SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY IN CANADA: AN EVOLVING PROFESSION
Abstract
This inquiry focuses on (a) the character of school psychology services that are provided in this culturally complex society by 10 education autonomous provinces and two federally dependent territories, (b) problems of service delivery occasioned by unusual economic as well as diverse demographic and geographic conditions. (c) the diversity of training and accreditation standards that obtain across political jurisdictions, (d) aspects of the way this profession interacts with other psychology-based disciplines that serve public school systems, and (e) difficulties that face the practitioner that are generated by problems intrinsic to the profession as weil as to the society in which it is taking shape. RÉSUMÉ Cette étude porte (a) sur les services de psychologie scolaire offerts dans notre société culturellement complexe par dix provinces autonomes sur le plan de l'éducation et deux territoires tributaires du fédéral; (b) sur les problèmes posés par la présentation de ces services en raison d'une conjoncture économique inhabituelle et de conditions démographiques et géographiques diverses; (c) sur la diversité des normes de formation et d'accréditation en vigueur dans différentes juridictions politiques; (d) sur les façons dont cette profession interagit avec d'autres disciplines basées sur la psychologie que l'on retrouve dans les écoles publiques, et (e) sur les difficultés provenant de problèmes intrinsèques à la profession ainsi qu'à la société où ils se façonnent.Downloads
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1987-04-01
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Dumont, F. (1987). SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY IN CANADA: AN EVOLVING PROFESSION. McGill Journal of Education / Revue Des Sciences De l’éducation De McGill, 22(002). Retrieved from https://mje.mcgill.ca/article/view/7734
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