Teaching School Psychology to Psychologists

In this chapter, we offer some insights for teaching psychology and training school psychologists. Five points are made. The first one is about the historical perspective that will help to understand the current development in school psychology. The second point deals with the professional profile of school psychologists, and it indicates the different domains of their interventions. The third point explores the knowledge and competencies school psychologists should master to effectively carry out their work. The fourth point addresses the question of how to train professional school psychologists. The fifth and final point shows how strongly school psychology is rooted into the social and cultural context schools are part of. To this aim, we propose Active Theory as a theoretical framework able to describe and interconnect all the different levels and actors involved when looking at school as a system.