This form of advocacy is an excellent way to raise overall awareness of the incredible things we can
do as school psychologists.
Not exact matches
Mintz
does not refer at all to research by developmental
psychologists such
as Jay Belsky of London's Birkbeck College and Alan Sroufe of the University of Minnesota; nor
does he cite the huge, multicenter National Institute of Child Health studies, all of which suggest that more than 20 hours per week of child care beginning before the age of one correlates with a higher incidence of interpersonal difficulties by early grade
school.
Some even take it further and say they are nurses,
psychologists, chefs, etc. like they are
as specialized
as the people who spent years at
school / training and were hired from a competitive pool to
do those things (PR assistant is a new one lol).
As one drew closer to
psychologists, he said, the «clash of arms and the shoutings of the rival
schools» grew louder, because the competing viewpoints
did not even agree on basic facts and principles.
One solution is to provide mental health services in
schools,
as a company formed by two clinical
psychologists is now
doing in DC.
These needs don't even address other important initiatives the
school board members believe are a top priority such
as hiring more
school counselors, social workers, and
psychologists and expanding services for academically and intellectually gifted students.
Most people don't realize that traditional therapists, such
as psychologists and social workers, go to graduate
school to help individuals with mental health problems.
The selection for SPY is always a challenging one for the nomination committee,
as there are so many wonderful
school psychologists among us
doing incredible things for the students of New Hampshire.
And most
psychologists have leaned toward specialization in their own past practices, which also discounts their «expertise»
as a know - everything generalist and means that for the most part they are little better than laypersons — a few courses in graduate
school do not an expert make in substance abuse, domestic violence, parenting capacity (or even what constitutes «good parenting»), child sex abuse, family systems, psychometric testing, infant attachment, personality disorders, child development, breastfeeding, sibling relationships, child education, medical decision - making, communications, marital relations, and so forth.
«Many people who don't have children view their pets
as their children, and they consider their pets» needs in the same way others would consider how the
schools or playgrounds are in a particular neighborhood,» says Arlene Kagle, a
psychologist in a recent interview in the New York Times.