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Birch, Susan; Bow, Suzanne; Lang, Jane; Dunsmuir, Sandra – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2023
In the UK, speech and language therapists (SLTs) and educational psychologists (EPs) are professionals who support children with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN). Legislative and socio-economic changes within the UK and continuing concern about poor outcomes for children with SLCN provided the impetus for a focus on…
Descriptors: Interprofessional Relationship, Partnerships in Education, Educational Psychology, Psychologists
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Dunsmuir, Sandra; Kennedy, Emma-Kate; Lang, Jane; Monsen, Jeremy J. – Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation, 2023
In the field of Educational Psychology, consultation is both a core competency to be achieved by the end of pre-service training and a practice that infuses all aspects of service delivery post-qualification. The present study aimed to explore the perspectives of university educators on preparing trainee educational psychologists to consult,…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Psychologists, Counselor Training, Foreign Countries
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Dunsmuir, Sandra; Atkinson, Cathy; Lang, Jane; Warhurst, Amy; Wright, Sarah – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2017
Objective Structured Professional Assessments (OSPAs) were developed and evaluated at three universities in the United Kingdom, to supplement supervisor assessments of trainee educational psychologists' placement practice. Participating second year students on three educational psychology doctoral programmes (n = 31) and tutors (n = 12) were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Psychology, Psychologists, Graduate Students
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Atkinson, Cathy; Dunsmuir, Sandra; Lang, Jane; Wright, Sarah – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2015
The Children and Families Act (2014) extends statutory protections for young people with special educational needs and disabilities until age 25. Consequently the core curriculum for trainee educational psychologists (TEPs) needs to be developed beyond the current focus of work with early years and school-age children. In order to define requisite…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Psychologists, Counselor Training, Trainees
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Squires, Garry; Dunsmuir, Sandra – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2011
At the national level there has been a call for more therapeutic interventions and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) has been identified as one approach that can be used. The training of educational psychologists (EPs) has been extended to three years and this provides an opportunity to increase the depth of knowledge of particular therapeutic…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Psychologists, Focus Groups, Professional Training
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Dunsmuir, Sandra; Clifford, Vivienne; Took, Sarah – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2006
This paper reports a study that aimed to investigate the perspectives of educational psychologists (EPs) and speech and language therapists (SLTs) about collaborative practices across these two services, to identify any barriers to collaboration and to explore how these could be overcome. The views of EPs and SLTs in two local authorities were…
Descriptors: Resource Allocation, Psychologists, Data Analysis, Cooperation