Looking back, 2016 proved to be another strong year for Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation. The number of total manuscript submissions rose from 2015. In our first year with expanded journal pages, 21 total articles were published, including outstanding theme issues on Multicultural Consultation (Volume 3) and Restorative Justice (Volume 4). The Multicultural Consultation theme issue was headed by former Associate Editor Janay Sander and the Restorative Justice theme issue was headed by former Associate Editor Samuel Song.
I thank both Janay and Sam for leading these theme issues, as well as all of the other guest editors and authors whose work appeared in JEPC in 2016. I also acknowledge the five outstanding current Associate Editors of JEPC: Jose Castillo, Amanda Clinton, Tracy Gershwin Mueller, Anisa N. Goforth, and Daniel S. Newman. I admit to being heavily biased, but there is no stronger group of Associate Editors anywhere. Individually and collectively, they work to make sure that every article is given a full and respectful review. I also rely on them for advice and discussion related to JEPC’s vision and future steps. I am so fortunate to work with them. I also was incredibly fortunate to work with two outstanding Editorial Assistants in 2016—Keeshawna Brooks and Vicky Karahalios. Both have worked with me since their first semester in graduate school and I consider myself so blessed to be able to partner with such capable and caring people.
As always, JEPC’s Editorial Board did an outstanding job in 2016. I thank you all so much for your thorough work. I particularly appreciate it when you provide comprehensive, critical, yet respectful feedback for a manuscript that needs a lot of work. There is never a reason to be mean-spirited in reviews and along with the Associate Editors you all set a professional, supportive tone that distinguishes JEPC.
Many thanks also to all who provided an ad-hoc review in late 2015 or in 2016. Ad-hoc reviewers during this time frame were: Jose Manuel Aguilar Parra, Josh Baker, Morgan Beidleman, Anne Biehl, Wayne Camara, Kristina K. Childs, Aaron Fischer, Matthew N. Gaertner, Peter Gladstone, Wendy Haight, Jeff Keltner, Youngsun Lee, JoAnne Malloy, Aimee Massafra, Arielle Mottes, Markeda L. Newell, Brandon Schultz, Karrie A. Shogren, Marisa Simoni, and Laurel Snider.
Finally, I wish to acknowledge three long-time contributors to JEPC who have retired from the board. David Barnett is a longtime board member who contributed numerous reviews as well as contributed four articles as an author, most recently in 2015. I always looked forward to and learned from his reviews. Terry Gutkin appeared in the second ever issue of JEPC in 1990 and was a regular contributor afterward, ultimately authoring ten articles. His most recent published effort in JEPC was as a guest editor in 2012 for a theme issue on Ecological Approaches to Mental Health and Educational Services for Children and Adolescents. At the time of this writing, his article from this theme issue is the fifth most downloaded article in the history of this journal. Terry was a longstanding Editorial Board member who also has served on this journal’s Advisory Board for many years. Finally, Ann Nevin published the first of her twelve articles to appear in JEPC in the very first issue of this journal. She is a longstanding Editorial Board member who also has served at different points as an Associate Editor and Advisory Board member for JEPC. Individually and collectively, the contributions of these three scholars to consultation research more generally and to this journal specifically have been immense. They are irreplaceable. I thank them so much for their service and wish them nothing but the best in retirement.