Abstract
School psychology is experiencing a shortages crisis. Within this two-part study, the Social Cognitive Career Theory was used to examine the impact of video interventions on students' choice and application to school psychology programs. A sub-sample of participants were followed across 4 years. Findings suggest that, when measured immediately before and after, a short video intervention had a significant impact on participants' perceived knowledge and intentions to apply to a school psychology training program. However, when measured across several years, the video was not found to have a significant impact on actual application to a school psychology training program. Nevertheless, exposure to school psychology from multiple sources was still found to be the best predictor of actually applying to a school psychology program. Study results highlight the importance of concerted efforts throughout the career development pipeline to expose students to the profession of school psychology.
Original language | English |
---|---|
Pages (from-to) | 1287-1300 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | Psychology in the Schools |
Volume | 56 |
Issue number | 8 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2019 |
Keywords
- choice action
- exposure
- recruitment
- social cognitive career theory
- video intervention