Behavioral and Mental Health Problems in Children: 2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

The stimulus, stress, and behavioral and mental response (SSB) model proposes that various stimuli induce stress and behavioral responses, which in turn may lead to health problems. With rapid social development and change, social competition is intensifying, causing significant mental stress to young people, which prevents them from raising their own children effectively. This situation poses a great challenge to child raising. Children are a vulnerable population in crisis. Approaches to address this problem need to be based on high-quality scientific research to understand the root causes and determine effective approaches to reduce behavioral and mental health problems.

The research included in this Special Issue has three main objectives. The primary research goal is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the social and behavioral mechanisms leading to BMPC. A second goal is to develop behavioral and mental health promotion strategies and policies among children, which refer to specialized policy research. A third goal is to design and examine the effect of an intervention program on BMPC. It should be stressed that we give very low priority to studies regarding the general demographic and individual characteristics of BMPC. We believe that the information obtained from this study could be used to inform health policy, plan prevention strategies, and design and implement appropriate, targeted interventions to help reduce behavioral and mental health problems in children.

This Special Issue is seeking cutting-edge research and studies exploring the population mechanism and family- and school-level intervention.

We welcome submissions on the following subtopics, including, but not limited to:

1. Exploring the social and behavioral mechanisms leading to BMPC. It should be emphasized that this process should be implemented under the guidance of existing theories rather than based on statistical mediation correlations among related factors, which is currently very prevalent in psychology.
2. Examining contextual influences on BMPC under the SSB model, such as contextual stress, parenting, and BMPC.
3. Uncertainty stress studies, including the status, population mechanism, and coping strategies of participants, as well as their influence on health.
4. Policy studies that can be used to develop behavioral and mental health promotion strategies and policies.
5. Identifying and reducing BMPC inequities.
6. Designing and examining the effect of intervention programs on BMPC.

Prof. Dr. Tingzhong Yang
Guest Editor

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