Personalized medicine of psychiatric disorders requires a comprehensive understanding of the risk factors, endophenotype characteristics, and developmental trajectories of specific subtypes of these disorders. From a longitudinal, lifelong standpoint, monitoring how different mental health processes evolve over time may constitute a frame of opportunity to identify individuals at higher risk of mental disorders, improve diagnostic protocols, and optimize decision-making on treatment provision and follow-up. The identification of person-specific pathways of psychopathology processes is particularly important during childhood and adolescence life periods with a decisive influence later in life, but also extremely challenging due to the rapid and significant transformations (at multiple levels: physiological, cognitive, social, familiar) that an individual deal with during this sensitive and crucial period in human life.
This Research Topic is aimed at gathering outstanding papers focused on disentangling paths of psychopathology development by means of person-centered approaches. The focus of interest is psychopathological processes (or protective/risk factor course) covering adolescence and/or emerging adulthood (up to 30 years old), regardless of other life periods. Moreover, the identification of person-specific profiles or trajectories should be followed, in order to contribute to personalized medicine and tailored assessment and treatment provision. Finally, the article collection intends to contribute to filling gaps in developmental research knowledge from a lifelong perspective, with a clear interest in depicting frames of opportunity to help adolescents and youth adaptively deal with maturational challenges.
Articles from varying disciplines of Mental Health (Psychology, Psychiatry, Neuroscience, Nursery) and Social Sciences (Sociology, Social Work, etc.) are welcome in this article collection. An eligible article for the collection should be able to study longitudinal processes (pathways) influencing mental health problem development, or the course of a mental health problem, covering adolescence and/or emerging adulthood. This could contribute to basic and clinical science advancement and to open new lines of action (e.g., drug development, treatment delivery) to tackle mental disease.
Original articles and reviews providing evidence on the relationship between person-specific processes and mental disease are very welcome, as well as theoretical papers. More concretely, studies should be focused on (but not limited to) the following areas:
• Empirical studies (longitudinal single-group studies, case-control studies) on the relationship between person-specific processes and mental disease.
• Reviews and meta-analyses.
• Development of novel approaches or methods to identify person-specific processes at a community or a clinical level.
• Epidemiological studies on psychiatric processes.
• Studies on animal mental health models focused.
• Clinical trials using either therapeutical agents or to prevent mental health condition development.
• Epidemiological studies linking person-specific paths of mental disease development and biomarkers.
• Theoretical papers presenting new postulates of person-specific paths of mental disease development.
Personalized medicine of psychiatric disorders requires a comprehensive understanding of the risk factors, endophenotype characteristics, and developmental trajectories of specific subtypes of these disorders. From a longitudinal, lifelong standpoint, monitoring how different mental health processes evolve over time may constitute a frame of opportunity to identify individuals at higher risk of mental disorders, improve diagnostic protocols, and optimize decision-making on treatment provision and follow-up. The identification of person-specific pathways of psychopathology processes is particularly important during childhood and adolescence life periods with a decisive influence later in life, but also extremely challenging due to the rapid and significant transformations (at multiple levels: physiological, cognitive, social, familiar) that an individual deal with during this sensitive and crucial period in human life.
This Research Topic is aimed at gathering outstanding papers focused on disentangling paths of psychopathology development by means of person-centered approaches. The focus of interest is psychopathological processes (or protective/risk factor course) covering adolescence and/or emerging adulthood (up to 30 years old), regardless of other life periods. Moreover, the identification of person-specific profiles or trajectories should be followed, in order to contribute to personalized medicine and tailored assessment and treatment provision. Finally, the article collection intends to contribute to filling gaps in developmental research knowledge from a lifelong perspective, with a clear interest in depicting frames of opportunity to help adolescents and youth adaptively deal with maturational challenges.
Articles from varying disciplines of Mental Health (Psychology, Psychiatry, Neuroscience, Nursery) and Social Sciences (Sociology, Social Work, etc.) are welcome in this article collection. An eligible article for the collection should be able to study longitudinal processes (pathways) influencing mental health problem development, or the course of a mental health problem, covering adolescence and/or emerging adulthood. This could contribute to basic and clinical science advancement and to open new lines of action (e.g., drug development, treatment delivery) to tackle mental disease.
Original articles and reviews providing evidence on the relationship between person-specific processes and mental disease are very welcome, as well as theoretical papers. More concretely, studies should be focused on (but not limited to) the following areas:
• Empirical studies (longitudinal single-group studies, case-control studies) on the relationship between person-specific processes and mental disease.
• Reviews and meta-analyses.
• Development of novel approaches or methods to identify person-specific processes at a community or a clinical level.
• Epidemiological studies on psychiatric processes.
• Studies on animal mental health models focused.
• Clinical trials using either therapeutical agents or to prevent mental health condition development.
• Epidemiological studies linking person-specific paths of mental disease development and biomarkers.
• Theoretical papers presenting new postulates of person-specific paths of mental disease development.
