School psychology trainers' identification of current stressors in the work lives of urban practitioners. A comparison study
✍ Scribed by Eileen Kaplan; Jerry Wishner
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 26 KB
- Volume
- 36
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0033-3085
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✦ Synopsis
The focus of this study is to investigate school psychology trainers' identification of current stressors in the work lives of practitioners. Surveys rating 40 stressors on a Likert-type scale were completed by 161 school psychology graduate faculty, members of the School Psychology Educators Council of New York State. Survey results were compared to the job-related stressors identified by New York City Psychologists using an almost identical questionnaire. While there appears to be general agreement between faculty trainers and practitioners on the identification and relative ranking of work-related stress, the faculty trainers consider those events to be more stressful than do the practitioners. Faculty's recognition of the environmental forces that negatively impact upon the experience of school psychologists should provide impetus for the development of graduate programs that address stress prevention and/or coping strategies.