Interventions to Foster Mental Health and Human Well-Being in Educational Settings

Dear Colleagues,

In the words of the World Health Organization, citizens with severe mental health conditions die on average two decades earlier than other people. Moreover, it is stated that suicide is the fourth leading cause of death among 15–29-year-olds. Mental health has been included among the 17 Sustainable Development Goals proposed by the United Nations. Subsequently, fostering mental health has become a major challenge for all professionals involved in educational settings.

In this way, social competence has been proposed as a demanding strategy to assist patients in the prevention of mental health conditions. Today, the development of these competences has become one of the most important challenges in human education, mainly when thinking about how to build a healthy humanity in the future and how to foster the next generation of citizens to have a new mindset.

This Special Issue calls for researchers to work together to summarize proposals aimed to facilitate professionals in educational settings to foster social and emotional competences to foster children’s well-being. However, it is crucial to highlight that this special collection does not aim to substitute the reception of actual medical advice and therapy but wants to collect strategies to help teachers, from early childhood to adolescence, or even university teachers, improve their own and their students’ intra- and inter-personal competences.

I look forward to receiving your contributions in order to deal with the matter together.

Prof. Dr. Markel Rico-González
Guest Editor

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• mental health
• emotion
• psychology
• education
• children
• teachers
• healthcare
• intra-personal competence
• inter-personal competence
• personal growth
• purpose in life
• life satisfaction
• quality of life
• happiness
• well-being
• stress
• anxiety
• depression
• self-esteem
• self-worth
• resilience
• hedonic
• eudaimonic
• self-acceptance
• positive emotions
• autonomy
• motivation
• self-determination theory
• bullying
• burnout
• teacher in training