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Vocational assessment involvement and use of the self‐directed search by school psychologists
Author(s) -
Levinson Edward M.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
psychology in the schools
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.738
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1520-6807
pISSN - 0033-3085
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6807(199007)27:3<217::aid-pits2310270307>3.0.co;2-4
Subject(s) - vocational education , psychology , vocational school , school psychology , process (computing) , component (thermodynamics) , applied psychology , psychological testing , medical education , pedagogy , clinical psychology , computer science , medicine , physics , thermodynamics , operating system
This paper offers a justification for the school psychologist's involvement in the vocational assessment process and suggests the use of a vocational instrument entitled the Self‐Directed Search (SDS). It is argued that use of this instrument can provide school psychologists with a psychometrically sound and time‐ and cost‐efficient means of incorporating a vocational component into their secondary school psychoeducational assessments. The SDS, and the theory upon which it is based, is described. The integration of SDS data with other psychoeducational data to generate vocationally specific recommendations is also discussed.