Psychoeducation and Early Intervention
A special issue of Behavioral Sciences (ISSN 2076-328X). This special issue belongs to the section "Social Psychology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2024 | Viewed by 1460
Special Issue Editors
Interests: cognitive psychology; cognitive behavioral therapy; anxiety disorders; digital mental health
Interests: psychiatry; mental disorders; family psychoeducation; psychosocial rehabilitation; digital mental health
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the last few decades, psychoeducation emerged as an evidence-based intervention program that is useful in the development of an individual’s and their family’s knowledge and understanding of a mental disorder, including its diagnosis and treatment, in order to improve their managing and coping abilities. Psychoeducational programs provide both disease-specific information (e.g., early recognition and management of relapse symptoms) and general information (e.g., promotion of a healthy lifestyle, problem-solving, communication skills training). According to the target population, psychoeducation can be individual, family-, group-, or community-based, and it has been found to be fruitful in both clinical and community settings. More recently, some authors have highlighted the importance of developing psychoeducational interventions, according to a transdiagnostic approach, in the health–illness continuum and throughout the life cycle in different contexts (e.g., school or university), addressed to children and adolescents, young people, their families, and caregivers, in order to prevent mental disorder and problematic behaviors (e.g., bullying, substance use, self-harm). In addition to the high accessibility and availability of digital tools, their potential for successfully promoting young people’s mental health has recently been demonstrated.
Dr. Laura Giusti
Prof. Dr. Rita Roncone
Dr. Antonio Ventriglio
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- early intervention
- psychoeducation
- mental disorders
- digital mental health
- transdiagnostic approach
