Promoting Mental Health and Wellbeing in Education: Counselling, Collaboration, and Practice
A special issue of Education Sciences (ISSN 2227-7102). This special issue belongs to the section "Education and Psychology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2026 | Viewed by 13
Special Issue Editor
Interests: school counselling; dyslexia, wellbeing and auto/ethnography; learning disabilities/specific learning difficulties; personal and social development/emotional literacy/processing; inclusion and literacy access to learning
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue explores the intersections of education, counselling, and mental health, focusing on agency, lived experience, and transformative practice. We aim to showcase critical perspectives beyond clinical models by amplifying service user voices and promoting inclusive, rights-based approaches to wellbeing in educational contexts. Contributions grounded in mad studies, critical disability studies, and participatory research are especially welcomed. The issue invites theoretical, empirical, and practice-based submissions highlighting school counsellors' roles, interdisciplinary collaborations, student voices, and the challenges of navigating mental health systems from within and outside institutions.
Dr. Ruth Falzon
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- student agency
- school counselling
- mental health in education
- mad studies
- service user involvement
- inclusive practice
- trauma-informed education
- participatory research
- critical perspectives on wellbeing
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