Student Development and Behavioral Health: The Influence of Environment and Relationships

Dear Colleagues,

One of the challenges in education is promoting students’ cognitive development, raising students’ academic achievements, and improving students’ social emotional learning, including students’ behavioral health. Recently, the COVID-19 pandemic has led policymakers to begin embracing a more comprehensive definition of student well-being in their design of new education policies.

As overall student well-being moves towards the forefront of policymakers’ agendas, there is a need to better understand the social–environmental factors that determine students’ behavioral outcomes. Given today’s rapidly changing society, the social–environmental determinants of behavioral outcomes may vary significantly across geographical boundaries and time periods. Understanding these factors will help support the design of evidence-based, contextually sensitive approaches to improving student behavioral outcomes, which will in turn enable more students to succeed in school and in life.

In this Special Issue, we invite researchers in public health, psychology, health economics, and other social sciences to submit high-quality empirical papers related to the issues in this important research area.

You may choose our Joint Special Issue in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

Dr. Huan Wang
Dr. Scott D. Rozelle
Guest Editors

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• behavioral health
• mental health
• early childhood development
• K-12 education
• social emotional learning
• social environment
• resilience

• Student Development and Behavioral Health: The Influence of Environment and Relationships in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (5 articles)