Journal of Mental Health Disorders

Commentary Open Access

Inclusive Online Collaborative Learning Environments: Implications for Teaching, Social, and Cognitive Presence

Hans Rüdiger Kaufmann , Henning Tirrel , Dolores Sanchez Bengoa

The rapid pivot to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic has permanently transformed education, elevating e-learning to a global mainstream modality while exposing new opportunities and challenges. This paper summarizes the study from Kaufmann et al. (2022), and examines professional education in the context of the Erasmus+ Ka226 Project, focusing on the interplay between instructional, technological, and mental health paradigms that underpin inclusive online collaborative learning.

Review Open Access

The Neuroscientific Commonalities between Music Listening and Schizophrenia: A Narrative Review

Kyusik Hyun

Music listening and schizophrenia substantially involve emotion, subjective experience, motivation, and cognition in a complex manner. Despite these similarities, existing research appears to offer limited synthesis of their shared neuroscientific foundations. Accordingly, this narrative review integrates findings on the neural mechanisms underlying music listening and schizophrenia, based on analyses of peer-reviewed journal articles retrieved from PubMed, PsycINFO, and Nature Research databases, to specifically address their neurobiological parallels.

Commentary Open Access

Effects of Using a Big Project Picture on Team Motivation

Raphaela Fichtinger

Contemporary project environments involve increasing complexity and psychological demands, while mental health remains underrepresented in project management research. This article presents the big project picture as a holistic visual approach to enhance shared understanding and reduce uncertainty in projects.

Commentary Open Access

Music as a Collective Container for Trauma: The Performances of Verdi’s Messa da Requiem in the Terezín Ghetto

Michal Ulitzur-Zemel , Zvi Semel

Building on an earlier analysis of the repeated performances of Verdi’s Messa da Requiem in the Terezín ghetto, this article revisits the undertaking as a paradigmatic instance of musical practice under conditions of radical persecution. Drawing on survivors’ testimonies and historical–musicological sources, and guided by psychoanalytic concepts, we suggest that Verdi’s Requiem could function as a collective container in Bion’s sense: a structured musical–textual matrix that received death and terror and returned it in forms that could be borne, shared, and symbolically elaborated.

Commentary Open Access

Obstacles to the Development of School Psychology and School Counselling in Germany and Perspectives for the Future

Norbert Grewe , Lutz Thomas

This commentary refers to the article: ‘The future of psychology in schools – a review and outlook: with particular reference to the role of school psychology’. For a better understanding, some additional information has also been included. Basic problems in the German education system, as they have become apparent (among other things) in international studies, must be urgently addressed.