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Advances and Innovations in Child and Adolescent Mental Health
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Advances and Innovations in Child and Adolescent Mental Health

A special issue of Psychiatry International (ISSN 2673-5318). This special issue belongs to the section "Mental Health".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2027 | Viewed by 973

Editors

Dr. Shaun Liverpool

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Faculty of Health, Social Care and Medicine, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, UK
Interests: technology; youth mental health
Dr. Mia Eisenstadt

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Evidence Based Practice Unit (EBPU), Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families and University College London (UCL), London, UK
Interests: resilience; risk factors; digital interventions

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce a forthcoming Special Issue entitled “Advances and Innovations in Child and Adolescent Mental Health.” This collection will bring together leading scholars, clinicians and researchers to showcase cutting-edge developments shaping the future of mental health care for children and young people.

Child and adolescent mental health services are currently navigating unprecedented challenges, including rising prevalence of mental health difficulties, widening health inequalities, workforce pressures and the rapid expansion of digital and technology-enabled interventions. At the same time, significant innovations are emerging across prevention, early intervention, precision approaches, participatory research and policy translation. There is a growing need to integrate psychological science, neuroscience, implementation research and co-production methodologies to ensure that interventions are accessible, equitable, safe and responsive to real-world contexts.

This Special Issue will focus on novel theoretical frameworks, innovative intervention models (including digital and arts-based approaches), advancements in early identification and prevention and emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, digital phenotyping and data-driven personalisation. We also welcome contributions addressing implementation science, health equity, global perspectives and system-level transformation in child and adolescent mental health.

Our aim is to curate a collection of high-quality original research articles, systematic reviews and thought-leading perspectives that exemplify methodological rigour, innovation and translational relevance. We anticipate that this Special Issue will provide an influential platform for advancing scholarship and practice in this critical field.

We warmly invite submissions from established and emerging scholars whose works contribute to shaping the next generation of child and adolescent mental health research and care.

We look forward to your contributions.

Dr. Shaun Liverpool
Dr. Mia Eisenstadt
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • mental health
  • technology
  • digital interventions
  • children
  • adolescents
  • young people

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Development and Preliminary Evaluation of a Behavior-Analytic Family Intervention for Adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa and Their Parents: A Four-Case Series
by Felipe Alckmin Carvalho, Guilherme Welter Wendt, Iara Teixeira, Maria Cristina Triguero Veloz Teixeira and Márcia Helena da Silva Melo
Psychiatry Int. 2026, 7(4), 152; https://doi.org/10.3390/psychiatryint7040152 - 9 Jul 2026
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Anorexia nervosa (AN) in adolescence is associated with substantial morbidity and complex family processes. Family-based approaches are the best-established psychosocial treatments, but remission rates remain modest and broader family and emotional processes are often only partly addressed. This case series describes the development [...] Read more.
Anorexia nervosa (AN) in adolescence is associated with substantial morbidity and complex family processes. Family-based approaches are the best-established psychosocial treatments, but remission rates remain modest and broader family and emotional processes are often only partly addressed. This case series describes the development and preliminary evaluation of a behavior-analytic family intervention combining parent-led refeeding with structured work on parental socioemotional and educational skills. Eight families were screened, five entered treatment, and four completed a 20-session outpatient protocol delivered weekly over approximately six months, with assessments at baseline, post-treatment, and three-month follow-up. Outcomes included anthropometric indicators, menstrual status, eating-disorder psychopathology, adolescent and caregiver functioning, parenting style, perceived family support, and parent satisfaction. Among completer families, attendance was 100%. Mean BMI increased from 16.72 at baseline to 18.91 post-treatment and 19.03 at follow-up; mean EDE-Q total score decreased from 4.25 to 1.40 and 0.73, respectively. All four adolescents achieved physiological remission and reliable EDE-Q improvement by follow-up; three also met multidimensional remission criteria. The intervention was feasible, acceptable, and clinically promising, but larger studies with independent assessment and comparison conditions are needed. Full article
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Temporal Fluctuations of Suicide Mortality and Their Attributed Motives in Governmental Databases of Student Suicides in Japan from 2009 to 2025
by Ryusuke Matsumoto, Yuki Ito, Tomoka Oka, Eishi Motomura and Motohiro Okada
Psychiatry Int. 2026, 7(4), 143; https://doi.org/10.3390/psychiatryint7040143 - 1 Jul 2026
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National crude suicide mortality rates (CMRs) in Japan trended downward throughout the 2010s, yet the CMR for the youth population moved in the opposite direction, rising from the mid-2010s onwards. To clarify the risk groups and underlying mechanisms of increasing student suicides, the [...] Read more.
National crude suicide mortality rates (CMRs) in Japan trended downward throughout the 2010s, yet the CMR for the youth population moved in the opposite direction, rising from the mid-2010s onwards. To clarify the risk groups and underlying mechanisms of increasing student suicides, the temporal fluctuations of CMRs of students in middle school, high school, special vocational school, and university were analyzed by joinpoint regression analysis, and identification of high CMR groups were detected by a linear mixed-effect model using government suicide databases. CMRs of female students in all school categories increased from the mid-2010s. CMRs of male students in middle and high schools increased, whereas those in university and special vocational school moved from a decreasing to a stable level. Among the average of CMRs from 2022 to 2025, the highest CMR was observed in part-time high school students, which was approximately fivefold higher than the average of all students overall. The major leading suicide motives for all student subgroups were concerned with underachievement and career-path-associated problems within school-related problems. Family-related problems, such as conflict with parents and parental reprimands, were leading suicide motives for middle school students, but these impacts attenuated with age. Instead, the impacts of psychiatric disorders, including depression and other psychiatric disorders, enhanced with age. Student suicides attributed in the government suicide database to these leading suicide motives showed an upward inflexion, moving from a decreasing or stable pattern to a rising one, beginning in the mid-2010s. Taken together, these patterns indicate that mental health concerns among students have re-emerged as a substantial motive behind student suicide from the mid-2010s. Full article
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