Psychological Services

Psychological Services staff frequently consult with teachers, school staff, and district staff to enhance student learning by:

• Identifying and resolving academic barriers to learning
• Designing and implementing student progress monitoring systems
• Designing and implementing academic and behavioral interventions
• Supporting effective individualized instruction
• Creating positive classroom environments
• Motivating all students to engage in learning

School Psychologists work with individual students or as a team with other providers to support students’ health and well-being through short-term counseling. Various tools, techniques, and strategies will be utilized to maximize results for students and/or groups of students.

School Psychologists work with trained school staff to conduct suicide risk assessments. This involves a standardized interview process to obtain an estimate of the immediate danger to the student, gain insight into the student’s thoughts and behaviors, risk factors, protective factors, and history. This information will also help to develop potential treatment plans.

This is intended to prevent violence and involves both assessment and intervention as School Psychologists work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to assist in collecting data to determine whether a student poses a threat of violence (they have intent and means to carry out the threat).