Call for papers: Sleep Disorders: Innovations in Clinical and Health Psychology, protective factors, risk factors, interventions and relationship with other clinical variables.

Sleep disorders are highly prevalent, have high comorbidity and high socio-economic costs. Research on the various sleep disorders and factors for their improvement is essential. This monograph includes original research that helps to answer fundamental questions about sleep quality and improvement of sleep disorders. The aim of this monograph is on the one hand to include innovations from sleep research, on the other hand to expand knowledge on psychological and health interventions for the improvement of sleep quality and the treatment of major sleep disorders.

Guest editors:

Prof. Gualberto Buela-Casal
University of Granada, Granada, Spain
Fields of Interest: Clinical Psychology, Sleep Dissorders

Prof. Dr. Alejandro Guillén-Riquelme
Universidad Internacional de Valencia (VIU), Valencia, Spain
Fields of Interest: Psychometrics, meta-analysis, anxiety, Sleep

Profa. Dra. Katie Moraes de Almondes
Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil
Fields of Interest: Sleep Psychology, Sleep Neuropsychology, Health Psychology, Cognition, Aging

Manuscript submission information:

Submission deadline: January 30, 2025

On behalf of Prof. Gualberto Buela-Casal, we are pleased to invite you to submit your manuscript at any time before the submission deadline. Please feel free to send your inquiries about the appropriateness of contribution topics to the email yiying.zhang@elsevier.com.

The journal’s submission platform (Editorial Manager®) is now available for receiving submissions to this Special Issue. Please refer to the Guide for Authors to prepare your manuscript, and select the article type of “sleep disorders and protective factors” when submitting your manuscript online. Both the Guide for Authors and the submission portal could be found on the Journal Homepage here.

All the submissions deemed suitable to be sent for peer review will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. Upon its editorial acceptance, your article will go into production immediately. It will be published in the latest regular issue, while be presented on the specific Special Issue webpage simultaneously. In regular issues, Special Issue articles will be clearly marked and branded.

Keywords:

Sleep, disorders, quality

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