15 Years of Frontiers in Psychiatry – Wellbeing and Society

As Frontiers in Psychiatry celebrates the 15th anniversary of our inaugural publication, we are delighted to introduce our exclusive flagship Research Topic series: 15 Years of Frontiers in Psychiatry.

This Research Topic aims to critically reflect on the pivotal milestones, paradigm shifts, and debates within psychiatric research over the past 15 years, while also highlighting current cutting-edge developments and illuminating key future research directions to advance mental wellbeing at both societal and individual levels.

We warmly invite leading voices from across the global psychiatric research community to contribute with reviews, cutting edge original-research articles, mini-reviews, perspective or opinion pieces. Contributors will shape not only the scholarly narrative of the past 15 years but also set the foundation for future breakthroughs that will define the field and improve global mental wellbeing.

Topics considered within the scope of this Research Topic include, but are not limited to:

- Promotion of mental wellbeing, disorder prevention, and supportive mental health care strategies.
- Exploration of protective factors, risk factors, and patterns associated with mental health experiences at a population level.
- Examination of social inclusion, social equity, and community factors influencing mental health outcomes.
- Understanding the influence and role of employment and labor conditions on mental wellbeing.
- Development and implementation of supportive policies, services, and interventions for mental health at a population scale.
- Investigating mechanisms underlying anxiety, stress-related conditions, obsessive-compulsive disorders (OCD), and related experiences.
- Clinical understanding and characterization of anxiety-related experiences, including generalized anxiety, phobias, panic episodes, and post-traumatic stress reactions.
- Evaluation and development of innovative, accessible, and effective interventions and therapies for anxiety and stress-related conditions.
- Analysis of relevant biomarkers and disability considerations directly connected to understanding and supporting mental health conditions.
- Sharing impactful discoveries clearly and respectfully with researchers, health providers, policymakers, communities, and the global public.

Please note: submissions to this Research Topic are by invitation only. If you are interested in submitting an article to this Research Topic but have not been invited via the Call for Participation, please contact the journal team at psychiatry@frontiersin.org to enquire if your planned submission will be suitable.

Article types and fees

This Research Topic accepts the following article types, unless otherwise specified in the Research Topic description:

• Brief Research Report
• Case Report
• Clinical Trial
• Community Case Study
• Conceptual Analysis
• Curriculum, Instruction, and Pedagogy
• Data Report
• Editorial
• FAIR² Data
• ... View all formats

Articles that are accepted for publication by our external editors following rigorous peer review incur a publishing fee charged to Authors, institutions, or funders.

Article types

This Research Topic accepts the following article types, unless otherwise specified in the Research Topic description:

• Brief Research Report
• Case Report
• Clinical Trial
• Community Case Study
• Conceptual Analysis
• Curriculum, Instruction, and Pedagogy
• Data Report
• Editorial
• FAIR² Data
• General Commentary
• Hypothesis and Theory
• Methods
• Mini Review
• Opinion
• Original Research
• Perspective
• Policy and Practice Reviews
• Policy Brief
• Registered Report
• Review
• Study Protocol
• Systematic Review

Keywords: anxiety, stress disorders, public mental health, wellbeing, society

Important note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.