Growth Through Adversity: Risks and Resilience in Child and Adolescent Mental Health
A special issue of Children (ISSN 2227-9067). This special issue belongs to the section "Pediatric Mental Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 44
Special Issue Editors
Interests: childhood adversity; child maltreatment; mental health; risk and protective factors; child and adolescent development
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It has been well established that childhood adversity, such as exposure to maltreatment, household dysfunction, and community violence, detrimentally affects child and adolescent mental health. The focus of research has more recently shifted to the risk and protective factors and processes that influence mental health in the context of childhood adversity. Gaining a better understanding of biological, social, psychological, and environmental factors that increase vulnerability to mental health problems and that promote resilience is critical to informing more targeted prevention and intervention efforts for children and adolescents. Therefore, the aim of this Special Issue is to highlight innovative research that advances our knowledge regarding the influence of risk and resilience factors on the effects of childhood adversity on mental health during the developmental periods of childhood and adolescence. We are particularly interested in publishing a collection of research papers that consider biological, social, psychological, and environmental risk and resilience factors.
We welcome empirical research, original scoping or systematic reviews, and original meta-analyses related to the aforementioned aim of this Special Issue and encourage submissions from various disciplines and interdisciplinary teams (e.g., psychology, social work, public health, nursing, psychiatry).
Dr. Camie A. Tomlinson
Prof. Dr. Becky Antle
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- childhood adversity
- children
- adolescents
- mental health
- risk
- resilience
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