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Title: A Career in School Psychology


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A Career in School Psychology
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School Psychologists...
  • Understand how schools work and how children
    learn
  • Provide easily accessible, cost-effective mental
    health services to children
  • Promote positive mental health and a safe and
    effective learning environment

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Who are we?
  • Have specialized training in both PSYCHOLOGY and
    EDUCATION

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What do we do?
  • Consultation
  • Assessment
  • Intervention
  • Prevention
  • Education
  • Research Planning

5
School Counselor vs. School Psychologist
  • Counselor work with total school population
  • Family/academic problems
  • Career planning
  • College prep
  • Scheduling
  • May run groups

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  • School Psychologist
  • Usually funded via special ed monies
  • Work with at-risk and kids with disabilities
  • Assessment, consultation, direct interventions
  • More likely to have training in behavior
    analysis, mental health diagnosis, research
    methods

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What about the training?
  • Ed.S. degree - minimally, need 2 yrs of
    coursework (60 hrs) plus a 3rd year of internship

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How much will I get paid?
  • From 2004-2005 National Survey
  • 180 day contract 56,262
  • 200 day contract 62,513
  • 220 day contract 68,764
  • (50 of contracts are for 180-190 days 33 of
    contracts for 200 days or more)

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Issues that impact the educational and
psychosocial needs of children include...
  • Learning styles and disabilities
  • School violence
  • Divorce
  • Bullying
  • Mental health issues
  • Motivational issues
  • Suicide prevention
  • Attention disorders

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Coursework includes...
  • Normal and abnormal child and adolescent
    development
  • School organizational systems
  • Learning theory
  • Counseling theories
  • Statistics
  • Applied Behavior Analysis
  • Psychological and psychoeducational assessment

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Consultation...
  • give alternatives to educators and parents about
    problems in learning and behavior
  • help others understand child development
  • strengthen working relationships between
    educators, parents, and community services
  • design and develop procedures for preventing
    disorders, promoting mental health and learning,
    and improving educational systems
  • provide inservice/training to educators and
    parents

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Assessment - using a wide variety of techniques
at an individual, group, and systems level to
evaluate
  • Academic skills
  • Learning aptitudes
  • Personality and emotional development
  • Social skills
  • Behavioral analysis
  • Learning environments and school climate
  • Eligibility for special education

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Intervention...
  • Work face to face with teachers, children, and
    families
  • Help solve conflicts and problems in learning and
    adjustment
  • Help enhance learning opportunities and
    experiences for all children
  • Provide psychological counseling for children and
    families
  • Help families and schools deal with immediate
    crises as well as ongoing issues such as grief or
    loss
  • Provide information to enhance parenting skills
    and techniques

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Prevention...
  • Identify potential learning difficulties
  • design programs for children at risk of failure
  • provide parents and teachers with skills to cope
    with disruptive behavior
  • help foster tolerance and appreciation of
    diversity
  • develop school wide initiatives to make schools
    safer and more effective

15
Education...
  • Develop programs on topics such as
  • Teaching and learning strategies
  • Classroom management techniques
  • Working with students who have disabilities or
    unusual talents
  • Substance abuse
  • Crisis management

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Research and Planning...
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of academic programs,
    behavior management systems, and other services
  • Generate new knowledge about learning and
    behavior
  • Contribute to planning and evaluating school-wide
    reform and restructuring
  • Stay abreast of current trends in psychology and
    education to share with educators and parents

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Health Care Provision...
  • Collaborate with school and community-based
    personnel to provide a comprehensive model of
    school-linked health services
  • Work with children and families to provide
    integrated community services focusing on
    psychosocial wellness and health-related issues
  • Developing partnerships with parents and teachers
    to create healthy school environments

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Advocacy...
  • Appropriate educational placements
  • Ensuring that the needs and rights of the
    students are appropriately addressed
  • NASP www.nasponline.org
  • FASP www.fasp.org
  • Other community services/programs

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School Psychologists are employed in...
  • Public school settings
  • Private practice
  • Private schools
  • Colleges or Universities
  • Hospitals
  • Clinics
  • Institutional/ residential settings

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Training Programs in School Psychology
  • Barry University (Miami) www.barry.edu
  • Florida AM University (Tallahassee)
    www.famu.edu.acad/colleges
  • Florida International University (Miami)
    www.fiu.edu/edpsy/sch_psychhome.htm
  • Florida State University (Tallahassee)
    www.fsu.edu/coe/departments/hss/schoolpsy.html
  • Nova Southeastern University (Ft. Lauderdale)
    www.cps.nova.edu
  • University of Central Florida (Orlando)
    www.graduate.ucf.edu
  • University of Florida (Gainesville)
    http//nerp,nerdc.ufl.edu/founded/handbk2.htm
  • University of South Florida (Tampa)
    www.coedu.usf.edu/deptpsysoc/psych/

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For More Information About FSUs Program
  • http//www.epls.fsu.edu/schoolpsych/index.htm
  • Dr. Angel Canto acanto_at_fsu.edu
  • Dr. France Prevatt fprevatt_at_coe.fsu.edu

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For More Information on School Psychology
  • NASP www.nasponline.org
  • FASP www.fasp.org
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