School & Family Consultation
Reciprocal, nonhierarchical, coordinate
What is the nature of the relationship?
Low income and economic marginalization.
What is a term used to conceptualize poverty that incorporates many aspects of what it means to economically oppressed?
Willingness to consider novel claims but also an insistence on evidence to support them.
What is skepticism?
An organization and its operations and networks that shape decision making?
What is a system?
Shared understanding regarding the types of information that will and will not be shared with third parties.
What is confidentiality?
Anything that impedes problem solving, plan implementation, or problem resolution.
What is resistance?
Awareness, knowledge, and skills to serve diverse populations in ways that improve their outcomes.
What is culturally competent practice?
The world is exactly how we see it.
What is naive realism?
All of the members of a system who will be impacted by change.
Who are stakeholders?
School psychologists accurately represent themselves in professional promises, qualifications, and services delivered?
What is honesty and integrity in professional relationships?
Practices implemented when a student is struggling or there is little family engagement after universal practices have been implemented.
What are upper tier practices?
Someone who challenges institutional power structures in schools via advocacy.
What is a social justice school psychologist?
Preoccupation with group unanimity that can impair critical evaluation of decisions.
What is groupthink?
Comprehensive reform of educational perspectives, policies, and practices in an educational system.
What is systemic change?
School psychologists use scientific knowledge to help others and accept the consequences of their work.
What is professional competence and responsibility?
Relationship-based process by which parents connect with their child across contexts to support their child's development.
What is parent engagement?
A common term used to describe underachievement that places blame on individual students rather than the systemic injustices that significantly contribute to disparate outcomes.
What is the "achievement gap."
Error in understanding the prevalence of a phenomenon when evaluating the likelihood of its occurrence.
What is base rate neglect?
A disparity (e.g., achievement, high school graduation) that results from differential access, opportunity, and participation in education.
What is disproportionality in special education?
School psychologists promote healthy school environments and contribute to the profession through mentoring and supervision.
What is responsibility to community and society?
An individual who may be more objective in their perceptions of problems and less likely to feel pressured by organizational members to make certain decisions.
What is an external consultant?
Fair and equitable distribution of resources, rights, and treatment for marginalized individuals and groups who do not possess equal power in society.
What is social justice?
Scientific theory that anticipates certain outcomes while also precluding other outcomes.
What is falsifiability?
Attending to the beliefs, attitudes, knowledge, and skills of educators through professional development, using resources to support implementation, and ensuring policies and procedures are developed and communicated.
What is capacity building?
Consult with supervisors and colleagues.
What is step 4 of the ethical problem solving model?