Psychology in the Schools - Call for Proposals for Special Issues
Shane Jimerson
We encourage proposals for Special Issues in Psychology in the Schools at this time, and all proposals will be reviewed in the first half of December 2025. For those interested in submitting a proposal for review in December, we strongly encourage you to submit your proposal no later than December 1, 2025.
Please see more information below and within the linked file of detailed proposal instructions.
Special issues published within Psychology in the Schools (PITS) are intended to address topics that are likely to advance science, practice, and/or policy and are relevant to the journal’s stated mission: Psychology in the Schools is a journal devoted to scholarship advancing the practice of school psychology internationally. We welcome original research focusing on the issues confronting school psychologists, teachers, counselors, and administrators in preschool through secondary / high school. We prioritize manuscripts that feature empirical evidence, intervention science, and data-informed approaches to improve outcomes for students. Preference will be given to manuscripts that clearly describe implications for the practice of school psychology in the schools.
We aim for special issues to address a topic that is either relatively new but expected to be important for advancing the field, or is a topic that has generated a fair amount of scholarship in past years but can benefit from contemporary updates on the “status” or empirical evidence on the topic. Special issues should generate relatively strong interest and readership, and the published issue must include several scholarly papers that each have clear relevance to the special issue topic.
Read instructions for submitting a special issue proposal here
The information in this document provides: instructions for submitting a special issue proposal, additional considerations to be aware of as you prepare your proposal, and links to other documents that will further support you in developing a strong proposal. Please read the content in the document carefully and we thank you for your interest in proposing a special issue for consideration within Psychology in the Schools.
Wishing each of you health, wellness, and wellbeing.
Sincerely,
Editor-in-Chief
Shane R. Jimerson, University of California-Santa Barbara, United States
Special Issue Editor
John Begeny, North Carolina State University, United States
Associate Editors
Christopher Boyle, University of Adelaide, Australia
Jesus Alfonso D. Datu, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR of China
Caterina Gawrilow, University of Tübingen, Germany
James Hall, University of Southampton, England
Francis Huang, University of Missouri, United States
Ronnel King, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR of China
Gregory Arief D Liem, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Michael D. Lyons, University of Virginia, United States
Chuang Wang, University of North Carolina - Charlotte, United States
Consulting Editors
Kelly-Ann Allen, Monash University, Australia
Catherine Bradshaw, University of Virginia, United States
Dorothy Espelage, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, United States
Jennifer Greif Green, Boston University, United States
Chryse Hatzichristou, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Neil Humphrey, University of Manchester, England
Eve Kikas, Tallinn University, Estonia
Christina Salmivalli, University of Turku, Finland
Raquel Souza Lobo Guzzo, Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas, Brazil
Jantine Spilt, KU Leuven, Belgium
Feliciano Veiga, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Yayoi Watanabe, Hosei University Tokyo, Japan
Frank C. Worrell, University of California - Berkeley, United States
and PITS Editorial Board Members from more than 40 countries around the world
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