addition to the financial economic damage also means extremely high individual and family mental stress (cf. burden of disease). Mental illnesses such as anxiety, affective disorders including depression, and somatic distress disorders or mixed forms have now overtaken somatic illnesses in the ranking of the most common clinical pictures. Studies show that the COVID-19 pandemic and its accompanying symptoms have serious effects on the mental health of the population, and especially as a result of the experienced restriction of autonomy or severe limitation of social contacts, psychological and somatic stress especially in children and adolescents have increased.

Integrated healthcare and research concerning best practice models are needed, as well as consequent educational efforts for psychiatric and psychotherapeutic trainees and their mentors. Healthcare effectiveness of psychotherapy depends on the training and qualitative development of psychotherapists.

This Special Issue invites papers that identify putative specific models of healthcare, their integrative establishment, mechanisms of change in different psychotherapy modalities and treatment settings, psychotherapy process and treatment measures, and papers reviewing the state-of-the-art practices in the field. New horizons in educational efforts and training are very welcome, and assessment of psycho-social skills appreciated. Further, papers focusing on the cost-effectiveness of psychological and social interventions as well as papers integrating a neuroscientific approach and a bio-psychosomatic view are invited.

Dr. Henriette Löffler-Stastka
Prof. Dr. Johannes Wancata
Dr. Andrea Saliba
Dr. Nigel Camilleri
Guest Editors

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• mental health
• new horizons
• training model
• precise intervention
• integrated care

• Individualized Bio- Psycho- Social Interventions for Youth with Mental Disorders in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (15 articles)