According to theTexas Department of State Health Services, 246 of the state’s 256 counties have a shortage of mental health professionals, with two counties having partial shortage designations. Bielamowicz, the presiding member of the state psychologists’ licensing b...
The national licensing board announced it will consider folding the proposed skills test into an existing exam amid worries the additional hurdle would discourage applicants.
In June, the Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists published a new rule that an LSSP could use the title of "school psychologist". "It will have a big impact," Becker said. "People need to know we exist and need to know what we are trained to do....
"The mental health of kids in Texas would improve if we had the number of staff to support them," said Jenna Becker, a school psychologist and president of the Texas School Psychologist Association. Texas schools face a severe shortage in most mental health care professions, according to 2022-...
Weeks before she was elected to the State Board of Education last fall, Republican Julie Pickren advocated for school chaplains as one way to put God in classrooms. Pickren’s comments came in a speech to the school chaplain association — where she and her husband are board members...
Maria approaches him to see if he will mentor her for her experiment, which involves seeing if a psychologist with zero knowledge of poker can have success after spending only a year learning the game. Eric knows that most people who get serious about the game come at it thinking a deep ...
A STUDY IN CONTRASTS…Misfits and lowlifes peppered the books of both “hobo writer”Jim Tully(left) and psychologistEleanor Rowland Wembridge, although from very different perspectives. While Wembridge took a more clinical approach to the underclasses, Tully used them for material in his hardscrab...
“We had a great psychologist who was an expert in Myers-Briggs, and he was an SJ,” says Gaddis. “He would show our team where they missed bringing him along in their pitches. It was always a collaborative thing to help us understand how to get in the psyche of the consumer and ...
I’m no psychologist, and I can’t say I begin to understand the wherefores and whys of some human behavior, but I do know that forceful language can be very persuasive in convincing the jury that you truly believe in your case. If you don’t believe in your case, how can you expect...
a combination of those methods. On completion of the course, the course provider shall issue a certificate of completion to each participant. The certificate must state: the name of the participant; the name of the course provider; the date the course was completed; and whether the course ...