CAMH 2025 Special Issue – ‘Physical Environmental Influences on the Psychosocial Outcomes of Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults’

The Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) Journal are delighted to announce the CAMH 2025 Special Issue on ‘Physical Environmental Influences on the Psychosocial Outcomes of Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults’, edited by Keri Ka-Yee Wong, Efstathios Papachristou, Marta Francesconi, and Tycho J. Dekkers.

Focused on capturing the multifaceted and dynamic human-environment relationship across a critical stage of development, this Special Issue illustrates the importance of the physical environment in understanding child and adolescent mental health. In their brilliant Special Issue Editorial, Keri Ka-Yee Wong et al. state that they hope that this issue ‘provides helpful examples of good practice and the ways of working together needed to inspire future youth-led context-specific health research’ and encourages readers to ‘rethink public health and education policies, urban planning and design priorities, and clinical research and practice to have young people in the centre of this work.’

With this in mind, this CAMH Special Issue aims to:

• Explore how physical environments affect early psychosocial outcomes.
• Examine how early-life adversity influences later outcomes.
• Engage in future research on the physical environment’s role in youth mental health.

We hope that you can access our Open Access papers and do please share with colleagues to better understand physical environmental influences on the psychosocial outcomes of children, adolescents, and young adults.

Free Access Papers

• Editorial ‘Editorial: ‘Like a bee and a flower’ – the symbiotic relationship between physical environment and children and young people’s psychosocial outcomes’, (March 2025), Keri Ka-Yee Wong, Efstathios Papachristou, Marta Francesconi, Tycho J. Dekkers

Open Access Papers

• Original Article ‘Longitudinal effects of green, blue, and gray spaces on early adolescent mental health in the United States’, (March 2025), Shannon Shaughnessy, Daniel Messinger, Spencer C. Evans
• Original Article ‘Home Fae Home: A case study in co-designing trauma-informed community spaces with young people in Dundee, Scotland’, (April 2025), Charis Robertson, Gary Kennedy, Linsey McIntosh, Anne McKechnie
• Original Article ‘The protective role of community cohesion across rural and urban contexts: implications for youth mental health’, (March 2025), Alexis Brieant, Keith B. Burt
• Original Article ‘Associations between air pollution and surrounding greenness with internalizing and externalizing behaviors among schoolchildren’, (March 2025), Uxue Zubizarreta-Arruti, Rosa Bosch, María Soler Artigas, Judit Cabana-Domínguez, Natalia Llonga, Pau Carabí-Gassol, Valeria Macias-Chimborazo, Laura Vilar-Ribó, Josep Antoni Ramos-Quiroga, Mireia Pagerols, Raquel Prat, Cristina Rivas, Èlia Pagespetit, Júlia Puigbó, Gemma Español-Martín, Bruno Raimbault, Antonia Valentín, Jordi Sunyer, Maria Foraster, Mireia Gascón, Miquel Casas, Marta Ribasés, Silvia Alemany
• Original Article ‘The role of neighbourhood greenspace quantity on mental health and cognitive development in early to middle childhood: a multilevel growth curve analysis of the UK Millennium Cohort Study’, (March 2025), Georgia Cronshaw, Emily Midouhas, Peninah Murage, Eirini Flouri
• Review Article ‘How can nature connectedness and behaviours for learning be deliberately developed in children, adolescents and young adults? A systematic literature review’, (April 2025), Nicole M. Harris, Brettany Hartwell, Louisa Thomas, Marcus Grace
• Commentary ‘Commentary: Can a modernised psychiatric unit space reduce the use of coercive measures in child and adolescent psychiatry? A commentary on Czernine et al. (2024)’, (August 2024), Keri Ka-Yee Wong
• Debate ‘Debate: Urban versus rural environments – which is better for mental health? The one good thing about a small town…’, (March 2025), Reinout W. Wiers, Urban Mental Health Researchers , Hanan El Marroun, Claudi Bockting, Harm Krugers
• Debate ‘Debate: Urban–rural environments – which is better for mental health? Moving beyond urban–rural dichotomies in psychosis risk for young people’, (March 2025), James B. Kirkbride
• Debate ‘Debate: Urban versus rural environments – which is better for mental health? Beyond the urban and rural dichotomy, a call to consider quality, typology and space in greenspace strategies for mental health’, (March 2025), Liza Griffin, Athina Petsou, Ruth Hynes, Gemma Moore
• Narrative Matters ‘Narrative Matters: Improving young people’s mental health through neighbourhood initiatives – the role of ‘collective local intelligence’ in Manchester’, (March 2025), Joe Ravetz
• Clinical Research Update, (May 2025), Marinos Kyriakopoulos, Eleni Vrigkou, Markos Kallinikos, Zinovia Maridaki