The Impact of Parental Mental Health on Children
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: closed (10 March 2024) | Viewed by 1739
Special Issue Editors
Interests: transdiagnostic mechanisms; temperament; self-regulation; parenting; behavioral health; parenting stress; children's developing emotion
Interests: strengthening family-focused mental health services; addressing disparities; mental health services; intervention development and evaluation; parent peer support
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Parental mental health concerns have a significant impact on children across multiple developmental periods (e.g., infancy, early childhood, school-age, and adolescence). Nearly one in five adults live with a mental health condition that varies in severity. Further, comorbid conditions are strikingly common, as up to half of adults with diagnosed mental health concerns experience such conditions. Importantly, parental mental health concerns and well-being influence children across a broad array of outcomes, such as youth mental health concerns, academic outcomes, and physical health. As such, we are calling for papers presenting findings from primary and secondary (e.g., systematic or meta-analytic reviews) research that examine the influence of parental mental health concerns on whole-child outcomes.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Bidirectional influences between parental mental health concerns and child outcomes.
- Links between specific adult mental health concerns (e.g., anxiety, depression, bipolar, inattention, impulse control difficulties, substance use, trauma, and serious mental illness) and child outcomes from youth or adult clinical samples.
- Links between mechanisms underlying comorbid adult mental health concerns (e.g., emotion dysregulation and executive functioning difficulties) and child outcomes in youth or adult clinical samples.
- The utility of adult mental health and well-being measures when implemented across a variety of settings dedicated to children (e.g., schools, youth mental health clinics, primary care clinics, and specialty medical clinics)
- The effects of various mental health interventions (e.g., psychosocial and pharmacological) delivered to adults on child outcomes.
Dr. Jacob B. W. Holzman
Prof. Dr. Bruno J. Anthony
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- parental mental health concerns
- comorbid adult mental health
- youth mental health
- youth academic functioning
- youth physical health
- intergenerational transmission
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