In the wake of rapid popularization of electronic products and network services and the popularity of online games, in the recent ten years, clinical workers, public health experts, epidemiologists, and policy makers all around the world are highly concerned about the health issues caused by the use of games (especially online games). Since 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) has convened a series of expert meetings in Japan, South Korea, China, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and other places to discuss this issue. Based on the existing scientific evidence and the experts’ consensus formed in the abovementioned meetings, the WHO included gaming disorder as an addictive mental disorder in ICD-11. Although there are some debates, the mainstream viewpoint still highly affirms the necessity of integrating gaming disorder into ICD-11, and believes that the diagnosis will greatly promote the research and prevention of this disorder. In view of the challenges and future work direction in the field of gaming disorder, this article provides some perspectives.

Gaming disorder is a problematic pattern of gaming behavior. The draft ICD-11 puts forward gaming disorder as a new diagnostic category, providing reliable guidelines for screening and for having a definite diagnosis of this kind of disease. By actively developing screening tools and verifying the reliability of the diagnostic guidelines for gaming disorder, the purposes of early identification and accurate diagnosis can be achieved, laying a solid foundation for further research on gaming disorder and effective prevention and intervention.

On August 3, 2021, Economic Information Daily published an article claiming that online games are “spiritual opium”, which seriously affects the healthy development of minors. The National Press and Publication Administration also issued a “Notice on Further Strict Management and Practically Preventing Minors from Indulging in Online Games” in August 2021. All of a sudden, “online games” were pushed to the forefront of the wave again. How to treat online games correctly? How to distinguish between normal gaming behaviors and gaming disorder? How to carry out early prevention and intervention against gaming disorder? These are all issues of concern. The article will explain the abovementioned problems so as to increase the public’s knowledge of gaming disorder, achieving correct knowledge, effective prevention, and hazard reduction.

As one of the important components of social governance, the construction of social psychological service system aims to guide the social mentality effectively by providing psychological services and promote the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity. Based on the academic papers in the field of global psychosocial services in the background of social governance included in the core collection of Web of Science (WOS) from 2011 to 2020, this paper analyzes the current situation and development trend from the perspectives of subject development, academic output, and distribution of major national and research topics. The results show that, in the past ten years, the research in the field of global psychosocial services has shown the characteristics of multidisciplinary intersection, the scale of scientific research output has been expanding; the number of research papers published in the United States, Britain, and Brazil is relatively large; and the research focus is mainly on the exploration of formulating public policy and perfecting social governance from the psychological point of view, the exploration of the solution of social problems based on the cross-discipline perspective of psychology and sociology, and the promotion of the improvement of public mental health level. Social psychological service is one of the compulsory components to promote the modernization of national governance. It is suggested to strengthen the research and practice of interdisciplinary cooperation, to give emphasis to the development of multilevel research from the perspective of policy making and environment intervention, and to carry out research and guide social practice from the perspective of giving impetus to refined governance.

Objective: To explore the correlation of sense of meaning of life and undergraduates’ sense of well-being and the mediating effect of self-control and academic burnout.
Methods: The convenience sampling method was adopted in 2020, and undergraduates of 3 universities were investigated with the Chinese Meaning in Life Questionnaire, Self-control Scale, Learning Burnout of Undergraduates Scale, and Index of Well-Being.
Results: A total of 732 questionnaires were distributed. After excluding invalid questionnaires, there were 709 valid questionnaires, and the effective rate was 96.85%. The results showed that: (1) the sense of meaning of life, sense of well-being, and self-control were all positively correlated (the sense of meaning of life, sense of well-being: r=0.516, p<0.001; the sense meaning of life, self-control: r=0.462, p<0.001; sense of well-being, self-control: r=0.533, p<0.001), while academic burnout was negatively correlated with the three variables including the sense of meaning of life, self-control, and sense of well-being ( the r scores are -0.580, -0.763, and -0.657, respectively; p values are less than 0.001). (2) The meaning of life can not only affect the sense of well-being directly, but also affect it via the chain mediating effect of self-control and academic burnout.
Conclusions: College students’ sense of meaning of life can directly or indirectly affect their sense of well-being, which has an enlightening effect on improving college students’ sense of well-being. It can guide college students to improve their sense of well-being by improving their sense of meaning of life, enhancing their self-control, and reducing academic burnout.

Objective: To explore the differences of the face emotion recognition function between people with paranoid personality disorder and those with healthy personality, and whether people with paranoid personality disorder have any deficit in emotion recognition.
Results: In a university, 15 male students who scored higher than 60 in the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and were diagnosed with paranoid personality disorder by a psychiatrist were selected as the paranoid personality disorder group (experimental group) and 15 male students whose scores of all subscales in MMPI were within the normal range were selected as the healthy control group. Through the emotional intensity recognition task, the similarities and differences of their facial emotion recognition functions were obtained, and the differences between the two groups were compared using t-test.
Results: (1) There was no difference in the overall accuracy and scores in subscales between the two groups in the face emotion recognition task. (2) When evaluating sad faces, the response time of the experimental group was longer than the control group. (3) The experimental group had lower affective intensity ratings on angry, sad, and happy faces than the control group. (4) When rating a certain type of emotion intensity on the faces, emotional faces other than this kind of emotion were non-target emotional faces. The experimental group had higher intensity ratings on anger and disgust of the non-target emotional faces than the control group, and had lower intensity ratings on surprise and happiness of the non-target emotional faces than the control group.
Conclusions: People with paranoid personality disorder could not accurately identify the intensity of anger, sadness, and happiness, and had a tendency to recognize non-target emotional faces as having higher anger and disgust emotion intensity.

Mental illness is influenced by multiple factors and is associated with genetic variation and environmental exposure. Most researches on gene-environment interactions have focused on the joint effect of genetic variation and stress in addition to traumatic experiences on the long-term impact on mental health, but a growing number of studies have found that genetic variants also play a role in treatment outcomes. The impact of genetic variation on psychotherapy is discussed in the hope of helping clinicians choose the best treatment for patients.

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a wide range of far-reaching impact on economic development and people’s health condition around the world. There are gender differences in its impact on human health, and women are up against higher mental health risks during this period. In order to explore the mental health issues of women highlighted in the pandemic, the author reviews studies related to anxiety, depression, suicide, and post-traumatic stress disorder in women in the pandemic, and overviews the disadvantages of social economy, behavioral characteristics of care, and interpersonal relationship that affect women's mental health status, that are financial difficulties, enduring care stress, and exposure to intimate partner violence. Under the pandemic situation, women's mental health intervention should focus on collecting these information and resolving the problems.

Stress is a process that an individual makes adaptive and coping responses when facing or perceiving that the change of environment is threatening or challenging. Major disasters, including the COVID-19 pandemic, can be regarded as important stressors. A lot of studies suggest that addiction is closely related to stress. Epidemiological studies indicate that stress can increase the risk of addiction, and addiction behaviors and related problems have increased after disasters. There are complex behavioral and neurobiological mechanisms behind stress and addiction, which interact with and promote each other. Addiction prevention should not be neglected under stress conditions and after disaster.

After the outbreak of the COVID-19, the whole country has led to unprecedented demand and attention for strengthening the mental health of the people. In the face of such a major public health emergency, the veil on many malpractices in the development of clinical and counseling psychology has been lifted, including training goals derailed from the diverse needs of society, insufficient clinical teaching teachers, unclear orientation of the curriculum system, and insufficient practical skills training. To this end, promoting the high-quality development of academic education, establishing training goals based on clinical competence, and further standardizing the academic training model of clinical and counseling psychology in terms of discipline construction, teacher construction, curriculum setting, practical training and evaluation system are important ways to cultivate applied talents with good professional competence and scientific literacy and to promote the development of clinical and consulting psychology.

The prevalence rate and clinical manifestation of dissociative disorders were closely related to socio-demographic factors such as education level, economic development status, living environment, and religion. We reported the non-specific clinical symptoms of a Mosuo female case diagnosed with dissociative disorders, focused on the influence of the relatively specific subcultural living environment to the patient, and reminded clinical physicians to keep cultural sensitivity in mind when diagnosing, evaluating, and intervening patients with mental disorders.