Essays on School Psychologist

Field Experience: A School Psychologist Interview

I interviewed a licensed school psychologist, which told me a few interesting things useful for me and my future professional practice. A psychologist plays a special role in special education working with the client because he represents a person with strong experience and views. In this sense, people need help in order to set goals in business and work, and in relationships. Unfortunately, they begin to take care of themselves only when the situation becomes critical. Thus, a psychologist has to consider consciously what happens in relationships and family, and resolve problems of people with special needs. A psychologisthas ...

While Lightner Witmer has been largely credited with the conceptualization and creation of a separate field of study for school psychology (D’Amato et al., 2011), it has it’s true roots, in many ways, in the creation of the IQ test. The IQ test was pioneered by Alfred Binet who was specifically interested in the standards of the normal mind. Today, the Binet-Simon scale, first generated in 1905, is still used in schools to determine a child’s overall ability to perform certain tasks (Binet & Simon, 1905). Perhaps more significantly, however, it was significant that Binet recognized that ...

Both of my careers of interest involve psychological counseling. One would be serving as a school psychologist, and the other would be working in private practice as a psychologist. I am not interested in having the ability to prescribe medicines for my clients; although I realize that there are some mental conditions that are best remedies using prescriptions, in general I feel that these sorts of medicines are overprescribed, and I would prefer to treat patients through other means. For both of these positions, I would need to finish a B.S. in psychology and gain licensure, and to gain long-term stability in ...