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- Title
Interpreting Scientist-Practitioner Model into Specialist Level School Psychology Training.
- Authors
Castro-Villarreal, Felicia; Rodriguez, Billie Jo; Sullivan, Jeremy; Guerra, Norma; Garza, Sofia; Harris, Elise Marie
- Abstract
Federal education statutes and changes in the professional landscape increasingly necessitate reliance on scient ific evidence when making educational decisions. This changing zeitgeist prompts the need for closer adherence to the Scientist-Practitioner (S-P) model in school psychology specialist level training. Although the need to reconnect with scientific roots is undeniable, the increasing demands of core clinical training make it difficult to equate training in science with practice. This paper describes a model for deliberately infusing research experience into specialist level training through coursework, research teams, and practicum. We highlight the challenges associated with integrating science with practice in specialist level training and illustrate the need to explicitly and systematically conceptualize theory, research, and practice as reciprocal. We provide sample course requirements and practicum activities and discuss implications for training and practice.
- Publication
Trainers' Forum, 2015, Vol 33, Issue 2, p7
- ISSN
0277-2574
- Publication type
Article