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What criticism of school psychology exist in regards to theory?
- training, research and practice is poorly linked to theory, models and frameworks
- interventions are atheoretical and focus solely on effectiveness and not causal processes or mechanisms of change
What were the findings of Mercer, Idler, and Bartfai (2014) regarding theory in school psychology research?
about 50% of research articles in this field do not attend to theory or contribute to theory
What are common theoretical orientations of counselling psychologists? And to what do they contribute the cause of mental health problems?
- Feminist, multicultural, and social justice
- social environmental explanations
What are common theoretical orientations of clinical psychologists? And to what do they contribute the cause of mental health problems?
- Cognitive behavioural, psychodynamic or psychoanalytic
- With-person causes
Why should we use theory?
- Provides structure to guide our practices and help us solve problems
- Helps us conceptualize data
- helps us increase intervention effectiveness by focusing on the important aspects
- Allows us to flexibly consider other angles and theories if we understand our own
- Helps us to best move the field forward in research and practice
What is a theoretical framework?
- A school of thoughts or domains
- A broad approach or orientations with processes applicable to many different intervention targets and procedures
What are the core domains within school psychology?
- Behavioural
- Cognitive
- Developmental
- Social
- Biological
What is the layout of theories in psychology?
- Broadest category is domains
- Small Theories
- Conceptual framework
What are psychological theories (small theories)?
- a testable set of principles that are well researched and can be used to predict human behaviour
- connected to a particular domain, and lead to particular practices
- help us identify the causality of intervention and expected outcomes
What are conceptual frameworks?
- A network of interlinked concepts that together provide a comprehensive understanding of a phenomenon
- Similar to theory, as they help with data interpretation and conceptualizing underlying constructs
- Less researched, more complex, and more narrow than theories
What is an Integrative or Eclectic Theoretical Approach?
- looks beyond the confines of a single domain approach
- Allows flexible approaches to customize to unique needs and contexts
- Consistent with a call for practitioners to rely on integration of theory and empirical research
What are criticism of eclectic approaches?
- Lack of Organization and structure
- Equated with lazy, sloppy, or unorganized practices
What are the 3 ways to integrate approaches into an eclectic framework?
- Technical Integration
- Theoretical Integration
- Assimilative Integration
What is Technical Integration (eclectic)?
- Systematic selection of techniques from many approaches without necessarily the underpinning theory
- “A variety of tools in the toolkit”
- effectiveness determined by therapists flexibility, versatility, and technical eclecticism
- not heavily theory based
What is Theoretical Integration (eclectic)?
- Create a conceptual framework that synthesizes the best of two or more approaches
- Integrates underlying techniques for each theory
- Most difficult
What is Assimilative Integration (eclectic)?
Grounded in a single orientation, but drawing techniques from other models in as seamless a fashion as possible
What are the benefits of an eclectic practice in school psychology?
- Consistent with calls for SP’s to rely on integration of theory and empirical research
- Consistent with recognition that many major theories are consistent with and build on each other more than competing
- Attends to the diversity in our practice
What is the traditional school psychology service delivery model?
- Refer - test - place and Aptitude - by - treatment interaction (ATI)
- These are largely based on the beliefs that results on tests can be used to drive instruction and intervention
- Largely correlational approach
What are the criticisms of the traditional school psychology service delivery model?
- It is deficit focused
- The empirical support equivocal
What is some of the research against traditional service delivery models?
- Biased decision making and referrals limits the SP’s ability to support all students or even the right students
- the Wait to Fail model often means we are intervening when students are already too far behind
- It does not meaningfully inform intervention as many areas assessed cannot be directly changed, and we have a hard time understanding whether interventions are working
What is behavioural psychology?
focus on changing observable behaviours
focus on single-case design methodology
What are some theories under behavioural psychology?
- Behavioural learning theory
- social learning theory
What are some examples of academic interventions under behavioural psychology?
direct instruction
reinforce accurate responding
functional analyses of academic problems
What are some examples of behavioural interventions under behavioural psychology?
determine if a consequence is negatively reinforcing the behaviour
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