2016 Volume 55 Pages 133-147
This article reviews trends and issues in studies on school psychology published between July 2014 and June 2015. Many findings have been accumulated in studies on school psychology. That said, the scope of the studies is so wide and interrelated with other fields that it has been pointed out that it is hard to get a whole picture of the accumulated findings of the studies. In order to solve this issue, it is necessary to organize the findings by setting up different analytical frameworks. And this article employs the ecological system theory to classify the findings in a comprehensive and unique way. The results are grouped into the following categories: the microsystem, the mesosystem, the exosystem, the macrosystem, and the chronosystem. The classification finds that this year sees many microsystem studies and few other studies, which shows that less emphasis is placed on the environment where children grow up. In conclusion, it is important to make school education fit the social context and study each of the five systems equally, to integrate the findings so that the knowledge is going to be used in a coordinated manner.
