Dear Colleagues,

This special issue seeks to address the impact of somatic disorders and medical issues on men’s psychological health across the lifespan. The goal is to bring together researchers addressing the impact of physical illnesses and medical issues on mental health and wellbeing in order to inform intervention programs to facilitate prevention, treatment, rehabilitation,and quality of life in medical patients, their partners, families and their informal caregivers.

The current special issue welcomes research papers in the area of men’s psychological health informed by all disciplines including but not limited to psychology, behavioral medicine, public health sciences, epidemiology and biostatistics, family therapy, and nursing, addressing patients, couples, families and caregivers.

Reports of interdisciplinary approaches to research are particularly welcomed.

Dr. M. Graça Pereira

Guest Editor

Manuscripts should be submitted via our online editorial system at https://imr.propub.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to start your submission. Manuscripts can be submitted now or up until the deadline. All papers will go through peer-review process. Accepted papers will be published in the journal (as soon as accepted) and meanwhile listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, reviews as well as short communications are preferred. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office to announce on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts will be thoroughly refereed through a double-blind peer-review process. Please visit the Instruction for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) in this open access journal is 1500 USD. Submitted manuscripts should be well formatted in good English.