Content developed by the Division 15 Membership Committee. Search for:. Educational Psychology. School Psychology. Mainly for research. Research and clinical training requires practicum and internship. Potential Jobs. Researchers, professors. School psychologists, professors, clinical psychologists with additional experiences and appropriate license. Area of Research. This might be families, schools, teachers, social workers and health professionals. In the past, educational psychologists often worked in or with schools and local authorities.
However, nowadays we see educational psychologists working in other settings and lots of clinical psychologists work in schools and other education settings.
Our psychologists work in our community, educational and residential services to provide specialist psychological assessments, advice, consultation and training. We work with the families, teachers and professionals around the young person to piece together a picture of their strengths and the challenges they face.
As part of this process, we try to discover how any problems or difficulties may have developed, which could include social or cultural factors. We do this to help the people we support to make positive changes in their life to enhance their wellbeing. Join our team and help us champion a better future for the children, young people and adults we support. With their care at the heart. Every young person deserves the chance to shine at school. And with the right support, they can.
Skip to main content. The studies are conducted in groups, with a batch of subjects in each study. This helps in generating a diverse and richer dataset for researchers and psychologists to analyze.
The outcome of the experiments and test conducted by Educational Psychologists help schools and other educational institutions to make better study material and books by understanding and eliminating the shortcomings in their teaching materials and techniques. Thus the findings of educational psychology help the educational institutions in a broader and deeper sense, by detailing the shortcomings and problems that particular teaching methods and teaching materials have, and how these shortcomings can be eliminated and how the teaching method can be made more effective.
School Psychology is the study of understanding the difficulties and problems that individual students face while studying and finding out solutions to these problems. Thus school psychology takes the approach of clinical psychology to solve the problems of students.
As it is a hands-on approach, often the experiments and other testing procedures are conducted on individual subjects. The results obtained are also related to the problems of the particular student, rather than the entire class of students.
Often the learning difficulties and dilemmas faced by students are closely related to the behavioral patterns of the students in a social environment such as a school classroom. School psychology aims to solve the learning difficulties related to a particular student. Thus the outcomes obtained after psychological analysis pertain to the behavioral patterns of that particular student. Thus, this is a highly beneficial process for the growth and development of the students, helping them co-operate better in a social environment.
Psychology is the study of the human mind and depending on the approach and the subjects of a study, the outcomes can vary drastically. Both Educational Psychology and School Psychology are branches of psychology that help in solving the problems and issues related to learning.
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