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Weekly Reflection

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Weekly Reflection Paper: 8
This week’s readings covered the ethical and legal issues in psychoeducational assessment as well as in school-based interventions. School psychologists are life-long learners and need to stay on top of these ever-changing issues.
Testing is just one part of the assessment process. The assessment process includes not only the tests given, but the interviews, observations, and other records as well. School psychologist understand the difference between medical and ecological models when it comes to psychological assessment. In the past, the medical model was accepted alone to help explain the issues students might be faced with. However, the ecological model is now welcoming the possibility of other factors to influence the behavior presented by the child (Jacob, Decker, & Hartshorne, 2011). …show more content…

Although a classroom will always be scattered with learning disabilities, it’s the social and emotional disabilities that will forever hold a place in my heart. I wanted to be able to learn how to spot this daily challenges students were living with, but also be aware of the different interventions and services that I could provide. I realized I spent a majority of my time on issues like this when it came to student teaching and other opportunities I had in the classroom. This was another reason that I decided school psychology was the profession foe me. I felt that I had always believed in more of an ecological model which is why during our orientation day before our first class, I sighed a huge sigh of relief when Ed explained that UNL has a very ecological model mindset. It gave me even more confidence, that I was exactly where I needed to

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