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From Teacher to School Psychologist: A Programme of Counsellor Training

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 October 2015

Erica Frydenberg ,
Terry Lee  and
Vicki McKenzie
Erica Frydenberg
Affiliation:
Student Services, Education Department, Victoria
Terry Lee
Affiliation:
Student Services, Education Department, Victoria
Vicki McKenzie
Affiliation:
Student Services, Education Department, Victoria
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In Victoria Guidance Officers provide school psychology and guidance services to families and schools. Most are located throughout Victorian centres which service local school communities and these by and large provide a generalist service which is supplemented by the service of statewide specialists.

New recruits are drawn from the teaching service and those teachers with the necessary combination of experience, qualifications and personal qualities are eligible to apply. There is usually a new intake each year and this number varies according to staff ceilings and vacancies. In 1983 the intake was 45 trainee Guidance Officers which was the largest number of teachers ever recruited. These trainees were allocated to local centres where they would undertake their supervised apprenticeship, which together with the compulsory central training, would make them eligible in two years to become registered Guidance Officers.

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Research Article
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The Educational and Developmental Psychologist , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , November 1985 , pp. 4 - 7
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Copyright © Australian Psychological Society 1985

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