Well-Being, Learning, and Achievement

What Does the Division of Psychological Services Do?

• Facilitate the implementation of best practice guidelines for the provision of comprehensive school psychological services
• Maintain all psychological evaluations for data collection and distribution
• Link school psychologist Medicaid reporting functions with the Department of Special Education
• Oversee the recruitment, interviewing, and hiring of school psychologists and school psychologist interns
• Conduct monthly orientation meetings for interns and school psychologists new to MCPS
• Plan, coordinate, and deliver monthly staff development meetings for all MCPS school psychologists
• Provide clinical/professional supervision for MCPS school psychologists
• Coordinate assignments of school psychologists
• Order and disseminate all psychological assessment tools
• Act as liaison to University school psychology training programs
• Mediate disputes when the public questions information in psychological evaluations interpreted as inaccurate or misleading
• Coordinate, provide staff development, monitors and evaluates the implementation of the Collaborative Action Process