Sample Assignment Mock Interviews for School Psychologist ..., Study notes of Psychology

Download Sample Assignment Mock Interviews for School Psychologist ... and more Study notes Psychology in PDF only on Docsity! Sample Assignment Mock Interviews for School Psychologist Practicum Objective: Prepare students for practicum interviews at school sites Learning Outcomes: Students will gain the skills to perform a professional internship interview About the Program and Students: School Psychology Program is a three year graduate program with two years of courses and practicum and one year of full-time internship. Typically, in the spring of the second year, the students begin to apply for their 3rd year internships, which is as competitive as job application. Students are normally very nervous and less prepared at this time compared to the time when they finish the internships and apply for jobs. In addition, our program seeks out candidates from under-privileged population. We often have students from disadvantaged background who are not well prepared to present themselves. Therefore, the mock interview service provided by the Career Development Center is very helpful in preparing them for internship interview. Directions: Through the mock interview, the students can get rubric based specific feedback from the Career Development Center staff to be more aware of their own strengths and weakness and practice or learn lesson for real internship interview. Process: 30 minute interviews 5-6 interview questions (3-4 minute response each) 10 minute feedback Interview rubric Interview Questions 1. Tell us about your experience in counseling students and providing crisis intervention. All students have taken basic counseling class from Counseling Department, group counseling, and currently taking cognitive behavior therapy. They will pick up a counseling case but not yet. They have participated a school-wide crisis intervention program training called PrePare which emphasize an entire school to have a systematic and leveled crisis plan and to use a multidisciplinary team to engage in crisis prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery. School mental health professionals must be involved in the following specific hierarchical and sequential set of activities:  P—Prevent and PREPaRE for psychological trauma  R—Reaffirm physical health and perceptions of security and safety  E—Evaluate psychological trauma risk  P—Provide interventions  a—and  R—Respond to psychological needs  E—Examine the effectiveness of crisis prevention and intervention The students may not have had experiences in crisis intervention but they should be able to talk about what it is like. 2. As a school psychologist, how do you see your role in working with general education teachers, students, and families within Fresno/Clovis Unified School District? For both districts:  Provide behavioral and instructional consultation with general education teachers to help them serve the particular students with difficulties.  Through individual consultation with teachers  And SST (students support team) meetings  Provide direct services with students such as social skills training group and counseling services.  Provide consultation and collaborate with families who have children experiencing learning, social, and emotional and behavioral difficulties.  Provide parent training if needed.  At systems level, help the school to establish early identification and intervention system such as mutlitiered service system, including RTI (response to intervention), PBIS (positive behavioral intervention and spport), and tiered mental health services.  Help choose screening tools and help with screening  Help identify evidence-based interveionts  Help with small group interventions such as behavior intervention and social skills training and group counseling.  Help collect data for identification and intervention monitoring purposes 3. School psychology is a multi-faceted position, responding to many demands. How would you handle the workload of assessments, counseling requests, in-service training, report writing, and your thesis data collection and writing? o Prioritize these tasks depending on the needs and deadline o The school psych program I am currently in is very demanding and challenging o I have had experiences similar to the work-load o The most important thing is time management or organization. o Time block o Make schedules and plan ahead of time o Use calendar effectively o They can talk about their other strategies used. 4. Briefly explain the steps you would take in conducting a functional assessment for a child referred for behavior problems?  Review the student’s file  Interview the teacher the gain information on o Prioritize and define the behavior problem that is the most pressing o Examples of the behavior problem o What occurred before (antecedents) and after (consequences) the behavior problem  Observe the student’s target behavior problem and take ABC data multiple times and across settings o A: antecedents o B: behavior problem o C: consequences  Generate the hypothesis of the function of the behavior