Mental Health
A section of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383).
Section Information
Dear Colleagues,
Clinical psychology is one of the main theoretical–applicative branches of psychology. It includes the scientific study and the applications of psychology with regard to understanding, prevention, and intervention in individual, family, and group psychological and relational problems, including the management of many forms of psychopathology.
Central aspects are psychodiagnostics and psychotherapeutic intervention, which represents a specialized development aimed above all at taking charge of situations where there is a structured psychopathology.
Among the thematic nuclei of operational interest and clinical research, some can be exemplified as the prevention (primary and secondary) of personal discomfort; early identification and diagnosis of psychopathological risks; the cognitive, affective-emotional, psychosocial, behavioral, personality, social, and cultural factors that are at the origin of the disturbances or maintain the condition of discomfort; emotions and their regulation in relation to health and disease, with specific regard to affective dysregulations; the methods of clinical management of different types of individual, couple, family, and group disorders; the various forms of individual, couple, family, and group psychological counseling; the improvement of the effectiveness of psychodiagnostic techniques; the methods of managing emotional, relational or decision-making situations that arise in various life stages and contexts; the promotion of individual psychosocial wellbeing and in social contexts; the design of effective forms of psychological and psychosocial rehabilitation; and the assessment of the effectiveness of aid interventions and health prevention and promotion programs in different social contexts.
Modern clinical psychology is based on the evidence of scientific research and clinical experience and takes an interdisciplinary approach, also making use of the cognitive contributions of other psychological disciplines (in particular, cognitive psychology, psychology and dynamics, psychology of personality and differential psychology, psychology, neuropsychology clinical, social and group psychology, psychometrics) and nonpsychological, such as epidemiology, physiology, evaluative research, health sociology, etc.
Our journal will gather experiences from clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, and pediatricians from different areas and countries to acquire new perspectives in the vision and therapy of disorders that clinical psychology and developmental psychopathology deal with.
We sincerely welcome your submission to Journal of Clinical Medicine. Our readers are waiting for your contribution to Clinical Psychology.
Subject Areas
clinical psychology; psychodiagnostics and psychotherapeutic intervention; food disorders; attachment; anxiety; self-esteem; depression; personality; sleep; emotions; mental disorders
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Special Issues
Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Patient-Oriented Treatments for Bipolar Disorder (Deadline: 31 May 2024)
- Advances in Clinical Management of Bipolar Disorder: 2nd Edition (Deadline: 31 May 2024)
- Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prognosis of Neuropsychiatric Disorders (Deadline: 18 June 2024)
- Neuropsychopharmacology: Advances, Challenges and Opportunities (Deadline: 20 June 2024)
- Global Burden and New Trends in Emotional, Behavioral and Relational Problems of Children, Adolescents and Young Adults (Deadline: 20 June 2024)
- Updates on Neurostimulation: From Mechanistic Principles to Clinical Applications (Deadline: 25 June 2024)
- Psychiatry and Addiction: A Multi-faceted Issue (Deadline: 30 June 2024)
- Current Challenges and Management of Substance Use Disorders and Other Mental Health Problems (Deadline: 25 July 2024)
- Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Treatment and Management of Peripartum Depression (Deadline: 30 July 2024)
- Addictive Disorders and Clinical Psychiatry—Part II (Deadline: 31 July 2024)
- Neuro-Psychiatric Disorders: Updates on Diagnosis and Treatment (Deadline: 30 August 2024)
- The Alcohol Hangover: Clinical Advances in Causes, Consequences and Treatment (Deadline: 1 September 2024)
- Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment of Schizophrenia (Deadline: 20 September 2024)
- Clinical Research Progress on the Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome (Deadline: 20 September 2024)
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): Diagnosis, Treatment, and Management (Deadline: 25 September 2024)
- The Impact of the COVID-19 Emergency on the Quality of Life of the General Population, Part II (Deadline: 25 September 2024)
- Long-Term Clinical Strategies for Psychiatric Rehabilitation (Deadline: 30 September 2024)
- Effect of Long-Term Insomnia on Mental Health (Deadline: 30 September 2024)
- Eating Disorders: Current Epidemiology and Advances in the Diagnosis and Treatment (Deadline: 10 October 2024)
- Gender Dysphoria: Current Approach to Clinical Care and Research (Deadline: 25 October 2024)
- Maternal Peripartum Mental Health: Integrating Psychiatric Care into Obstetric Medicine (Deadline: 25 October 2024)
- Potential Cures of Alzheimer's Dementia (Deadline: 31 October 2024)
- Mood Disorders: Diagnosis, Management and Future Opportunities (Deadline: 31 October 2024)
- Perinatal Mental Health Management (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Substance and Behavioral Addictions: Prevention and Diagnosis (Deadline: 20 December 2024)
- New Insights into Suicide and Mental Health Conditions (Deadline: 20 December 2024)
- 2nd Edition: Diagnosis, Treatment and Rehabilitation in Health Services for Patients with Intellectual Disability and Mental Health Problems (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Targeted Diagnosis and Treatment of Dementia: Current Concepts and New Horizons (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Stress, Rhythms Dysregulation and Bipolar Spectrum (Deadline: 20 January 2025)
Topical Collection
Following topical collection within this section is currently open for submissions: