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The School Based Psychologist

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 September 2016

Jenny Hall
Jenny Hall*
Affiliation:
Presbyterian Ladies' College, Burwood, Victoria
*
Presbyterian Ladies' College, Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125
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Whilst the Victorian Education Department does not provide school based psychologists, many non government schools in Victoria have done so for a number of years. The girls'school at which I work has employed “counsellors” for nearly 40 years. The counsellor has been a psychologist for about 20 years and for the last 6 years the school has employed two full time psychologists. The school currently has 1004 students in the Senior School (years 7 to 12) and 370 students in the Junior School (preparatory to Grade 6). I believe all schools, both government and non government should employ school based psychologists because they can contribute in ways that are not possible for a person who is based elsewhere and visits a school once, or even several times a week.

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Research Article
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The Educational and Developmental Psychologist , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , November 1984 , pp. 35 - 37
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Psychological Society 1984

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