This study will focus on the professional identity of school counseling, which is a key function in Israeli schools. Forming a professional identity is part of the process of professional development that begins with academic training and continues throughout one's professional career. Professional identity distinguishes between different…

In an ideal school, where inclusion is implemented successfully, staff members collaborate and create an inclusive environment in their schools. In order to achieve such a sustainable environment of inclusion, pedagogical, organisational and psychological restructuring should occur, and a strong inclusion-oriented leadership has to be activated.…

In recent years, leaders in the school counseling profession worldwide have been calling on their colleagues to re-examine their role as "agents of social justice" in schools, with a view to promoting equal educational opportunities for all students. This research examines counselors' perceptions of the role, role behaviors, personal…

Investigates the role perception and level of job satisfaction of Israeli school psychologists. Findings showed that most Israeli school psychologists wish to practice as clinicians and prefer to spend most of their time working with children in individual therapy and counseling their parents. However, both job perception and satisfaction were…

It has been argued that the nature of academic school psychological programs and the training provided by them are revealed mainly by the informal and often more latent messages delivered to students. Posits that these informal determinants of the training program determine to a large extent the role definition of school psychology that guides…