1. International Journal of School & Educational Psychology Dr Garry Squires Associate Editor International School Psychology Association Conference 2013: Porto, Portugal

2. Editorial board The editorial board are all ISPA members. Editor in Chief is Rik D’Amato, who was based at the University of Macau in China. Assistant Editors Andrew DavisBall State University, USA Beth DollUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA John KranzlerUniversity of Florida, USA Barry MallinUniversity of Manitoba, Canada Garry SquiresUniversity of Manchester, United Kingdom Gertina van SchalkwykUniversity of Macau, Macao SAR, China Peter Farrell has acted as a guest editor We need more associate editors, especially women in Europe Dr Garry Squires 20132

3. Aims and Scope Does your research have global implications? Do your findings suggest how best to serve children, youth, and families? Could all school and evidence-based psychologists learn from your results? Should the generation, dissemination, and preservation of research be an important part of what you do? Have you considered how you could (and perhaps should) help developing countries, demonstrate the importance of evidence-based initiatives? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, you should consider publishing your work in IJSEP Dr Garry Squires 20133

4. IJSEP seeks to bridge the gap between Eastern and Western psychology, special educational, learning, and school-related practice. The journal accepts empirical papers that contribute to the knowledge base of teaching, learning, schooling, cross cultural psychology, school psychological services, applied educational psychology, educational research, assessment, new models of instruction, and other psychology-related international areas. The journal emphasizes the publication of outstanding research articles, but also considers literature reviews, and methodological or theoretical statements relating to any critical international school or educational issues. While we realize that most learning takes place between ages 0 and 21, IJSEP also focuses on adult learning, special education services with individuals of all ages, and learning and schooling across the life-span. Dr Garry Squires 20134

5. Issue 1 http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/usep20/current http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/usep20/current Five Essential Elements of Crisis Intervention for Communities and Schools When Responding to Technological Disasters by Michael L. Sulkowski & Philip J. Lazarus 17 Body Satisfaction and Eating Disorder Behaviors Among Immigrant Adolescents in North America by Joanne Magtoto, David Cox & Elizabeth Saewyc15 An Examination of the Factorial Invariance and Refinement of the Multidimensional School Anger Inventory for Five Pacific Rim Countries by Michael J. Furlong, Sukkyung You, Douglas C. Smith, Victoria Gonzalez, Peter Boman, Yoshiyuki Shimoda, Akiko Terasaka, Cesar Merino & María del Pilar Grazioso65 Learning to Read in Spanish: Contributions of Phonological Awareness, Orthographic Coding, and Rapid Naming by Amanda Clinton, Catherine Christo & David Shriberg10 Testing Multiple Goals Theory in an Asian Context: Filipino University Students' Motivation and Academic Achievement by Elmer D. Dela Rosa & Allan B. I. Bernardo7 Reliability of Bracken School Readiness Assessment, Third Edition Scores With Young Children in Mumbai, India by Mira B. Shah, Barbara A. Schaefer & Teresa P. Clark 7 Dr Garry Squires 20135

6. How to submit an article On line submission http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijsep http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijsep Up to 8 th July we had received exactly 100 manuscripts for review Year 1: Acceptance target was 60%-70% of papers Year 2: Acceptance target is 55%-60% of papers Dr Garry Squires 20136

7. Review process Blind peer review – we have 89 reviewers in the data base and welcome more. Paper uploaded – 1-2 days allocated to associate editor Matched to up to 6 potential reviewers – can take 5-10 days for them to accept Reviewers are expected to complete the review in 20 days Decisions and feedback sent to authors from editorial team: – Accepted – Minor corrections – Major corrections – Reject Dr Garry Squires 20137

8. Review feedback Reviewers have been thorough with lots of feedback to authors. All of the reviewers comments get included in the feedback Publication is in American English, production team will change spellings to match from other variants of English Dr Garry Squires 20138

9. Improving your chances of publication Our goal is to partner with you to develop and publish the best article possible based on your unique work. garry.squires@manchester.ac.uk Dr Garry Squires 20139