Nursing Care for Adolescents with Mental Health Disorders
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Care Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2027 | Viewed by 152
Special Issue Editors
Interests: caring science; caring presence; adolescent mental health; artificial intelligence
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Adolescence represents a critical developmental period marked by profound biological, psychological, and social transitions. Globally, mental health disorders among adolescents including anxiety disorders, depressive disorders, substance use disorders, trauma-related conditions, and emerging personality disturbances continue to rise in prevalence and complexity. These conditions significantly affect educational attainment, relational development, long-term health trajectories, and overall quality of life.
Nurses occupy a pivotal role in early identification, prevention, therapeutic engagement, and ongoing management of adolescent mental health disorders across clinical, community, school, and digital health settings. However, contemporary challenges including workforce shortages, sociopolitical stressors, digital media exposure, health inequities, and the integration of artificial intelligence into care require innovative, theoretically grounded, and relationally centered approaches to nursing practice.
This Special Issue seeks to advance scholarship that strengthens nursing care for adolescents experiencing mental health disorders through the lens of Caring Science, relational presence, trauma-informed practice, culturally responsive care, and emerging technologies. We welcome empirical research (qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods), systematic and scoping reviews, theoretical papers, intervention studies, policy analyses, and implementation research that contribute to evidence-informed and person-centered nursing practice.
We encourage submission of papers that examine the intersection of technology, including but not limited to, the following areas:
- Caring Science
- Artificial Intelligence in adolescent mental health
- Caring presence in adolescent mental healthcare
- School-based and community mental health nursing
- Digital mental health and AI-assisted interventions
- Trauma-informed and culturally responsive care
- Mental health literacy and prevention strategies
- Culturally and developmentally responsive interventions
- Family-centered and relational approaches
- Ethical dimensions of emerging technologies in adolescent care
- Workforce preparation and nursing education for adolescent mental health
- Innovative mental health care for adolescents
Through this Special Issue, we aim to generate rigorous, practice-relevant scholarship that advances global dialogue and evidence, strengthening nurses’ capacity to deliver compassionate, just, and innovative mental health care for adolescents worldwide.
We look forward to your contributions.
Dr. Precious Chibuike Chukwuere
Prof. Dr. Emmerentia Du Plessis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- caring science
- adolescent mental health
- nursing presence
- digital health and AI in nursing
- psychiatric mental health nursing
- trauma-informed care
- holistic healing
- global health disparities
- resilience and coping
- health promotion
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