Psychological Treatments, Affective and Cognitive Functioning: Implications on Public Health
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Mental Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2024) | Viewed by 282
Special Issue Editors
Interests: clinical psychology; psychotherapy; clinical neuroscience
Interests: neuroscience; psychotherapy; pscychopathology; artificial intelligence; embodied mind; neural nets
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Interests: psychopathology; personality disorders; neural correlates of consciousness; medical decision-making
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, we are pleased to announce the launch of a new Special Issue on the subject of “Psychological, affective and cognitive functioning: implications on public health”, guest-edited by Natascia De Lucia from the University of Naples, Italy, Raffaele Sperandeo from the University of Marche, Italy, and Nelson Mauro Maldonato from the University of Naples, Italy.
Clinical psychology encompasses a wide range of scientific interests, including the understanding of psychological functioning, its discomfort, and the prevention, identification and treatment of several psychopathological features. This field of science includes different theoretical approaches aiming to analyze the affective emotional, cognitive, behavioral, psychosocial and interpersonal factors, and their reciprocal relationships that may be at the origin to the disturbances or maintain the condition of discomfort in single individual or groups. Recently, interest has reemerged focusing on the possible relationships between psychology treatments, cognition functioning and their impact on public health. It has been highlighted that the phenomenon of brain plasticity in the context of psychological interventions suggests a close relationship between cognitive mechanisms and psychological processes. Moreover, this close specificity might be an advantage in the context of public health, raising the possibility of more dedicated strategies to improve public health.
This Special Issue focuses on the relationships between psychological, cognitive and affective functioning, in order to present an integrated approach able to improve public health.
Dr. Natascia De Lucia
Prof. Dr. Raffaele Sperandeo
Prof. Dr. Nelson Mauro Maldonato
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- psychotherapy
- cognition
- psychological discomfort
- emotion regulation
- psychosocial
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