About the Journal

FIRST PUBLICATION

the year 2017.

 

PUBLICATION FREQUENCY

Since 2023 - Continuous Publishing Model

1-2 issue/year

 

PUBLISHER

Since 2022 - The Publisher of MHGC Journal is De Gruyter (Sciendo)

2018-2021 - The Publisher was NDSAN Network (MFC – Coordinator of the NDSAN) (Postal address: Italy, Ciampino, Rome, Via della Repubblica, 6, postal code 00043), (Italy).

 

ISSUE TYPE

Scientific research Journal

 

ISSUE STATUS

National/International

 

ISSUE LANGUAGES

English

 

MEDIA ENVIRONMENT

International

 

TARGET AUDIENCE

Scientists/researchers (medical, social, educational fields and etc.), mental health (MH) practitioners, policy-makers, researchers, lawyers.

 

MAJOR OBJECTIVES

  • To draw the attention of researchers and policy-makers to urgent problems of mental health care (MHC).
  • To provide a platform for dissemination of ideas and development of academic and non-academic network of MHC researchers, practitioners and policy-makers.
  • To promote high quality research, most specifically on MH in developing countries and countries in transition.
  • To investigate multi-disciplinary, transdisciplinary and multicultural aspects and solutions related to MHC

FIELD OF STUDY AND SPECIAL FOCUS

Medicine, Health, Social Sciences, Education, Economics, Law, Inter- and Transdisciplinary studies

 

TOPICS

MHC systems in the context of global social challenges:

Mental health and migration:

Mental health in times of military conflicts

Mental health and community

Specific issues of MHC: child neuropsychiatry; support for people with disabilities, work with elders related to mental health; MHC in rural areas; addictive behavior

Higher Education and MHC

Research and innovations in MH and MHC

ABBREVIATION KEY TITLE

MHGCJ

 

LICENSE TERMS (COPYRIGHT NOTICE)

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

 

Authors retain copyright and grant the Journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a  Creative Commons Attribution License International CC-BY, that allows others to share the work, with an acknowledgement of the works authorship and initial publication in this Journal.

Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g. post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in Mental Health: Global Challenges Journal

Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g. in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as an earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

OPEN-ACCESS STATEMENT

This Journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

 Full-text access to scientific articles of the journal is presented on the official website in the Archives section.

 We sustain free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself.

 In this regard, the only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.

We strongly recommend, for the authors who would like to republish a work that has been previously published in our Journal, to include an acknowledgement with the mention of its first publication of the scientific paper, in the further publication.