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Depression, Anxiety and Stress in Children and Adolescents: 2nd Edition
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Special Issue "Depression, Anxiety and Stress in Children and Adolescents: 2nd Edition"

A special issue of Children (ISSN 2227-9067). This special issue belongs to the section "Child and Adolescent Psychiatry".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 December 2023 | Viewed by 776

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Oana A. David

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Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, 400015 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Interests: cognitive behavioral therapy; digital mental health promotion; clinical psychology; psychopathology; parenting; cognitive science; psychometrics; psychotherapy
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

There is currently global concern regarding the mental and emotional health of youths. Emotional disorders that have an early onset come with high lifetime persistence as well as immense personal and societal consequences.

The aim of this Special Issue is to stimulate urgently needed research on the mechanisms and innovative interventions for addressing "Depression, Anxiety and Stress in Children and Adolescents". We welcome original research studies (e.g., experimental, randomized controlled trials, mixed methods) and meta-analyses on the topic. It is encouraged that the focus of the research be to either validate innovative assessment systems for youth stress, anxiety and depression; investigate understudied mechanisms and risk factors connected to current world changes and stressors for such conditions; or to evaluate accessible (e.g., digital) interventions aiming to prevent or reduce depression, anxiety and stress in children and adolescents.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Oana A. David
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Children is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • depression
  • anxiety
  • stress
  • children and adolescents
  • digital interventions
  • emotion regulation

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The REThink Online Therapeutic Game: A Usability Study
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Ioana Alexandra Iuga
,
Cristina Teodora Tomoiaga
and
Oana Alexandra David
Children 2023, 10(8), 1276; https://doi.org/10.3390/children10081276 - 25 Jul 2023
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Background: Children and adolescents’ help-seeking behaviors are often limited by fear, uncertainty, and stigma, as well as challenges with finding the right intervention, help, and a lack of familiarity with the process. A promising direction for the development of therapeutic interventions targeted at [...] Read more.
Background: Children and adolescents’ help-seeking behaviors are often limited by fear, uncertainty, and stigma, as well as challenges with finding the right intervention, help, and a lack of familiarity with the process. A promising direction for the development of therapeutic interventions targeted at children is embedding them into gamified interventions, known as therapeutic or serious games. The aim of this paper is to describe the protocol of the beta REThink therapeutic game and to evaluate the usability of the game in a sample of children and adolescents. Methods: The study was delivered in schools, where 137 children and adolescents aged between 9 and 16 years old played the levels of the REThink game, followed by filling in the usability questionnaire. Findings: The results show above average evaluations for all levels of the game, for every dimension evaluated, namely presence/immersion, enjoyment, learning effectiveness, narratives, goal clarity, adequacy of learning material, and motivation. This study contributes to the literature on the usability of cognitive behavioral therapy-based therapeutic games for improvements in the emotion regulation abilities of children and adolescents, which can guide researchers interested in testing the REThink game in different protocols, as well to encourage its use by mental health specialists and parents. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Depression, Anxiety and Stress in Children and Adolescents: 2nd Edition)
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