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Children’s Rights, School Psychology, and Well-Being Assessments

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  • Xu Jiang
  • Hanita Kosher
  • Asher Ben-Arieh
  • E. Huebner

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This paper addresses interrelationships among the notions of children’s rights, school psychological services, and child well-being assessments. Increasing attention has been paid in recent years to the notions of children’s rights, as best expressed in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). In the current paper, we discuss the relevance of the emerging conceptions of children’s rights to the school context. We argue that given the centrality of schooling to children’s lives, school psychologists, who are serving in the role of child advocates, are in a unique position to contribute to integrating the children’s rights movement and educational progress. Situated within the context of the CRC and the practice of school psychology, we further discuss how advances in child well-being assessment can inform the implementation and evaluation of CRC principles and related policies. We propose that the use of evidence-based, developmentally appropriate objective and subjective measures of well-being should contribute a key component to meaningful assessments of the status of children’s rights and well-being. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014

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  • Xu Jiang & Hanita Kosher & Asher Ben-Arieh & E. Huebner, 2014. "Children’s Rights, School Psychology, and Well-Being Assessments," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 117(1), pages 179-193, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:soinre:v:117:y:2014:i:1:p:179-193
    DOI: 10.1007/s11205-013-0343-6
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