Psychological Intervention in the Mental Health and Ill-Health of Higher Education Students
A Special Issue of Behavioral Sciences (ISSN 2076-328X) belonging to the section "Child and Adolescent Psychiatry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2024) | Viewed by 1167
Editors
Interests: youth and student mental health; hopefulness; social disability; time use; psychological intervention
Interests: implementation science; student mental health; brief psychological interventions; digital approaches to mental health support
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Dear Colleagues,
The number of higher education students is growing, with more than half of all young people attending university in some parts of the world. Unfortunately, so too are the rates of students experiencing mental health problems, and the number of students discontinuing university for mental health-related reasons. Students represent a vulnerable group with respect to mental ill-health and suicidality, and there is evidence that this was compounded further by the COVID-19 pandemic, its associated social restrictions and ongoing changes to the higher education landscape. The result of the increased awareness of the vulnerability of the higher education student population, coupled with the COVID-19 pandemic, has been to put pressure on universities to respond, often leading to rushed implementation of support provisions that are well intentioned but not necessarily evidence-based.
Provision of student support services remains variable across institutions. Whilst there are many pockets of excellent practice, we believe that there is a need for a more focused effort in evidence-based approaches to psychological intervention in higher education student mental health and ill-health, using appropriate methodologies to study theory-driven psychological interventions. We welcome submissions that focus on psychological interventions for mental health or mental health problems, i.e. universal, targeted, and/or indicated interventions. We are interested in submissions focused on approaches for all students, or a subpopulation thereof, including postgraduate research students or specific sociodemographic groups. We welcome submissions that focus on intervention development, optimisation, feasibility (including pilot) testing, definitive evaluation, and/or implementation, using any quantitative and/or qualitative or mixed methods. Interventions co/developed in the higher education context, and translational research of interventions developed elsewhere, are of interest.
Dr. Clio Berry
Dr. Cassie Marie Hazell
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- higher education
- student mental health
- youth mental health
- psychological intervention
- mental health problems
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