THE FUTURE OF SCHOOL-PSYCHOLOGY - PERSPECTIVES ON EFFECTIVE TRAINING

The need to reform our schools toward greater student success has been sounded across the country and in every community, school district, a nd school. In our own profession, the need for school reform and schoo l psychological reform has been evident for a long while. Yet, signifi cantly, the expected and needed role of the school psychologist in the 21st Century poses serious challenges to the current system of school psychology training. Although there has been significant progress in the development of training and credentialing standards in school psyc hology during the last half of the current century, many training and credentialing issues exist and re main unresolved, and some pose barri ers to the delivery of effective services to students, their families, and teachers. This article addresses some of these training challenge s by describing components of effective training programs, including c haracteristics of effective faculty, students, and training processes.