About this Book

 How can education better support the mental health & wellbeing of young

people? Research in the 1970s that addressed this question has since proven

seminal to the development of two co-existing fields of research that continue

to offer mutually informative insights: Developmental Psychopathology (DP) and

Educational Effectiveness Research (EER). DP and EER share the common agenda

of understanding factors that relate to individuals’ learning and development: DP

focuses on the individual learning and developing in context, EER investigates the

educational systems, structures, and processes that shape how individuals learn

and develop.

Given the complementarity of DP and EER, it is somewhat surprising that they have

rarely joined forces and synthesised knowledge to develop a fuller understanding of

the roles educational contexts play in the mental health and wellbeing of students.

This Research Topic aims to stimulate such collaboration.