JEPC Call for Abstracts: Special Issue: NASP 2020 Professional Practice Standards: Applications and Opportunities for School-Based Consultation

[Pamela Fenning]

Call for Abstracts: Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation

 Special Issue: NASP 2020 Professional Practice Standards: Applications and Opportunities for School-Based Consultation

The National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) 2020 Standards went into effect in July of 2020 (NASP, 2020). With its focus on a more comprehensive role of school psychologists, the NASP 2020 Standards have significant potential for broadening and enhancing consultation service delivery. Further, opportunities for consultation are occurring in the midst of worldwide challenges due to COVID-19 and continued unspeakable acts of racism, bias, prejudice and discrimination in schools and society, which calls for school psychologists to be as prepared as possible in consultative roles centered on equity and social justice. This special issue is devoted to how the NASP (2020) standards can be leveraged to expand and enhance the role of school psychologists as consultants in meeting the needs of children, families and communities we serve and/or preparing the next generation of school psychologists to do so.

We are seeking manuscripts for a special issue that cover at least one of four standards directly aligned with the NASP 2020 Standards as follows: (1) professional practice; (2) graduate preparation; (3) ethics and (4) selected NASP strategic goals that pertain to consultation, such as social justice, national shortage of school psychologists, anti-racism, equity and increasing the diversity of practitioners and graduate educators. Papers which focus on advocacy and opportunities for utilizing the NASP 2020 Standards to advance one or more of these areas are welcome.  Further, papers which consider how the NASP 2020 Standards about consultation can be applied to address critical issues in the field, such as the realities of COVID-19, anti-racism and federal/state policy implications are welcome.

Those interested in submitting a manuscript should send a 300-word abstract by March 15^th, 2021 to any of the three co-editors: Pam Fenning (pfe...@luc.edu), Natalie Politikos (poli...@hartford.edu) or Melissa Pearrow (melissa...@umb.edu). Full manuscripts will be invited by April 15^th, 2021 with initial submissions due August 15^th, 2021.  As per the JEPC policy, all manuscripts will go through the peer review process prior to a final decision regarding acceptance. Please send any questions to one of the three co-editors. Please visit the link here for more detailed information about the special issue:

http://bit.ly/Journal_Educational_Psychological_Consultation

 

Thank you! Pam Fenning (Loyola University Chicago), Natalie Politikos (University of Hartford) and Melissa Pearrow (University of Massachusetts, Boston)

References

National Association of School Psychologists (NASP, 2020).  The Professional Standards of the National Association of School Psychologists. Bethesda, MD: Author.

https://www.nasponline.org/standards-and-certification/nasp-2020-professional-standards-adopted