Research Topic · Peer-Reviewed

Mental Health

Mental health is a state of emotional, psychological, and social well-being that shapes how people perceive themselves, manage their thoughts and feelings, cope with stress, and engage with others. It spans a continuum from psychological flourishing through subclinical distress to diagnosable conditions, and its out…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 124× across the literature 🗓 Reviewed June 2026

Overview

Mental health is a state of emotional, psychological, and social well-being that shapes how people perceive themselves, manage their thoughts and feelings, cope with stress, and engage with others. It spans a continuum from psychological flourishing through subclinical distress to diagnosable conditions, and its outcomes are powerfully influenced by stigma, social support, and the accessibility and quality of services. From an implementation perspective, the central question is how effective mental-health interventions can be delivered and sustained within real-world settings and constrained systems. The research collected here engages these concerns across varied populations. Several studies focus on the workforce that delivers care, documenting affiliate stigma, compassion satisfaction, and compassion fatigue among providers in psychiatric hospitals. Others address the reach of services to underserved groups, including LGBTQ+ youth, climate-displaced women in urban slums, and the partners of veterans receiving group psychoeducation. The delivery of promotion and prevention is examined through community-based mentoring and coaching for children and through global opinion-data approaches to mental-health promotion, while the influence of religion, the comorbidity of mental and physical illness in cancer survivors, and the population-level impact of the COVID-19 pandemic are also represented. Together these works highlight how mental-health care can be designed, promoted, and embedded so that evidence-based support reaches the people and communities who need it.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 124 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Mental Health, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Implementation science.

Journal editorial board
Nicolette van Veldhoven · Netherlands

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