Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: Co-occurring Disorders and Integrated Treatment
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 218
Special Issue Editor
Interests: traumatology; family resilience; disaster trauma; collective trauma; mental health
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
I am delighted, as Guest Editor, to personally invite you to submit a paper for our special issue on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), to be published in the journal, Healthcare. If accepted, your paper will join by other investigators, practitioner-scholars, and theorists who have addressed some aspects of the PTSD diagnosis, assessment, and treatment, including other, co-occurring mental disorders. We are especially recruiting colleagues like you who would be submitting data-based papers. However, other types of papers will be considered such as targeted literature reviews, systematic reviews, theoretical papers.
The Aim of the Special Issue is to assemble papers announce, recruit, and publish new papers on PTSD and co-occuring mental disorders and their treatments that would be of special interest to readers of Healthcare. Thus, papers published in this Special Issue aims to significantly contributed the literature focusing on healthcare mental health and PTSD especially relevant to mental health practitioners.
In this Special Issue include, original research articles, systematic reviews, theoretical and clinical intervention papers are welcome.
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Charles R. Figley
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. Healthcare is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly 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 2700 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
- trauma
- post-traumatic
- stress disorders
- traumatology
- traumatic stress reactions
- secondary traumatic stress reactions
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