Supervision is a distinct competency area in professional psychology with a burgeoning research base. Yet it remains unclear to what extent the broad supervision research base generalizes specifically to supervision of psychological services in schools for both preservice trainees and credentialed school psychologists. The purposes of this study…

This case study examines behavioral supervision of behavioral consultation (BSBC) during a school-based practicum experience in one school psychology training program. Supervision implemented by three advanced doctoral trainees included performance feedback to increase supervisees' understanding and implementation of behavioral consultation.…

School psychology practica are a series of applied training activities intended to link to the burgeoning development of trainees' knowledge, skills, and values across multiple domains. The purpose if this article is to summarize results from a recently published study of practicum training in the United States (Newman et al., 2019) and to…

The authors thank Jeffrey Charvat, Director of Research, National Association of School Psychologists (NASP), for his guidance regarding survey development and administration, and Wendy Finn, former Director of Membership and Marketing, NASP, for her assistance with sampling and data collection. The authors thank Concetta Panuccio for her…

The early career, considered by the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) to be the first 5 years of professional school psychology practice following graduation, is a critical period for school psychologists' development of professional identity, knowledge, and skills. Consistent with research in the counseling psychology…

Supervision is considered a keystone instructional tool in school psychology and has been argued to be an essential feature of effective consultation training. However, descriptive data suggest that supervision is not always incorporated as part of consultation training. In this article the application of a structured peer group supervision (SPGS)…

Effective supervision models guide the supervisory relationship and supervisory tasks leading to reflective and purposeful practice. The Developmental/Ecological/Problem-Solving (DEP) Model provides a contemporary framework for supervision specific to school psychology. Designed for the school psychology internship, the DEP Model is also…

The purpose of this study was to explore a university-based supervision process for consultants-in-training (CITs) engaged in a preservice level consultation course with applied practicum experience. The study was approached from a constructivist worldview using a grounded theory methodology. Data consisted of supervision session transcripts,…