PSYCHOLOGY

Educational School Psychologists



Introduction3

Discussion4

Career Path: Domains of Competence4

Job Description and Analysis4

Academic Criteria6

Employment Outlook8

Salary Evaluation8

Regulations: Legal, Ethical, and Licensing9

Conclusion: Making A Difference10

Appendix13

Educational School Psychologists

Introduction

The selection of right career that reflects our interests, capitalize our strengths, accepts our weaknesses, and helps to identify the SMART short and long terms goals for us is extremely important. The scientist-practitioner model is the focus of school psychology programs that targets researchers and academicians for training and facilitation. This model helps in understanding needs of research methods and its implication in school settings to promote practices on empirical grounds (Fagan & Wise, 2007). Educational school psychologists work as practitioners to up lead their career path in one of the following areas:

Administration and Policy Development

Practitioner in School Psychology

School Psychology Faculty

The objective of this research paper is to communicate all the necessary aspects of building a career in Educational School Psychology (Tod et al., 2011). The latter two areas mentioned above are discussed to understand the needs, income data, specialization, regulation, and personal statement on this topic. The study of behavior of adolescents in schools and colleges falls under the umbrella of educational psychology. The understanding of classroom dynamics and research on teaching parameters is increasingly challenging for these psychologists to learn and preach to others. Many researches and bibliographic materials illuminates that there is no difference between School and Educational psychology. School and Education are corresponding words for each other and both fields are subjected to use for academic institutions, students, and educational development.

Discussion

The emotional, educational, behavioral, academic, and social needs of students and teachers are the subject concerns for educational school psychologists. They work with principals, teachers, counselors, therapists, administrators, and parents for the cognitive and social development of children's success in the overall educational setting. This section examines the career path, employment outlook, regulations, contextual challenges and applications for educational school psychologists.

Career Path: Domains of Competence

The changing trends and developing years of the twenty first century characterize initiatives for the public policies and landmark legislations that increased accountability for schools. The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) state agreement between law and school districts in 2001 stimulated accountability and need for assessment and interventions of professionals such as Educational and School Psychologists. The recent research and current statistics show that there is distortion of approximately 15,000 educational school psychologists from the year 2003 to 2020. This shortage of existing and future practitioners increased for concomitant and retirement shortages.

Job Description and Analysis

The responsibilities and job description (JD) of educational school psychologists extends beyond lending an ear to troublesome administrators, weakened students, and worried parents about academic efforts of a student. Administration is strengthening part of their job as they are involved in creating, maintaining, and retrieving academic reports and behavioral data. Other than employment in school settings, they also work as clinical practitioners as mental health agencies and residential treatment centers. The employment outlook and growth of this profession expects to incline nearly till 22% till the year ...