Emerging Clinical Insights into Adolescent Behavioral Development and Mental Health
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Mental Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 20
Special Issue Editors
Interests: temperamental and personality profiles; personality and emotions; internalizing/externalizing symptoms; adolescents' health; adolescents' self-efficacy; online behaviors; cyberbullying and other online risks
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Dear Colleagues,
As we well know, adolescence is one of the most critical periods during the lifespan, characterized by a number of challenges. During this period, youths are exposed to many developmental demands and changes in many domains of functioning, such as biological, cognitive, emotional, and relational.
How adolescents face these demands sets the basis for different successful or unsuccessful developmental trajectories, and understanding the mechanisms, processes, and antecedents of those pathways is crucial for promoting youths’ and adults’ mental health, as well as for preventing psychopathology. Nowadays, there are many more challenges in this field for researchers and clinicians due to the substantial transformation of youths’ daily contexts, which implies further demands for their development.
Thus, the general aim of this Special Issue is to provide further examinations of the complex world in which adolescents live nowadays, with a particular lens on the mechanisms that can predict or influence their behavioral development and mental adjustment, especially in clinical contexts.
Dr. Ainzara Favini
Dr. Anne-Marie Iselin
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- adolescence
- behavioral development
- clinical maladjustment
- adolescents’ mental health
- innovative clinical approach
- adolescents’ emotional problems
- clinical settings
- innovative developmental research
- adolescents’ symptoms
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