Advocating for Mental Health Supports in Schools

Dockweiler, Katherine A.

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“…Recruitment efforts should focus on awareness campaigns for middle and high school students to ensure that they are able to recognize the field of school psychology. Additional efforts need to focus on those students in undergraduate institutions, which recommend strategic recruitment for those students studying nursing, sociology, biology, and other similar majors (Dockweiler, 2023). One such effort, a large-scale attempt to grow the profession of school psychology, was conducted through the NASP Exposure Project (NASP-EP; National Association of School Psychologists, n.d.).…”

Section: Factors Affecting Program Choicementioning

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“…Once exposure interventions are successful, prospective students may begin to apply for graduate school. This is the point at which universities begin their formal recruitment efforts to understand what activities and program attributes are most likely to attract students to their program (Dockweiler, 2023). In other words, once students have decided to pursue a career in school psychology, programs must then actively recruit students to attend their program.…”

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“…First, prospective students must know about the field of school psychology and what it entails. The active recruitment, training, and educator retention theory (Dockweiler, 2023) articulated several targets for those looking to increase the number of students in the school psychology pipeline. Recruitment efforts should focus on awareness campaigns for middle and high school students to ensure that they are able to recognize the field of school psychology.…”

Section: School Psychology Recruitmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Reputable and affordable programs with a strong commitment to diversity: Factors influencing school psychology student admission decisions.

Aspiranti,

Hulac,

Hammer

et al. 2024

School Psychology

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A current issue in the field of school psychology is the extreme shortage of school psychologists, and this is likely to persist in the future. Effective recruitment into school psychology programs is one of the most important strategies to increase the number of school psychologists. Within the present study, researchers created the Graduate Enrollment Admissions Rating Scale (GEARS), a survey measuring several different factors that school psychology students consider when applying to graduate programs, to determine what factors contributed to school psychology students' choice of program. The GEARS was sent via email to current school psychology graduate students. Overall, current students rated program quality, including faculty friendliness, as the most important factor influencing their decision. Second, considerations reflecting the program cost were influential. Diversity issues were the third most important factor in students choosing their school psychology programs. Costs and research/teaching opportunities were more important in the recruitment of doctoral students than specialist students, but specialist students valued convenience of a program more than doctoral students. Results of this study suggest that faculty members in charge of recruiting need to consider ways to manage tuition costs, develop relationships with future students, and strive toward high-quality programs as the best ways to increase the likelihood that students will attend their university. Impact and ImplicationsA survey of school psychology graduate students examined factors that influenced their choice of a school psychology program. Graduate students are most likely to consider quality, cost, and a commitment to diversity when choosing a school psychology program. Doctoral students are more likely to rank costs and research/teaching opportunities as more important than specialist students, while specialist-level students are more likely to value convenience.

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Section: School Psychology Recruitmentmentioning

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Reputable and affordable programs with a strong commitment to diversity: Factors influencing school psychology student admission decisions.

Aspiranti,

Hulac,

Hammer

et al. 2024

School Psychology

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“…Flexible, yet concrete, methods are needed to establish short‐ and long‐term solutions to the phenomenon and to provide a framework for state and local education agencies and partner organizations to chart their paths and remain on course. In response to this need, the Active Recruitment, Training, and Educator Retention to serve our Youth (ARTERY) Pipeline Framework was created (Clark & Dockweiler, 2019; Dockweiler, 2023).…”

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“…Additional ways to engage areStates and districts will continue to grapple with identifying, reporting, and acting on shortages without a workforce development framework to assist with consistency efforts. Adopting a model such as the ARTERY Pipeline Framework(Clark & Dockweiler, 2019;Dockweiler, 2023) can help offer statutory and regulatory policy solutions to support state efforts to systematically address awareness and school psychology workforce shortages. State policy makers can be a tremendous resource and voice for state policy change.…”

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School psychology: Increasing awareness, enhancing policies, and reducing shortages

Dockweiler,

Kaufman

2024

Psychology in the Schools

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This exploratory mixed methods study investigates the school psychology workforce shortage phenomenon and underlying contributing factors. The development of an Education Specialist school psychology program in the middle of the COVID‐19 pandemic prompted the authors to explore variables impacting awareness of the school psychology profession. State policies were reviewed to identify how many states have adopted the nationally recommended 1:500 ratio for school psychologists. Additionally, undergraduate and postbaccalaureate student knowledge of the work of school‐based mental health professionals, specifically school psychologists, was surveyed. Finally, the authors explore the need for new action frameworks to achieve this awareness and to promote workforce policy development. Based on findings, three key points for practitioners are the need to promote the adoption of policies that align with the 1:500 recommended ratio for school psychologists, increase awareness of the profession with preservice and in‐service educators, and create coordinated training pathways and career opportunities for individuals to become school psychologists.

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Keep it simple: Information sources students use when choosing school psychology programs

Aspiranti,

Hulac,

Blake

2024

Psychology in the Schools

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Those tasked with recruiting students to school psychology programs have limited resources. Yet, they need to identify which sources of information prospective students will use to inform their choice of school psychology programs. A survey was developed to measure which information sources school psychology students consider when applying to graduate programs and to determine which demographic factors contribute to the types of information used. The survey was administered via email and completed by 406 current school psychology students. An exploratory factor analysis found three factors related to General Information, Program Details, and Student Outreach. Overall, students highlighted the importance of general information that is available on the website. Student outreach efforts were less preferred, though students did value the opportunities to talk with faculty members such as the program coordinator. Effects of race, gender, first‐generation status, and in‐state status were not significantly related to student information preferences. Results suggest that programs should consider creating high‐quality program, departmental, and university websites as the most effective way to provide information to prospective students.

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Advocating for Mental Health Supports in Schools

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Reputable and affordable programs with a strong commitment to diversity: Factors influencing school psychology student admission decisions.

Reputable and affordable programs with a strong commitment to diversity: Factors influencing school psychology student admission decisions.

School psychology: Increasing awareness, enhancing policies, and reducing shortages

Keep it simple: Information sources students use when choosing school psychology programs

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