Individualized Bio- Psycho- Social Interventions for Youth with Mental Disorders

Dear Colleagues,

There is a need for coordinated and multidisciplinary efforts in psychiatry to improve knowledge on individualized psychological treatment for young people. Psychotherapy works for the most frequent mental disorders in youth such as anxiety and depression. Different psychotherapy modalities work on average equally well. However, little is known about how different treatment modalities work (the mechanisms of change/mediators) and for whom (specific markers/moderators). Thus, empirically informed individualized treatment cannot be delivered yet.

50% of lifetime mental health disorders start by the age of 14, and the number increases to 75% by the age of 24. Mental disorders in youth are associated with direct and indirect costs including personal distress, costs to family and friends, high healthcare costs, barriers to employment and job performance, poverty and economic deprivation and social exclusion.

This special issue invites papers that identifies putative specific markers and mechanisms of change in different psychotherapy modalities, psychotherapy process and treatment measures, and study designs, as well as protocol papers, and papers rewiewing the state of the art in the field. Also papers focusing on cost-effectiveness of psychological and social interventions as well as papers integrating a neuroscientific approach and a bio-psychosomatic view are invited.

Prof. Dr. Randi Ulberg
Prof. Dr. Henriette Löffler-Stastka
Prof. Dr. Jan Ivar Røssberg
Dr. Andrea Saliba
Guest Editors

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