Increasing School-Based Mental Health Services with a "Grow Your Own" School Psychology Program

Autor/inn/en	Schmitz, Stephanie L.; Clopton, Kerri L.; Skaar, Nicole R.; Dredge, Stephanie; VanHorn, David
Titel	Increasing School-Based Mental Health Services with a "Grow Your Own" School Psychology Program
Quelle	In: Contemporary School Psychology, 26 (2022) 1, S.22-33 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Schmitz, Stephanie L.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2159-2020
DOI	10.1007/s40688-020-00348-z
Schlagwörter	School Health Services; Mental Health Programs; School Psychology; School Psychologists; Labor Market; Supply and Demand; Recruitment; Rural Areas; Counselor Training; Graduate Study; Specialization; Special Education; Rural Schools; Partnerships in Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schuleingangsuntersuchung; Schulpsychologie; School psychologist; Psychologists; School; Schools; Schulpsychologe; Schulpsychologin; Psychologe; Psychologin; Psychologen; Schule; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Bedarfsplanung; Recruiting; Rekrutierung; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Arbeitsteilige Spezialisierung; Special needs education; Sonderpädagogik; Sonderschulwesen; Rural areas; Schulen; Hochschulpartnerschaft
Abstract	There is a nationwide shortage of school psychologists, and while NASP has recommended ways to increase recruitment and retention, the research on recruiting and retaining school psychologists, especially in high-need areas, is limited. Teacher education researchers have begun to address teacher shortages through "grow your own" training programs, but the research on these programs is also limited. A team of university school psychology faculty and regional education agency administrators developed a "Grow Your Own" school psychologist re-specialization training program to support recruiting and retaining school psychologists in rural areas. It is difficult for rural education agencies to recruit young professionals to their area, but it may be possible to recruit professionals currently living in the area to school graduate training programs. The partnership between the university school psychology training program and the regional education agencies addresses the school psychology shortage in one Midwestern state by recruiting special education and related educational professionals to school psychology. A focus of this program is to place more mental health professionals (i.e., school psychologists) in rural schools, therefore addressing the deficiency of mental health services in these rural areas. The partnership and the program are described, as are opportunities and challenges that the team has experienced to date. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01