The Organizational Origins of Public School Psychology

Slater, Robert

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“…The first documented child study facility in a school system was the Department of Scientific Pedagogy and Child Study, which was developed by the Chicago Board of Education in 1899 (Slater, 1980). It was during this period that…”

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“…After leaving the Institute for Juvenile Research, Beckham began a long tenure of service, from 1935 until his death in 1964, as a school psychologist for the Chicago Public Schools. The first documented child study facility in a school system was the Department of Scientific Pedagogy and Child Study, which was developed by the Chicago Board of Education in 1899 (Slater, 1980). It was during this period that…”

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Albert Sidney Beckham: The First African American School Psychologist

Graves

2009

School Psychology International

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Although the field of school psychology has presented a history of its origins (see Benjamin and Baker, 2004;Fagan and Wise, 2007;Merrell et al., 2006 for a review of the history of school psychology), individuals of non-European American descent have largely been ignored by the school psychological establishment. Specifically, in the widely circulated and National Association of School Psychologists published introductory text, School Psychology Past, Present, and Future (Fagan and Wise, 2007) background information is provided on individuals deemed to be important contributors to the development of school psychology (i.e Goddard, Hollingworth, Schmitt). In this text, there are no non-White individuals presented. This statement also holds true for the widely circulated Merrell et al. (2006) introductory school psychology text. Finally, one would expect to find a broad and diverse array of contributors to the field of school psychology in the Historical Encyclopedia of School Psychology (Fagan and Warden, 1996), but 5 School Psychology International

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Albert Sidney Beckham: The First African American School Psychologist

Graves

2009

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“…She was temporarily assigned to the historic Chicago Public School's Bureau of Child Study (BCS) where she worked with a variety of special service providers, including school psychologists, on a number of projects. Established in 1899 as the Department of Scientific Pedagogy and Child Study, the BCS is the first instance in the United States of school district based psychological services; an early formal connection of psychology to schooling (Slater, 1980). In order to be officially assigned to the BCS, Frances was required to complete post-doctoral work in clinical psychology.…”

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Frances Mullen

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Wells

1999

School Psychology International

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“…Frances Mullen (1981), a longtime employee of the bureau, indicated that "the use of physical measures (weight, bodily dimensions, lung capacity, strength, ossification of the wrist, et al) was a basic tool of the Child Study movement" (p. 107). Slater's (1980) analysis of the Chicago department identifies a "symbiotic association" between psychology and education. Noting that the "new" psychology required laboratories, subjects, and perhaps a "developmental, evolutionary or 'genetic' perspective," urban schools provided convenient access to large numbers of subjects, bureaucratically segmented for developmental studies, and "school performance could be used as a correlate of physical characteristics ... as the dependent variable for the host of independent variables that the new physiological psychology made possible" (pp.…”

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Compulsory schooling, child study, clinical psychology, and special education: Origins of school psychology.

Fagan¹

1992

American Psychologist

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The historical development of school psychology is discussed in the context of circumstances and individuals significant to its origins. The contributions of Witmer's clinical psychology and Hall's child study demonstrate how early forms of school psychology evolved from their conceptualizations. Even though the specialty did not achieve a stable national identity until the second half of the 20th century, the provision of psychological services in schools is among the earliest fields of applied psychology and has distinct connections to Witmer and Hall.

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The Organizational Origins of Public School Psychology

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Albert Sidney Beckham: The First African American School Psychologist

Albert Sidney Beckham: The First African American School Psychologist

Frances Mullen

Compulsory schooling, child study, clinical psychology, and special education: Origins of school psychology.

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