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Special issue on “Forensic Geriatric Psychiatry”

Special Issue Guest Editor: Peter Schönknecht (Leipzig University)
Editors-in-Chief: Frieder R. Lang (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany); Johannes Pantel (Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Germany)

GeroPsych is announcing a special issue on “Forensic Geriatric Psychiatry” to be published in 2022 or 2023.

The development of western societies comprises by the constant increase of the aging population maladaptive or symptomatic behavior for neuropsychiatric disorders on the one hand, but a constant transition of ageing forensic patients on the other. The issue will focus on both domains and aims to help early diagnosis as a solid basis for prognostic decisions and prevention programs.

The Special Issue on Forensic Geriatric Psychiatry will be the first issue of articles to provide a comprehensive review of important topics in the intersection of geriatric psychiatry, medicine, clinical neuroscience, forensic psychiatry, and law (elder driving, sociopathy, aggression, cognitive impairment, substance abuse, trauma etc.). It will speak to a broad audience of clinical and forensic psychiatry but also aims to cover mental health professionals, geriatricians, attorneys and courts, regulators, working with the older population.

We anticipate original manuscript submissions from clinical forensic psychiatry and psychology, geriatrics, geropsychology, gerontology, geriatric psychiatry, sociology, elder legislative and oversite bodies. Authors are invited to submit original research, clinical case reports as well as conceptual or review papers for the development of clinical care, social support, caregiver education, legislation and geriatric education for all providers of elder patients.

Authors are invited to submit manuscripts by February 1^st, 2023, via www.editorialmanager.com/geropsych/. Manuscripts must be prepared utilizing the journal’s Instruction to authors available in the downloads section, to be found on the journal’s website at www.hogrefe.com/us/journal/geropsych.

Authors are encouraged to consult the Guest Editor Prof. Dr. Peter Schönknecht (University Leipzig; email: peter.schoenknecht@medizin.uni-leipzig.de) in advance for advice and suggestions regarding submissions before the deadline above. Manuscripts will undergo a full process of peer review in an appropriate turn-around time. This special issue is anticipated to be published in the late year of 2023.

Interested researchers and submitters will find a sample special edition of GeroPsych at econtent.hogrefe.com/toc/gro/31/3.

Special Issue on “Arts-based interventions for older adults”

Guest Editor: Shoshi Keisari (University of Haifa)
Editors-in-Chief: Frieder R. Lang (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany); Johannes Pantel (Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany)

GeroPsych is announcing a special issue on arts-based interventions to be published in 2023 or 2024. In this special issue we invite papers that focus on creative arts therapies and arts interventions with stated therapeutic intent.

Creative arts therapies are health care professions, which consist of intentional and systematic use of creative and expressive processes of art-making to promote health and well-being. A growing body of research has established the positive effect of creative arts therapies in improving various aspects of mental health in late life. Visual arts, music, dance-movement, drama, literature and poetry provide an alternative means of expression to help individuals understand, make sense of, and cope with their distress, within a therapeutic relationship.

In addition, creative arts therapies encourage participation and address the negative attitudes and stigmas that sometimes accompany mental health services. Thus, clients develop a positive attitude toward the creative processes, as it positions them as active productive contributors in their own communities, instead of “patients” or “clients”.

In this special issue, we invite original manuscript submissions regarding the role of arts-based interventions in promoting health among the older population.  Authors are invited to submit original quantitative and qualitative research, theory-driven clinical case reports, as well as conceptual or review papers. 

Authors are invited to submit manuscripts by April 1^st, 2023 via https://www.editorialmanager.com/geropsych/. Manuscripts muss be prepared in accordance with the journal’s author guidelines (see https://www.hogrefe.com/us/journal/geropsych) and according to the APA publication manual (7^th edition).

Authors are encouraged to consult the Guest Editor Dr. Shoshi Keisari at skeisari(at)gmail.com in advance for advice and suggestions regarding submissions before the deadline above. Manuscripts will undergo a full process of peer review in an appropriate turn-around time.  

Interested researchers and submitters will find a sample special edition of GeroPsych at this link: https://econtent.hogrefe.com/toc/gro/31/3

Special issue on “Ethical aspects in diagnostics, prediction, and treatment of dementia”

Special Issue Guest Editors: Ayda Rostamzadeh (University of Cologne), Frank Jessen (University of Cologne), Katrin Radenbach (University of Göttingen)
Editors-in-Chief: Frieder R. Lang (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany); Johannes Pantel (Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Germany)

GeroPsych is announcing a special issue on “Ethical aspects in diagnostics, prediction, and treatment of dementia” to be published in 2023. 

In light of the demographic changes, we are increasingly confronted with neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD) - the most common etiology for dementia. Expanding technologies allow pre-symptomatic biomarker-based disease detection, which have led to a new understanding of the disease with a long preclinical and prodromal phase before the stage of dementia. However, an effective treatment, which is capable of substantially slowing disease progression and preventing dementia in AD, is still missing. During the course of disease patients, caregivers, and clinicians are confronted with variable challenges, that are of personal, psychological, social, legal, and economic nature. The aim of this issue of the journal is to reflect on ethical implications, which encounter within the disease spectrum, from biomarker-based detection of the early asymptomatic phase to the diagnosis and treatment of dementia.

We anticipate original manuscript submissions from the field of clinical geriatrics and neurology, geropsychology, gerontology, geriatric psychiatry, social sciences, neuroscience, medical ethics, law, and healthcare economy. Authors are invited to submit original research, clinical case reports as well as systematic reviews.

Authors are invited to submit manuscripts by October 1^st, 2022 via https://www.editorialmanager.com/geropsych/. Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the journal’s author guidelines available in the downloads section above and according to the APA publication manual (7^th edition).

Authors are encouraged to consult the Guest Editor Dr. Ayda Rostamzadeh (email: ayda.rostamzadeh(at)uk-koeln.de) in advance for advice and suggestions regarding submissions before the deadline above. Manuscripts will undergo a full process of peer review in an appropriate turn-around time. 

Interested researchers and submitters will find a sample special edition of GeroPsych at this link: https://econtent.hogrefe.com/toc/gro/31/3.