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Infant mental health and attachment

Edited by:

Lakshmi Sravanti, MD, DM, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, India
Iris Chih-Tsai Chen, MD, MPH, PhD, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Taoyuan Psychiatric Center, Ministry of Health and Welfare and Department of Music, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan
Shu-Tsen Liu, MD, PhD, Department of Child and Adolescent Development and Mental Health, China Medical University Children’s Hospital, Taiwan

Submission Status: Open   |   Submission Deadline: 31 July 2025 
 

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health is calling for submissions to our Collection on Infant mental health and attachment.

Infant mental health encompasses the child’s ability to experience, regulate, and express emotions, as well as to form secure relationships and explore their environment, while achieving milestones along the course of development. Attachment, on the other hand, refers to the early bonds formed between infants and caregivers, which serve as the foundation for later emotional and social development.

This Collection will explore both the distinct and interrelated roles of infant mental health and attachment, offering insights into their developmental significance and the implications for caregiving and clinical interventions. 

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New Content ItemThis Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 3: Good Health & Well-Being.

  1. Mental health issues in preschool children are a significant public health concern with long-term developmental implications. Understanding how reallocations of time among different 24-hour movement behaviors-...

    Authors: Tian Wang, Junyu Wang, Xuelin Lu, Xuhui Chen, Lanzhi Chen, Yixin Liang, DongQing Yang, Yanmei Shi, Rui Li, Yong Yang, Beibei Luo and Jie Zhuang
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2025 19:52
    Content type: Research Published on:

  2. The Covid-19 pandemic restrictions severely impacted parents’ and children’s mental and physical health. Families with pre-existing stress factors may have been particularly affected. Parental stress following...

    Authors: Alina Fendel, Tamara Fuschlberger, Anna Friedmann, Ina Nehring, Marcus Krüger, Volker Mall and Verena Kraus
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2025 19:41
    Content type: Research Published on:

  3. Longitudinal studies of associations between executive function (EF) and parenting behaviors during early childhood and resilience, self-regulation, and behavioral problems in school-age children are scarce. T...

    Authors: Lalin Rungsattatharm, Priyakorn Tasingha, Pon Trairatvorakul and Weerasak Chonchaiya
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2025 19:19
    Content type: Research Published on:

Submission Guidelines

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This Collection welcomes submission of original research and reviews Should you wish to submit a different article type, please read our submission guidelines to confirm that type is accepted by the journal. 

Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. Please, select the appropriate Collection title “Infant mental health and attachment" under the “Details” tab during the submission stage.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer-review process. The peer-review of any submissions for which the Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.