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Title: Charles County Public Schools Department of Student Services


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Charles County Public SchoolsDepartment of
Student Services
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Student Services
Interagency Liaison HSP(LMB)
Grant Acquisition/ Administration
School Psychologists
Pupil Personnel Workers
School Counselors
School Nurses
Student Data Accounting
Juvenile Resource Officers
School Safety and Security
Safe and Drug-Free Schools
Hearing Officers
Student Transfers And Special Exceptions Office
PBIS
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Psychological Services
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Credentials
  • Entry Level
  • 3 year Graduate Level Program
  • Masters/Advanced Graduate Specialist Level
  • Minimum of 60 Graduate Credits
  • Minimum of 1,200 hour internship in a school
    setting

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Current Staff
  • 30 School Psychologists
  • All certified by MSDE
  • 5 have Doctoral Degrees
  • 3 additional in progress
  • 19 are Nationally Certified School Psychologists

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Current Assignments
  • 9 assigned exclusively to therapeutic programs
  • A full-time psychologist assigned to the Stethem
    Center
  • A full-time Positive Behavioral Interventions and
    Supports (PBIS) Coordinator
  • A full-time Supervisor
  • 18 assigned to 34 schools

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Ratio of Psychologists to Students
National Association of School Psychologists
recommends a ratio of one school psychologist per
1,000 students
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Roles
  • Consultation
  • Prevention
  • Crisis Response
  • Assessment
  • Intervention
  • Training/In-service

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School Psychologists Activities2006 - 2007
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Involvement in School Teams
  • Student Support Team (SST)
  • 504 Team
  • Individualized Education Program (IEP)
  • PBIS (serve as coaches)
  • Crisis Response Team
  • School Improvement Team

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Safe Schools
  • Psychologists have received training by
  • National Association of School Psychologists
    (NASP)
  • Maryland School Psychologists Association (MSPA)
  • Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
  • International Critical Incident Stress Foundation
    (ICISF)
  • Supervising School Psychologist on an MSPA
    sub-committee writing a statewide Crisis Response
    Manual for School Psychologists

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Suicide Prevention
  • Mandatory annual staff in-service
  • Psychologists play the key role in assessing risk
    of suicide
  • More than 40 risk assessments have been conducted
    by school psychologists thus far this year

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Yearly Suicide/Risk Assessments
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Violent Risk Assessments
  • All school psychologists trained annually on
    protocols for Violence Risk Assessments
  • New administrators recently in-serviced
  • Incidents typically involve Juvenile Intervention
    Officers as well as the School Administrators

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  • School Psychologists use their training in both
    education and psychology to help students
    succeed academically, socially, and
    emotionally.
  • Through collaboration with educators and
    parents they help create a safe and supportive
    learning environment and strengthen connections
    between home and school.
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