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Call for Papers: Global Perspectives on Parent Wellbeing, Support, and Prevention

Introduction

Parents and caregivers play a fundamental role in supporting the healthy development and emotional well-being of children. The mental health prevention research and policy development process suffers from insufficient consideration of parental experiences and perspectives. Contemporary families face economic pressures, social isolation and digital influences, and evolving caregiving expectations as their primary challenges. The challenges that parents face today demonstrate the need for research about their well-being and evidence-based methods that enhance their capacity to manage parental responsibilities.

The special issue “Global Perspectives on Parent Wellbeing Research” in Mental Health Prevention invites researchers, practitioners and policymakers to submit scholarly works that analyse parental experiences in different cultural and social environments.

The study should focus on methods that support parental wellbeing together with innovative approaches that enhance family unity. The special issue intends to create preventive solutions for current parenting issues, which will lead to worldwide improvements in parental well-being and family outcomes that last for many years.

The issue aims to advance knowledge in parent mental health research, which examines how parental wellbeing affects family dynamics and child development.

Scope

The special issue accepts interdisciplinary research that studies how parents and caregivers from different cultural and social backgrounds experience their needs and strengths. The research scope includes studies that show how prevention methods and parenting support can enhance well-being for both parents and their children.

The submission process allows researchers to investigate various topics that impact family wellbeing through their studies of social, psychological and economic factors that shape parenting behaviour and parental health.

  • Studies that investigate parent mental health and emotional well-being across different family settings.
  • Research that assesses how effective parenting prevention programs succeed in delivering positive results for families.
  • Research that studies both formal and informal methods that parents use to obtain parenting advice and wellbeing support.
  • Research that investigates the obstacles that prevent people from obtaining parenting resources and their associated systems of support.
  • Research that examines how community ties, social isolation, and loneliness impact parental behaviour.
  • Research that studies how economic challenges impact family behaviour, which in turn affects parenting and preventive measures.
  • Research that studies how parents use digital platforms, which include social media and online communities, for their parenting research.
  • Studies that examine how parent-child relationship patterns affect child development and family health outcomes.

    • Know More About This Issue

    The development of mental health prevention programs needs to understand how parents experience their roles as caregivers. Recent studies on parent mental health show that parental stress and social isolation, combined with restricted access to support services, create negative effects on both parent mental health and child development.

    The research on parent wellbeing shows that supportive family environments lead to better developmental, emotional and behavioural outcomes in children. The prevention science field now emphasises parental resilience development through community engagement and social support networks and evidence-based interventions.

    The special issue requires authors to submit research that examines how parental wellbeing support programs, together with prevention strategies, can solve current challenges faced by parents today. The goal is to establish a more robust evidence foundation that will guide academic research and policy development for family well-being.

    Researchers should investigate how prevention-based methods, together with parenting programs, strengthen family bonds while enhancing parent mental health and delivering enduring benefits to both parents and their children.

    parent mental health research

    Key Themes

  • The research studies parent wellbeing across various cultural and social environments.
  • The research investigates parent mental health studies, which show their effects on child development.
  • The research assesses how well parenting programs succeed in achieving better family results.
  • The research studies which methods help build better support systems for parental wellbeing and their associated services.
  • Research investigates how digital platforms, social media networks and online communities function as research tools for parenting support studies.
  • The research examines which factors make it difficult for families to reach parenting support services and family assistance programs.
  • The study investigates how social isolation, community bonding and parental loneliness impact parents.
  • The research uses prevention methods to create family wellbeing research, which delivers new findings to the field.

    • How We Support Your Submission

    Publishing in international special issues requires researchers to develop high-quality study designs, which must include clear research methods and effective scientific communication skills. The research support services we provide help researchers develop manuscripts that adhere to the publication standards of Mental Health & Prevention.

  • The academic editing service, together with the manuscript refinement process, helps writers achieve better clarity and scholarly presentation.
  • The service provides researchers with support to researchers who study parent wellbeing and family-based research.
  • The support services provide researchers with guidance to organise their studies on parent mental health and prevention science.
  • The service provides help to researchers who need to share their findings about parenting programs and intervention research.
  • The service provides formatting and language editing to help researchers meet the requirements of international journal submission standards.
  • The service helps researchers submit their manuscripts while they prepare answers to reviewer comments.
  • The expert review service helps researchers enhance the scientific value of their parenting support research manuscripts.

    • Journal Guidelines:

  • Authors must submit original manuscripts that they have not submitted to any other journal for review.
  • Submissions should follow the Mental Health & Prevention Guide for Authors, which includes formatting and referencing requirements.
  • The research in manuscripts must establish its connection to research on mental and behavioural disorder prevention methods.
  • Submissions may present new empirical data, existing dataset analyses, prevention or promotion trial results, or systematic review findings.
  • Manuscripts must demonstrate their importance to research on family wellbeing, strategies for supporting parents, and interventions that focus on prevention.
  • All submissions must be submitted through the journal’s Editorial Manager® system.
  • Authors must choose the “VSI: Parent Wellbeing, Support, and Prevention” article type during submission.
  • All manuscripts will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process.

    • Important Dates

    Submission Deadline: 23 September 2026

    To ensure successful and timely submission to the special issue “Global Perspectives on Parent Wellbeing, Support, and Prevention,” researchers are encouraged to seek expert publication support from conceptualisation to final submission.  

    Free Guide: How to Write the Journal Manuscript

    Book a free consultation to get guidance from the PhD assistance research lab for writing a credible research manuscript and submitting it in the high-quality journal.

    Reference

    Elsevier. (2026, March 11). Global perspectives on parent wellbeing, support, and prevention (Call for papers). Mental Health & Prevention. https://www.journals.elsevier.com

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