Editorial [International Journal of Emotional Education, 3(1)]

Abstract

There is no shortage of information about what mental health in children and young people and what can be done about it. Newspapers, magazines, television and the internet are awash with information relating to the topic. Academics from various disciplines generate voluminous theories and ideas on the topic on an apparently daily basis. One of the problems that the reader is confronted by, however, is the challenge of sifting through the sheer volume of available information and making judgements about the relative merits of different views and positions. A major aim of the International Journal of Emotional Education is to help readers from a range of disciplines to make sense of mental health issues in children and young people within an evidence-based approach (cf. Cooper and Jacobs 2011).