Summer 2025 Adjunct Faculty SPSY 700: Legal and Professional Foundations of School Psychology
Location: Moraga, CA
Open Date: Apr 24, 2025
Deadline: May 08, 2025 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time
Description:Per course adjunct faculty for the Counseling Department, School Psychology
SPSY 700 Legal and Professional Foundations of School Psychology (3 units, remote)
MW 4:00 - 7:30PM 5/27/25 - 7/6/25
Founded in 1863, Saint Mary's is a residential campus nestled 20 miles east of San Francisco in the picturesque Moraga Valley. Based in the Catholic, Lasallian and Liberal Arts traditions, Saint Mary's currently enrolls more than 4,000 students from diverse backgrounds in undergraduate and graduate programs. The De La Salle Christian Brothers, the largest teaching order of the Roman Catholic Church, guide the spiritual and academic character of the College.
As a comprehensive and independent institution, Saint Mary's offers undergraduate and graduate programs integrating liberal and professional education. Saint Mary's reputation for excellence, innovation, and responsiveness in education stems from its vibrant heritage as a Catholic, Lasallian and Liberal Arts institution. An outstanding, committed faculty and staff that value shared inquiry, integrative learning, and student interaction bring these traditions to life in the 21st century. The College is committed to the educational benefits of diversity.
Qualifications:
SPSY 700 Legal and Professional Foundations of School Psychology (3 units, remote)
Course Description: This course is designed as an introduction to the laws, ethical guidelines, and professional issues that shape applied psychological work with children and adolescents. Because schools are an important context in which most children learn and develop, all professionals who seek to work with children and adolescents need to be familiar with the unique challenges, opportunities, and constraints that derive from providing psychological services within schools. Course content will cover the emergence of the profession of school psychology, its transition over time, continuing issues in school psychology role change, legal and ethical concepts of importance to the field, and the development of individual identity as an ethical psychologist who is committed to children's best interest. Class time will be spent on lectures and presentations; student-led discussion will be heavily emphasized. Both formal assignments and discussions are designed to encourage and increase student participation.
Conducting a critical analysis of each reading and providing substantive contributions to the classdiscussions are necessary to succeed in this course.
Qualifications:

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  MA or Doctoral Degree in Counseling, Psychology, or School Psychology
  
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  A minimum of 3 years experience as a practicing school psychologist.
  
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  An Administrative Services Credential is highly preferred
  
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  A successful record of teaching experience at the graduate level in school psychology is highly preferred
  
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  A PPS credential in school psychology is required
  
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  A demonstrated commitment to teaching excellence, multicultural/international competence, social justice, clinical expertise, and familiarity with counseling & psychological theory and practice is highly preferred
  

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