About this Research Topic
Interest in mental health is currently particularly high and arises from an ever-growing need for interventions aimed at young and old.
The WHO (World Health Organization) estimates an onset of mental disorders in approximately 29% of the global population. Shockingly 55% of individuals in the most developed countries are currently not receiving any form of support or treatment. This percentage significantly increases to 85% in developing countries.
Mobile health apps addressing mental health, such as mHealth apps, have the potential to serve as crucial tools in addressing this gap/offset. They can act as a bridge facilitating interventions, especially in contexts that may be challenging to reach using traditional strategies.
With the widespread adoption of smartphones over the past decade, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, the field of mobile health and related applications (mHealth) has witnessed a growing connection with the use of mobile applications for mental health.
It's not by chance that the WHO Action Plan 2013-2020 recommended the advocacy of self-care using electronic devices and mHealth applications. These aspects collectively emphasize the need for thorough research in this domain to pinpoint the most promising areas of intervention and the most effective tools.
Emotion regulation stands out as one of the most promising areas of intervention given its prevalence in many mental health disorders when dysregulated.
Considering its transdiagnostic relevance across both mental health disorders (such as anxiety, depression, and borderline personality disorders), and developmental risk behaviors (e.g. deviance, identity distress, antisociality, internet addiction), emotion regulation represents a compelling focus for mHealth apps.
Considering the significance of this construct for individual psychological well-being, and the complexity of the interventional approaches involved, there is an urgent need to fill in research and application gaps with a systematic approach, helping to bridge these areas for effective implementation.
This Research Topic aims to systematize existing scientific knowledge, identify connections between emotional regulation and psychological interventions, further explore the latest technological developments and applications for self-care tools, and outline guidelines and directions for implementing reliable and effective tools.
To this aim, we welcome the submission of Original Research, Reviews, Methods, and Perspective articles on the following:
• Emotion regulation in youth and adult development
• Emotion regulation and mental health
• Neural correlates of emotion regulation
• Emotional regulation and personal identity
• Emotion dysregulation
• Emotional dysregulation and externalizing symptoms
• Emotional regulation strategies in daily life
• mHealth Apps
The WHO (World Health Organization) estimates an onset of mental disorders in approximately 29% of the global population. Shockingly 55% of individuals in the most developed countries are currently not receiving any form of support or treatment. This percentage significantly increases to 85% in developing countries.
Mobile health apps addressing mental health, such as mHealth apps, have the potential to serve as crucial tools in addressing this gap/offset. They can act as a bridge facilitating interventions, especially in contexts that may be challenging to reach using traditional strategies.
With the widespread adoption of smartphones over the past decade, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, the field of mobile health and related applications (mHealth) has witnessed a growing connection with the use of mobile applications for mental health.
It's not by chance that the WHO Action Plan 2013-2020 recommended the advocacy of self-care using electronic devices and mHealth applications. These aspects collectively emphasize the need for thorough research in this domain to pinpoint the most promising areas of intervention and the most effective tools.
Emotion regulation stands out as one of the most promising areas of intervention given its prevalence in many mental health disorders when dysregulated.
Considering its transdiagnostic relevance across both mental health disorders (such as anxiety, depression, and borderline personality disorders), and developmental risk behaviors (e.g. deviance, identity distress, antisociality, internet addiction), emotion regulation represents a compelling focus for mHealth apps.
Considering the significance of this construct for individual psychological well-being, and the complexity of the interventional approaches involved, there is an urgent need to fill in research and application gaps with a systematic approach, helping to bridge these areas for effective implementation.
This Research Topic aims to systematize existing scientific knowledge, identify connections between emotional regulation and psychological interventions, further explore the latest technological developments and applications for self-care tools, and outline guidelines and directions for implementing reliable and effective tools.
To this aim, we welcome the submission of Original Research, Reviews, Methods, and Perspective articles on the following:
• Emotion regulation in youth and adult development
• Emotion regulation and mental health
• Neural correlates of emotion regulation
• Emotional regulation and personal identity
• Emotion dysregulation
• Emotional dysregulation and externalizing symptoms
• Emotional regulation strategies in daily life
• mHealth Apps
Keywords: emotion regulation, mHealth, emotion dysregulation, anxiety, depression, borderline personality disorders, identity stress, antisociality, neural correlates, mental health, psychological interventions
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