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Counseling and School Psychology

joannatorrez — 2024-10-03 03:50:45 UTC

School Counseling are there to help guide the students through social or behavior challenges, academics, and to figure out a plan for their future. They do support the students through college and career goals depending on what age range they are working with like high schools. School counselors would need their master's degree in counseling or another field.

School psychologists are more about mental health but also focus on students' academics social and behavioral needs. They can do typical assessments, crisis management and intervention plans. They will collaborate with teacher, families and others to help the student. Usually school psychologist have their masters in psychology and a state license.

The difference between School Psychologist and School Counselor

joannatorrez — 2024-10-03 05:20:59 UTC

I learned the difference between school psychologist and school counselor. They can be confusing by their names and can be interpreted as the same thing. They both are in position to support the students mental health and academics but their role has differences.

School psychologist are about having a one on one with students and a selective amount. They work with students, teachers, and family to improve their behavior and/or academics. School psychologists will try to improve and push new innovation into the system by collecting data.

School counselors are set in a school-wide students, they meet with mostly every student they can so they can focus on the students college readiness. They are making sure the students have the support in order to succeed after k-12 school.

Both career are trying improve and support the students.

I would say that I am more interested in being a school psychologist, I would like to work students and be able to change the system later on.

I would want to know more about about this career and the pay especially in California and in the Sacramento area.

Self Reflection, Current Situation, and Career of Interest

joannatorrez — 2024-10-03 05:24:35 UTC

I am on majoring in psychology and have been a mentoring program on campus called Prospects: peer mentoring for success. I have been into different variety of classes from physiology, education , and child development. I will be receiving a bachelors degree and can apply for grad school. I will be wanting to apply to masters to achieve a higher education to be able to become a school psychologist.

Analysis

joannatorrez — 2024-10-03 05:40:57 UTC

Some of my personal goals is become a better student. This means communicating, being professional, and time management which I think is very important when wanting to be a grad student.

As I am bias of myself, I believe I have a strong personality on helping others, whether it is through mentoring, emotionally, socially and in different settings. I hope I have a positive impact.

School psychologist need a masters in psychology and have a state certified license. I would need to figure out what program is right for me.

What I learned and Reflection

joannatorrez — 2024-10-03 06:05:05 UTC

This assignment has helped me choose a career goal and learn the difference between two careers. It had made me realieze I do want to this type career. I will keep on looking into more careers to see if this is something that I would want to do since grad school is really big investment.