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Old 05-29-2012, 10:18 AM   #39
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Good point Therapist4Chnge. I think the others cited the problem with the Curtis article (that it includes 3/4 MA/EDS school psychs in the numbers cited. The new findings are being published in a two-part article this month (just came out) and next month - and the data should be interesting to see. ***an, Merrell, and others have published findings that 1/2 of phd school psychs work in traditional school settings and 1/2 practice outside (universities, PP, hospitals, etc.). So it is not unusual for school psych PHDs to have a varied scope of practice.
I would be interested in seeing that data.

I poked around a bit more and found data from 2010 NASP Membership Study, which Curtis also did, and it also matches up with the Curtis et al. (2004) data I cited. The survey did not specifically carve out doctoral-level clinicians (that I could see at a quick glance), so that is a definite limiting factor:

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Public Schools: 83.7%
Private Schools: 6.4%
Faith-Based Schools: 2.6%
University: 7.4%
Independent Practice: 3.5%
Hospital/Medical: 0.8%
State Department: 0.6%
Other: 3.7%
Note: >100% because multiple choices possible
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