Youth Mental Health
A special issue of Medicina (ISSN 1648-9144). This special issue belongs to the section "Psychiatry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2020) | Viewed by 30604
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Interests: clinical psychiatry; epidemiology; social psychiatry; early intervention in mental health; promotion of mental health
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Interests: suicide and suicide prevention; public health; well-being; youth mental health
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Interests: stigma; prevention of mental disorders; school-age approaches to mental health problems; pathways to care
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Mental health problems represent the largest burden of disease in young people. In fact, the majority of severe mental disorders has an onset during adolescence or young adulthood. When these disorders are not promptly and adequately treated, the consequences are serious in terms of poor personal and social functioning, and unsatisfactory quality of life. Several risk factors have been identified for the onset of mental disorders in youth. In particular, drug and alcohol use, neglect, physical or sexual abuse, violence, marginalization, bullying, and traumas are the most consistent ones. Therefore, there is an urgent need to develop preventive strategies in order to improve mental health and wellbeing among young people, as well as to promote early interventions aiming to detect and properly treat mental disorders already at their onset.
In recent decades, there has been a paradigm shift in the provision of mental health care, with the affirmation of the model of early intervention in psychosis. Following recent evidence that the onset of the various mental disorders is not yet differentiated, this paradigm has further shifted to youth mental health care, which is a more integrated treatment approach for young people aged 12–25 years suffering from any mental health disturbance.
This reform is still in its infancy, and several obstacles have been identified in the access to mental health services by young people. These obstacles include stigma and discrimination, with a consequent delay in help-seeking, lack of knowledge about mental health disorders, concerns about confidentiality, and fragmentation of mental health services.
We encourage you and your coworkers to submit articles on this topic. Reviews or original articles dealing with the provision of innovative interventions or programmes for young people, or research reports on the obstacles facing youth mental health care or on the impact of risk factors (such as use of cannabis, novel psychoactive substances, cyberbullying, etc.) on the development of mental disorders in young people, are particularly welcome.
Dr. Andrea Fiorillo
Prof. Dr. Maurizio Pompili
Dr. Gaia Sampogna
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Youth mental health
- Public mental health
- Ultra-high-risk patients
- Early onset
- Early intervention for mental disorders
- Cannabis
- Novel psychoactive substances
- Pathways to care
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