Concerns relating to the management of externalising and internalising behaviour are prevalent within UK educational policy and practice and represent a key domain for Educational Psychologist (EP) support. EP practice has been subject to change over time, following shifts in legislative approaches to managing behaviour in schools and changes to the contexts and systems within which EPs work, such as increased service trading. A systematic literature review (SLR) sought to represent EP behaviour practices within the existing literature. 12 papers, published between 2000-2017 were identified using a PRISMA framework and evaluated for methodological quality, appropriateness and relevance of focus. An empirical investigation, utilising the Research and Development in Organisations (RADIO) model within a single-case design, was also conducted within a north-west local authority educational psychology service. A focus group with 5 EPs and the Principal EP (PEP), and an interview with the PEP, were carried out and thematically analysed. The SLR identified a range of behavioural practices at individual, group and organisational levels, exemplifying the core functions of the EP role. Single and integrated psychological paradigms were applied, within relational and social constructionist approaches. The empirical investigation identified a range of behavioural practices, and underlying psychological paradigms, alongside ideas for future developments in behaviour service delivery and the possible facilitators and barriers to achieving this were considered. Reflections on the utility and experience of EP involvement in action research were also facilitated, with content analysis findings presented. Links to theory and practice, and implications for future research are considered, including empirical investigation of EP practice within local contexts. The application of psychology within local contexts and service development processes, are also considered. Finally, following an exploration of the concepts of evidence-based practice and practice-based evidence, and their implications for practitioner psychologists, a dissemination strategy for sharing findings with participants and the wider EP community is proposed.

The landscape of education and the students served in schools has changed over the last few decades and is becoming more diverse (National Center for Education Statistics, 2017). Methods of special education evaluation in schools are also changing to meet the needs of a dynamic population. Best practices for specific learning disability (SLD) identification recommend the use of effective evaluation methods that inform educational decisions. Many models of SLD identification have been proposed throughout the history of SLD classification. Though many school psychologists have relied on the discrepancy model of learning disability identification, many alternative evaluation methods are coming into popularity. Best practices for SLD identification are changing to meet the needs of a culturally and linguistically diverse student population. Experts in administering culturally appropriate assessments for English language learners (ELLs) recommend that the areas of culture, language, and schooling be examined in order to ensure a valid and fair evaluation for this population (U.S. Department of Education, 2000). This study specifically examined current assessment practices of Utah school psychologists when assessing ELLs for learning disabilities by examining the most essential components of language proficiency, acculturation, academic skills, and intellectual functioning. This study additionally examined the barriers and recommendations of school psychologists when assessing ELLs. A sample of 84 Utah school psychologists completed a survey about assessment practices as part of assessing an ELL for a suspected SLD. Findings from this study indicate school psychologists' responses align with the guiding principles that surround the assessment of ELLs. Participants indicated the importance of standardized measurements when assessing all areas except acculturation. Additionally, participants identified time, lack of resources, incomplete assessment instruments, and limited training and competency as major barriers for professionals working with ELLs. Results from this study can be used to inform and improve practice based on the respondents' recommendations, which included more resources allocated to acculturation assessment and more training from school districts and university training programs in the areas of ELL assessment.

Aim of this thesis is to look at the problematics of function of the school psychologist on primary school and show how the school psychologist get on with individual teachers. School psychology, pedagogic psychology and their history will be explained in the theoretical part of the thesis. Then we look at the history of function of the school psychologist on primary school in the Czech republic and Slovakia. We look at its cooperation with other entities - parents, students or other institions. Practical part of this thesis consist of interview with school psychologists and teachers. The aim is to analyse relations between them and determine whether is a school psychologist respected figure.

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Children and adolescents transitioning from partial hospitalization programs-to-schools have both mental health and educational needs. As the leading mental health experts in schools, school psychologists are uniquely suited to address the needs of these students. However, their role in this transition process has yet to be explored. This study begins to fill the gap in the empirical literature by investigating the actual role and function of school psychologists in partial hospitalization program-to-school transitions, the perceived barriers to successful transitions, and the school psychologist characteristics that predict involvement in the transition process. In addition, school psychologists' perceptions of the sufficiency of their training and the effectiveness of their current transition procedures were explored. Seventy-one school psychologists practicing around the country who had at least one student on their caseload attend a partial hospitalization program during the previous two years participated in an anonymous, internet-based survey. Results indicate that school psychologists had high levels of involvement in partial hospitalization program-to-school transitions, most frequently engaging in activities related to special education services (i.e., IEP meetings, psychoeducational assessments) and consultation with teachers. School psychologists with smaller caseloads had significantly higher levels of involvement than those with larger caseloads. The strongest barrier to successful transitions was insufficient communication among schools and partial hospitalization programs. School psychologists who served on a team specifically designed to address the needs of students transitioning from a hospital-to-school setting perceived their procedures to be more effective than non-team members. Overall, school psychologists perceived their training to transition students from partial hospitalization programs-to-school to be moderately sufficient; however, they perceived their current procedures to be moderately ineffective. Recommendations to improve the effectiveness of partial hospitalization program-to-school transitions are provided. / School Psychology

Ο σκοπός της παρούσας έρευνας ήταν η διερεύνηση των απόψεων Ελλήνων εκπαιδευτικών και φοιτητών - υποψηφίων εκπαιδευτικών ως προς 1) τις δραστηριότητες, που θεωρούν ότι αντιστοιχούν στο ρόλο του ΣΨ, 2) τη σημασία, που αποδίδουν σε 13 δραστηριότητες του ΣΨ, 3) την επιθυμητή μορφή συνεργασίας ΣΨ- εκπαιδευτικών, 4) το πόσο αναγκαία, θεωρούν, την παρέμβαση του ΣΨ για τη διαχείριση συγκεκριμένων προβλημάτων, των μαθητών και της σχολικής κοινότητας, εν γένει, 5) το χώρο των συναντήσεων ΣΨ - εκπαιδευτικών και 6) το χρόνο παραμονής του ΣΨ στο σχολείο. Το δείγμα της έρευνας αποτέλεσαν 136 εκπαιδευτικοί πρωτοβάθμιας και δευτεροβάθμιας εκπαίδευσης σχολείων του Νομού Αχαΐας και 136 φοιτητές του Τμήματος Επιστημών της Εκπαίδευσης και της Αγωγής στην Προσχολική Ηλικία του Πανεπιστημίου Πατρών. Οι συμμετέχοντες συμπλήρωσαν αυτοσχέδια ερωτηματολόγια. Τα αποτελέσματα έδειξαν, ότι και οι εκπαιδευτικοί και οι φοιτητές αναγνωρίζουν τις συμβουλευτικές υπηρεσίες του ΣΨ, τη συνεργασία ΣΨ και εκπαιδευτικών εντός του σχολικού χώρου, για 2-3 ημέρες ανά εβδομάδα, διαχειριζόμενος κυρίως συναισθηματικά προβλήματα και προβλήματα συμπεριφοράς των μαθητών. Η έρευνα μας συμβάλλει στην προώθηση των αναγκαίων νομοθετικών ρυθμίσεων για το ρόλο του σχολικού ψυχολόγου μέσα στη δημόσια ελληνική εκπαίδευση. / The purpose of the present survey was the investigation of teachers’ and student teachers’ perceptions of: 1) the actual activities, that school psychologist, have, 2) the importance they attribute to 13 activities of the school psychologist, 3) the desired type of cooperation between SP (school psychologist) and teachers, 4) the necessity of the intervention of SP in a series of problems, concerning students and the whole school community 5) the desired place for meetings between SP and teachers and 6) the preferred time of school psychologist working per week at school. The sample of the study was consisted of 136 teachers at elementary and secondary schools of Achaia and 136 student teachers of University of Patras. The participants completed self-rated questionnaires. The findings showed that both teachers and student teachers acknowledge the counseling services of SP, the cooperation of teachers and SP within the school settings, for 2-3 days per week, in dealing mainly with students’ emotional and behavioral problems. Our study contributes to the promotion of the necessary legislative regulations of the role of school psychologist in the Greek public education.

This diploma thesis deals with influence of Feuerstein's method of Instrumental Enrichment on didactics of elementary school teacher. The Instrumental Enrichment method is a very sophisticated strategy for developing individual cognitive structures. A person who helps develop cognitive structures acts as a mediator. These mediators are most often parents or teachers. So, according to Feuerstein, the teacher is not merely a knowledge builder, but he tries to develop his / her thinking and teaching potential. The aim of my work is to deepen the general knowledge of the influence of this method on teachers' didactics from the perspective of those teachers who work with it. To clarify in which areas didactics teachers perceive the impact of this method and how concrete changes are reflected. The theoretical part of the thesis introduces the author of the method, Professor Reuven Feuerstein, and the theoretical starting points from which his method is based. In addition, Feuerstein's Instrumental Enrichment Program is introduced, which is an application of mediated learning to pedagogical practice. It further defines the concept of didactics. The last part deals with available research on the influence of the method on teachers' didactics. In the empirical part, which is based on qualitative research...

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:27:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Adinete Sousa Costa.pdf: 319775 bytes, checksum: c1bd612fcd5d5228026a7c30caf12b05 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005-12-15 / Considering that there have been many studies and much discussion about the School Psychologist s preventive intervention, this work proposes, not only to elucidate some questions about that professional s performance, but also to discuss a project of preventive intervention that has as its primordial goal the students healthy development promotion. The research s theoretical basis has been delineated based on four axes of discussion: the first consider some important aspects of the school psychologist s education and performance in Brazil; the second bring some theoretical bases in the concept of health and prevention, besides evidencing the school s role in health s promotion; the third explain briefly the Ecological Approach, bringing some of its basic concepts; in for end, the history and goals of V?o da ?guia: prevenindo problemas s?cioemocionais e promovendo sa?de Project, coordinated by Professor Doctor Raquel Souza Lobo Guzzo, will be presented. It is important to consider that this proposal is inserted in the major project Do risco ? prote??o: uma interven??o preventiva na comunidade . Thus, the present research has as general goal the evaluation of a proposal of preventive intervention in Psychology in the education context, named V?o da ?guia Project, developed in a municipal day care center located in East Campinas. The piece of work adopts as its methodology the qualitative research that contain two sources of collecting data: psychologist Field Daily and the semi-structured Interview with the school educators. Through data collection, a positive assessment of this project has been observed in the educators view that ponders the importance of an interdisciplinary work when the children s health development is searched and considers important the work with parents. / Considerando que muito se tem pesquisado e discutido a respeito da interven??o preventiva do Psic?logo Escolar, este trabalho se prop?e n?o apenas a elucidar algumas quest?es sobre a atua??o deste profissional, mas, tamb?m, a discutir um projeto de interven??o preventiva que tem como objetivo primordial promover o desenvolvimento saud?vel dos alunos. O embasamento te?rico da pesquisa est? delineado com base em quatro eixos de discuss?o: o primeiro eixo considera alguns aspectos importantes sobre a forma??o e atua??o do psic?logo escolar no Brasil; o segundo traz alguns fundamentos te?ricos a respeito do conceito de sa?de e preven??o, al?m de evidenciar o papel da escola na promo??o da sa?de; o terceiro faz uma breve explana??o sobre a Abordagem Ecol?gica trazendo alguns conceitos b?sicos; e, por ?ltimo, s?o apresentados a hist?ria e os objetivos do projeto V?o da ?guia: prevenindo problemas s?cio-emocionais e promovendo sa?de , coordenado pela Prof?. Dr? Raquel Souza Lobo Guzzo. ? importante considerar que esta proposta encontra-se inserida no projeto maior Do risco ? Prote??o: uma interven??o preventiva na comunidade . Assim, a presente pesquisa tem como objetivo geral avaliar uma proposta de interven??o preventiva em Psicologia no contexto educativo, denominado projeto V?o da ?guia , desenvolvida em uma creche municipal situada na regi?o Leste da cidade de Campinas. O trabalho adota como metodologia a pesquisa qualitativa, tendo, no caso, duas fontes de coletas de dados: os di?rios de campo da psic?loga e a entrevista semi-estruturada com os educadores da escola. Por meio da coleta destes dados, foi observada uma avalia??o positiva deste projeto na vis?o dos educadores, considerando a import?ncia de um trabalho interdisciplinar quando se busca o desenvolvimento saud?vel das crian?as, al?m de considerarem importante o trabalho com os pais.

Latest research on the mental health status of children indicates that schools are key providers of mental health services (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2003). The push for school mental health services has only increased as stakeholders have begun to recognize the significance of sound mental health as an essential part of academic success (Adelman & Taylor, 2002). However, while schools are recognized as playing an important role in the delivery of mental health services, it is not well understood about the types of mental health services provided, qualifications of providers, and the link to student outcomes (United States Department of Health and Human Services, 2003). The present study examined Florida school mental health service providers' perceptions about the types of mental health services provided in schools and school mental health service providers' qualifications to provide such services. Additionally, the study investigated the agreement about providers' qualifications to provide mental health services between providers, supervisors, and directors. Finally, this study investigated the perceptions of providers regarding the impact of mental health services on student outcomes. Results revealed that school mental health service providers considered several services, such as family counseling and mental health consultation, to be school mental health services. Services typically not viewed as mental health services were assessments, consultation improving academic concerns, early-intervention, universal screenings, and specialized intervention. School psychologists were the only mental health professional to receive a unanimous agreement from school mental health providers that they were most qualified of the three professionals to deliver a service (e.g., assessment). Additionally, with the exception of school psychologists, there was no consistency reported between administrators and school mental health service providers about providers' qualifications to deliver services. The following variables moderated perceptions about the qualifications of school mental health service providers: school level, SES status of school, and degree level. Lastly, school level and SES status of the school did not moderate perceptions about the impact of mental health services on academic and behavioral outcomes.

My thesis deals with cooperation between school psychologists and teachers. The paper focuses on activities for teachers that are created by school psychologists. The purpose of this study is to look at approach of the school psychologists towards implementation of the activities and to describe attitudes and practices of the school psychologists. Theoretical part consists of the following - history of the school psychology, definition of the school psychology, related legal provisions in the Czech Republic, job description and difficulties that are described by various studies. The paper also deals with teaching, the profession that is often related with stress and burnout syndrome. At the end of the theoretical part several activities for teachers are discussed along with tricky relationship between teachers and school psychologists. Empirical part of the thesis includes results of research consisting of 13 interviews with school psychologists. The interviews are analysed by thematic analysis. The results show that school psychologists create mainly group sessions focused on sharing experiences and thoughts. They also create educational workshops or even relaxation training. During pandemic they send emails of support to the teachers. By creating these activities, the school psychologists offer...