I am just starting out as a School Psychologist. This upcoming school year, 2010-2011, I will be out on internship. Finally, I will get to be in the schools every day of the week and get PAID!! I am relocating from my home of 7 years in Nebraska to a new state. Off to Kansas we GO! By this time next year I will be blogging as a Nationally Certified School Psychologist!
This blog with focus primarily on my experiences around being a School Psychologist. There are many issues that we face daily and sometimes people just don't talk about the impact it makes on our profession and individually.
Most recently I was deeply troubled by hearing of another school psych who had been accused of sexually inappropriate conduct with a student. This accusation was thrown at him by the mother of a child, of whom she did not want services for. The accusation turned out to be completely false. But it is frightening the power of those kinds of accusations, particularly if you are a male. A false accusation of this nature could put a person out of a job for good; true or not. People tend to lose all rationality when it comes to sex and children.
It's a scary world we live in and the people in helping professions tend to be the most vulnerable to accusations like these. We forget that we have to be careful and somewhat paranoid. It's a shame we have to be that way, but protect yourself.
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