A school psychologist shares tips on when to seek assessment for suspected learning issues and how to help elementary school students with reading.
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Not enough time is being set aside for school counselors and psychologists to help students work on mental health issues, a professor of school psychology says.
School violence prevention requires professionals – counselors, psychologists and social workers – who know how to create an emotionally safe environment. Those staffers are in very short supply.
Schoolteachers routinely report feeling ill-prepared to guide their students through difficult conversations about high-profile violent events.
We investigated the initiatives schools around the world took to help support and maintain the well-being of their students and staff. We pulled out seven things that made a difference.
A shortage of school psychologists will pose serious problems as children return to school with higher levels of stress and anxiety, two experts on student mental health say.
It’s worth recapping what’s known about how Australia’s chaplaincy program has operated so far, and what alternatives exist.
Addressing children’s and youth’s needs requires the expertise and support of educational assistants, school psychologists and all workers who collaborate to build caring school communities.
Providing teachers with training in crisis intervention is one short-term strategy to help them meet the increasingly complex needs of students.
Children’s perspectives on math develop at a very young age and have longstanding effects, so it matters that families and teachers promote positive engagement with math skills.
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Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Connecticut
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Associate Professor of School Psychology, Northeastern University
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Professor, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor, Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary
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Director, Field Experience (Community-Based), Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary
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Associate Professor in Education, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor of School Psychology, University of Florida
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Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, Florida International University
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PhD student, School and Applied Child Psychology, University of Calgary
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Senior lecturer, Monash University
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Professor, School of Early Childhood & Inclusive Education, Queensland University of Technology
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Research associate, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology, Boston University
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Psychologist & Assistant Director, Mary J. Wright Child and Youth Development Clinic, Western University
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Associate Professor of Special Education, Boston University