A Practical Guide to Building Professional Competencies in School Psychology

✍ Scribed by Timothy M. Lionetti, Edward P. Snyder (auth.), Timothy M. Lionetti, Edward P. Snyder, Ray W. Christner (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 291
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Designed as a research-based yet matter-of-fact guide for beginning and future scientist-practitioners, A Practical Guide to Building Professional Competencies in School Psychology skillfully augments the reader’s training, supervision, and experience by providing a framework for honing essential skills in the field. This reader-friendly, evidence-based text encourages the continuing development of expertise in communication and collaborative skills, diversity awareness, technical knowledge, and other domains critical to building and maintaining an ethical, meaningful practice.

Each chapter in this must-have volume examines a core area of expertise in depth, and provides checklists (linked to competencies set out in NASP’s Blueprint III) and the Development and Enhancement of Competencies Assessment Form are included to enable readers to gain a more complete understanding of their professional strengths and needs.

The skill sets covered include:

• Developing cross-cultural competencies.
• Evaluating students with emotional and behavioral problems.
• Assessing student skills using a variety of approaches.
• Preventing and intervening in crisis situations.
• Consulting with families, colleagues, and the community.
• Facilitating mental health services in the school setting.

A Practical Guide to Building Professional Competencies in School Psychology provides an invaluable set of professional development tools for new practitioners and graduate students in school psychology.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Developing and Enhancing Competencies in the Practice of School Psychology....Pages 1-11
Applying Law and Ethics in Professional Practice....Pages 13-33
Building Competency in Cross-Cultural School Psychology....Pages 35-49
Managing Your Professional Practice as a School Psychologist....Pages 51-67
Consulting with Families, Schools, and Communities....Pages 69-81
Assessing Students’ Skills Using a Nontraditional Approach....Pages 83-99
Assessing Student Skills Using Process-Oriented Approaches....Pages 101-119
Evaluating Students with Emotional and Behavioral Concerns....Pages 121-139
Beyond Unproven Trends: Critically Evaluating School-Wide Programs....Pages 141-154
Advocating for Effective Instruction: School Psychologists as an Instructional Leader....Pages 155-173
Facilitating Mental Health Services in Schools: Universal, Selected, and Targeted Interventions....Pages 175-191
Preventing and Intervening in Crisis Situations....Pages 193-207
Developing Competent Written and Oral Communication....Pages 209-225
Using Advancing Technologies in the Practice of School Psychology....Pages 227-244
Making a Career of School Psychology....Pages 245-262
Monitoring Professional Competence in School Psychology....Pages 263-269
Back Matter....Pages 271-276

✦ Subjects

Child and School Psychology; Education (general)