International Scientific Conference on Integrative Approaches to Mental Health: Neuroscience, Digital Technologies, and Psychological Practice

From the Chair of the Organising Committee It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to the Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference on Integrative Approaches to Mental Health: Neuroscience, Digital Technologies, and Psychological Practice, convened by the Bogomolets National Medical University, Department of General and Medical Psychology, in Kyiv on 10 February 2026. The conference was conceived in recognition of a pivotal moment in the field. The convergence of neuroscientific discovery, rapidly maturing digital health technologies, and evolving psychological practice has created both an extraordinary opportunity and an urgent responsibility. The opportunity lies in our growing capacity to understand mental health with unprecedented precision and to deliver evidence-based support to populations who might previously have received none. The responsibility lies in ensuring that this convergence is guided by scientific rigour, clinical wisdom, and unwavering ethical commitment to the individuals and communities we serve. The twelve papers gathered in this volume represent a remarkable breadth of scholarly endeavour unified by a common integrative spirit. Contributors from leading Ukrainian and international institutions address questions that span the neurobiological architecture of psychological wellbeing, the metacognitive mechanisms underlying resilience and vulnerability, and the evidence base for digital therapeutic platforms in mental health care. Each paper in its own way argues against disciplinary insularity: neuroscience needs psychology; digital innovation needs clinical grounding; practice needs theory; and theory must remain answerable to practice. The conference was organised in three thematic sections. Section I, Neuroscience and Neurophysiology, traces the pathways linking cortical architecture, artistic engagement, and cognitive health, and presents original findings from EEG-based neurointerface research and neural network monitoring in adaptive education. Section II, Metacognition and Decision-Making, examines how metacognitive frameworks illuminate the mechanisms of learned helplessness and neurotic spectrum disorders, opening new therapeutic directions for populations in which conventional approaches have proven insufficient. Section III, Digital Advances in Mental Health and Beyond, constitutes the volume's most expansive section, encompassing digital therapeutic platforms, projective psychodiagnostics, virtual therapy, mobile stress interventions, psycho-oncology, digital hospital governance, and integrative multimodal assessment. Together these contributions map both the current frontier and the immediate horizon of integrative mental health science. The Organising Committee is deeply grateful to all contributing authors for their scholarly generosity and the quality of their contributions. We extend particular thanks to the Department of General and Medical Psychology at Bogomolets National Medical University for its institutional commitment to this initiative, and to the reviewers whose careful work has elevated every paper in this collection. We also acknowledge, with profound respect, the broader context of Ukrainian resilience and intellectual vitality in which this conference took place. It is our hope that these proceedings will serve not merely as a record of a conference, but as a living resource for researchers, clinicians, educators, and policymakers engaged in the continuing work of advancing mental health science and practice. The questions addressed here do not admit of simple or final answers; they demand precisely the kind of sustained, integrative, and evidence-driven inquiry that this volume both represents and, we trust, will inspire. Dr. H.C. Adrian Hall Chair, Organising Committee International Scientific Conference on Integrative Approaches to Mental Health Kyiv, February 2026