Psychological Services staff provide support to schools in a variety of ways including:

Consultation with School Staff: 

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 

Individual and Group Counseling: 

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.  

Suicide Risk Assessments:

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

Threat Assessments:

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).

District Crisis Team Support:

Members of the crisis team support schools in dealing with crises by providing a sense of confidence, control and security at a time of uncertainty, chaos, and emotional turmoil. Additionally, this team provides a process for helping students and staff cope emotionally with a crisis, maintain safety, determine needs, and identify support mechanisms.

Staff Trainings:

Psychological Services staff assist in training school staff on a variety of topics based on identified needs.