Evaluating Health and Wellness in Schools: Assessment, Predictors, and Interventions

Dear Colleagues,

Recently, the relationship between health and wellness within schools has been an emerging area of focus, revealing how students’ physical, emotional, and social wellbeing may influence general development. Therefore, the current Special Issue focuses on enriching one’s understanding of these perspectives in the school setting using information from students, their parents, teachers, and school personnel. It aims to evaluate levels of psychological health and wellbeing, identify factors influencing health and wellness, and determine how schools can foster positive student’s wellbeing.

We are pleased to invite researchers to contribute empirical works and/or reviews that fall within the scope of this Special Issue. Studies addressing assessments, predictive relationships, and interventions are particularly welcomed. Studies designed to address methodological shortcomings and suggestions for improving assessments in school health and wellness are also welcomed.

Research areas relevant to the Special Issue may include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Assessment of health and wellness in schools, new instruments, modifications, validation studies
• Predictors of health and wellness outcomes, applications and extension of theoretical schemes that explain relevant outcomes on school health and wellbeing.
• Interventions to promote health and wellness: experimental, quasi-experimental studies, cohort and cohort sequential studies, and clinical trials are also welcomed.
• The role of technology in health and wellness assessment and intervention
• School intervention and practices that promote health and wellbeing in students

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Georgios Sideridis
Dr. Kosuke Kawai
Guest Editors

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• student health
• school safety
• teacher satisfaction
• student aberrant responding
• bullying and victimization
• teacher burnout
• school-based interventions
• disability
• validity
• reliability
• evaluations