Psychological Interventions and Lifestyle Interventions for Mental Health and Suicide Risk: Implications for Public Health
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2026 | Viewed by 16
Special Issue Editors
Interests: existential approach; lifestyle interventions; bipolar disorder; lithium; suicide prevention
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Suicide is a critical global health issue with serious consequences. Strategies for improving mental health and mitigating suicide risk are crucial for public health. Such strategies include psychological interventions and lifestyle interventions. For example, the former may include mindfulness psychotherapy, cognitive behavior therapy, the existential approach, interpersonal and social rhythm therapy, virtual reality-assisted therapy, digital therapy and app-based psychological intervention, while the latter may involve the intake of blue fish and/or eicosapentaenoic acid, restriction of bedtime mobile phone use, physical exercise, reading, exposure to sunlight and drinking lithium-rich water. Of course, other strategies can be useful for these purposes.
This Special Issue seeks evidence-based research papers on psychological interventions and lifestyle interventions for mental health and suicide risk. In addition, we encourage the submission of exploratory studies investigating which factors are protective or risky for mental health and suicide risk, which may contribute to the development of useful interventions.
Specifically, the following topics are preferable.
- Population-level lifestyle and environmental factors (e.g., sleep, diet, exercise, sunlight, social support, and social determinants) in mental-health and/or suicide risk.
- Psychosocial and behavioral interventions (e.g., coping style, resilience, mindfulness, and stress regulation) that can be applied at the population or community level for mental-health and/or suicide risk.
- Insightful clinical case reports or series regarding mental health and/or suicide risk with long observation periods, possibly in an A-B-A-B design.
We welcome epidemiological studies, clinical case reports or series with long observation periods, open studies, randomized controlled studies and reviews and meta-analyses.
Prof. Dr. Takeshi Terao
Dr. Hirofumi Hirakawa
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- mental health
- suicide risk
- psychological interventions
- lifestyle interventions
- public health
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