Selected Journals about Student Life and Development
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Positive Aspects of International Student Transitions: A Qualitative Inquiry
Using a Critical Incident Technique methodology and a positive psychology lens, the authors found the following categories helped facilitate international student transitions: growth and/or change, social support/building relationships, learning to navigate host culture, enjoyable activities outside of schoolwork, previous experiences and preparation, supportive faculty and staff, persevering through hard times, and a sense of belonging.
Journal of College Student Development, Volume 52, No. 3., May-June 2011.
Journals that report on students and their total development—social, physical, emotional, and ethical as well as intellectual.
- About Campus covers the critical issues faced by both student affairs and academic affairs staff to help students learn.
- College Student Journal publishes original investigations and theoretical papers dealing with college student values, attitudes, opinions and learning. Includes coverage of graduate and professional schools.
- Journal of American College Health promotes the exchange of information relating to health in institutions of higher education; clinical and preventive medicine, environmental and community health and safety, health promotion and education for college health professionals.
- Journal of College Counseling contains articles on research, professional issues and ethics, and new approaches to improve student services.
- Journal of College Student Development, the largest empirical research journal in the field of student affairs and higher education, and the official journal of the American College Personnel Association.
- Journal of College Student Psychotherapy is dedicated to exploring significant issues in the field of college student mental health.
- NASPA Journal publishes contemporary scholarship in student affairs administration, research, and practice. Written for student affairs generalists who have broad responsibility for educational leadership, policy, staff development, and management.
- New Directions for Student Services offers a series of thematic journals offering guidelines and programs for aiding students in their total development--emotional, social and physical as well as intellectual.
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