Student support practitioners, who provide students with academic, emotional and social support, are integral to higher education institutions' initiatives to widen participation of students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Yet, despite calls for a deeper understanding of widening-participation practice, the work of these professionals has received…

Presents a detailed description of the school psychological services in Israel. An explanation of the educational system and its characteristics is provided. The school psychologist's activities, areas of emphasis, and field work are reviewed, important issues are described, and future challenges and objectives are discussed. (BH)

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…