Mental Health
A section of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383).
Section Information
Dear Colleagues,
Clinical psychology is one of the main theoretical–applicative branches of psychology. It includes the scientific study and the applications of psychology with regard to understanding, prevention, and intervention in individual, family, and group psychological and relational problems, including the management of many forms of psychopathology.
Central aspects are psychodiagnostics and psychotherapeutic intervention, which represents a specialized development aimed above all at taking charge of situations where there is a structured psychopathology.
Among the thematic nuclei of operational interest and clinical research, some can be exemplified as the prevention (primary and secondary) of personal discomfort; early identification and diagnosis of psychopathological risks; the cognitive, affective-emotional, psychosocial, behavioral, personality, social, and cultural factors that are at the origin of the disturbances or maintain the condition of discomfort; emotions and their regulation in relation to health and disease, with specific regard to affective dysregulations; the methods of clinical management of different types of individual, couple, family, and group disorders; the various forms of individual, couple, family, and group psychological counseling; the improvement of the effectiveness of psychodiagnostic techniques; the methods of managing emotional, relational or decision-making situations that arise in various life stages and contexts; the promotion of individual psychosocial wellbeing and in social contexts; the design of effective forms of psychological and psychosocial rehabilitation; and the assessment of the effectiveness of aid interventions and health prevention and promotion programs in different social contexts.
Modern clinical psychology is based on the evidence of scientific research and clinical experience and takes an interdisciplinary approach, also making use of the cognitive contributions of other psychological disciplines (in particular, cognitive psychology, psychology and dynamics, psychology of personality and differential psychology, psychology, neuropsychology clinical, social and group psychology, psychometrics) and nonpsychological, such as epidemiology, physiology, evaluative research, health sociology, etc.
Our journal will gather experiences from clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, and pediatricians from different areas and countries to acquire new perspectives in the vision and therapy of disorders that clinical psychology and developmental psychopathology deal with.
We sincerely welcome your submission to Journal of Clinical Medicine. Our readers are waiting for your contribution to Clinical Psychology.
Subject Areas
clinical psychology; psychodiagnostics and psychotherapeutic intervention; food disorders; attachment; anxiety; self-esteem; depression; personality; sleep; emotions; mental disorders
Editorial Board
Topical Advisory Panel
Special Issues
Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Patient-Oriented Treatments for Bipolar Disorder (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Perinatal Mental Health Management (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Substance and Behavioral Addictions: Prevention and Diagnosis (Deadline: 20 December 2024)
- New Insights into Suicide and Mental Health Conditions (Deadline: 20 December 2024)
- Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prognosis of Neuropsychiatric Disorders (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- The Impact of the COVID-19 Emergency on the Quality of Life of the General Population, Part II (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Targeted Diagnosis and Treatment of Dementia: Current Concepts and New Horizons (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- 2nd Edition: Diagnosis, Treatment and Rehabilitation in Health Services for Patients with Intellectual Disability and Mental Health Problems (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Maternal Peripartum Mental Health: Integrating Psychiatric Care into Obstetric Medicine (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Stress, Rhythms Dysregulation and Bipolar Spectrum (Deadline: 20 January 2025)
- Addictive Disorders and Clinical Psychiatry—Part II (Deadline: 31 January 2025)
- (Recent Advances) Treating Psychiatry Disorders in Children and Adolescents: From Theory to Practice: 2nd Edition (Deadline: 20 February 2025)
- Effect of Long-Term Insomnia on Mental Health (Deadline: 20 March 2025)
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: Clinical Advances and Future Perspectives (Deadline: 25 March 2025)
- Long-Term Clinical Strategies for Psychiatric Rehabilitation (Deadline: 30 March 2025)
- Advances in Stigma and Discrimination in Pediatric Mental Health (Deadline: 31 March 2025)
- Eating Disorders: Current Epidemiology and Advances in the Diagnosis and Treatment (Deadline: 10 April 2025)
- Sleep and Circadian Rhythms in Patients with Physical and Mental Disorders (Deadline: 10 April 2025)
- Treatment Personalization in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy (Deadline: 20 April 2025)
- Management in Autism Spectrum Disorder: From Biomarkers to Precision Medicine (Deadline: 25 April 2025)
- The Maladies of New Motherhood: Negative Mood Symptoms, Postpartum Functioning, Current Interventions, and Protective Factors: 2nd Edition (Deadline: 30 April 2025)
- New Update on Personal Treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorder and Related Disorders (Deadline: 30 April 2025)
- Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Treatment and Management of Peripartum Depression, 2nd Edition (Deadline: 30 April 2025)
- Clinical Research Progress on the Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome (Deadline: 30 April 2025)
- Neuro-Psychiatric Disorders: Updates on Diagnosis and Treatment (Deadline: 30 April 2025)
- Potential Cures of Alzheimer's Dementia (Deadline: 10 May 2025)
- Clinical Features and Management of Psychosis (Deadline: 23 May 2025)
- Targeted Diagnosis and Treatment of Maladaptive Developmental Trajectories and Psychopathological Manifestations in Children and Adolescents (Deadline: 31 May 2025)
- The Association between Sleep Disorders and Metabolic and Mental Health (Deadline: 31 May 2025)
- New Technologies and Translational Approach for an Early Diagnosis of Bipolar Spectrum and Hyperactive and Novelty Seeking Profiles (Deadline: 25 June 2025)
- Autism Spectrum Disorder: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Management (Deadline: 25 June 2025)
- Advancing Psycho-Oncology: Multidimensional Approaches and Challenges to Cancer Care (Deadline: 30 July 2025)
Topical Collection
Following topical collection within this section is currently open for submissions: