Project Description:
This leadership training project responds to a need to train doctoral students in school psychology as leaders in interdisciplinary collaboration across medical, educational, and family systems. It represents a partnership between the School Psychology program at UNL and the Munroe Meyer Institute at UNMC. It is a collaborative project that brings together two well-established training programs and empirically supported models of practice (i.e., conjoint behavioral consultation and interdisciplinary collaboration).
The goals of the project are to recruit high quality school psychology doctoral students and prepare them to be leaders in (a) providing culturally-sensitive, family-centered interdisciplinary collaboration services to addresses complex medical, educational, and family needs of students with disabilities; (b) delivering consultation services across medical, school, and family settings; and (c) conducting research and contributing to the knowledge base in the areas of interdisciplinary collaboration. Through their involvement and completion of the specialization track, doctoral school psychology students will acquire competencies related to knowledge, skills, and leadership. Specifically, participants will demonstrate (a) knowledge of medical/educational issues, roles of multiple service providers (medical, educational, families), systems supporting children with disabilities, and intervention options; (b) skills in interdisciplinary consultation and collaboration, culturally-sensitive, family-centered services, and intervention design and evaluation; and (c) leadership competencies related to school-linked interdisciplinary collaboration, research design, implementation, and dissemination.
