Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

In their paper entitled “Vantage sensitivity: a framework for individual differences in response to psychological intervention” de Villiers et al. highlight the importance of environmental sensitivity as an overarching meta-framework and emphasize …

Children and adolescents are susceptible to mental health problems after a disaster [ 1 ]. Most adolescent victims display only transient psychological symptoms that represent a normal reaction to traumatic events. Persistent symptoms, in contrast …

The term NEET, coined in the United Kingdom [ 1 ], is now used widely to refer to young people who are “Not in Education, Employment or Training”. There has been growing concern about this group, given its high risk for adverse economic, health …

In 2015, suicide was the second leading cause of death among people between the ages of 15–19 and 20–29 years old [ 1 ]. According to research from the National Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance system at the Centers for Disease Control and …