2021 Volume 60 Pages 104-121
The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of trends in research on school psychology published in Japan from July 2019 to June 2020 and to discuss future prospects for school psychology research. School psychology is a discipline that integrates school education and psychology, but it is necessary to build a foundation for integrating research findings. In this paper, we define school education as a system consisting of mutual provisions of "systematic device"-"local culture"-"individual act," and which dimension of school education each school psychology research focuses on. From this point of view, school psychology research was classified and organized. As a result, it became clear that relatively few studies were published during this period that focus on school education, including the dimension of "institution." Toward integrating school education and psychology, school psychology research requires a research design that keeps the dimension of "institution" in mind.
