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T4C, it's just the brain, how hard could it be? I mean, as long as you know it has 2 hemispheres and it's bad if you get hit there really hard, you're good.
That's my take as well; simply because it's practiced solely in a school setting doesn't then somehow make it less complex than if it were in another environment (e.g., hospital, private practice, community mental health clinic). If the individual isn't able to practice neuropsychology outside of a school, how are they then able to practice it in a school, particularly as some of those same students will be the ones presenting to a pediatric neuropsychologist?
As for the school vs. clinical/counseling psychologist as a neuropsychologist bit, if the school psychologist (doctoral-level) obtained adequate supervised clinical training and completed a formal two-year fellowship in neuropsychology, then I view them as a neuropsychologist. But simply having more or less training in psychometrics doesn't make them inherently any more of a neuropsychologist than the average non-fellowship trained clinical/counseling psychologist. If there's one thing I've learned on fellowship, it's that the testing itself (including the tests' psychometric principles) is only one (potentially small) part of what I actually do day to day.
"Due to these differences in regulations, it is more practical to have School Psychologist receive neuropsychology training post EdS degree with one-year of didactics\practicum and one-year of supervision rather than having Clinical\Counseling Psychologist with a two-year clinical neuropsychology training return to complete the School Psychology and Special Education courses and then do a one-year full-time internship in a school setting, and then take the NCSP exam to acquire licensing as a School Psychologist."
Ha!!!! Neuropsych is more complicated than the latter nonsense. It is more practical to refer out. . .
School districts do refer to clinical neuropsychologist when the clinical neuropsychologist accepts Medicaid or the child's health insurance. In some cases there is not a clinical pediatric neuropsychologist in the City or even in the State so the parent has to go out of State. In some situations, the Clinical Neuropsychologist may charge $700 to $1000 or more for a neuropsych evaluation. Many of the Children's Hospitals are fully scheduled for neuropsychology evaluations and the evaluation may be a year or more waiting for the child, parents, and school district.
One problem is this creates masters level "neuropsychologists" and another is the board requirements for specialty (the school neuro board is not very stringent compared to our neuro boards) and yet another is confusion for patients, and another, the court system. All around it's just bad professional juju and further obfuscates the process for consumers including other professionals.
That's my take as well; simply because it's practiced solely in a school setting doesn't then somehow make it less complex than if it were in another environment (e.g., hospital, private practice, community mental health clinic). If the individual isn't able to practice neuropsychology outside of a school, how are they then able to practice it in a school, particularly as some of those same students will be the ones presenting to a pediatric neuropsychologist?
As for the school vs. clinical/counseling psychologist as a neuropsychologist bit, if the school psychologist (doctoral-level) obtained adequate supervised clinical training and completed a formal two-year fellowship in neuropsychology, then I view them as a neuropsychologist. But simply having more or less training in psychometrics doesn't make them inherently any more of a neuropsychologist than the average non-fellowship trained clinical/counseling psychologist. If there's one thing I've learned on fellowship, it's that the testing itself (including the tests' psychometric principles) is only one (potentially small) part of what I actually do day to day.
It's fine if someone wants to take a course and/or learn more about the field of neuropsychology, but it does not make them proficient to start administering assessments and serving in the role of a neuropsychologist. A few years back I completed an in-depth neuroanatomy seminar that included the removal of an intact spinal cord. It was a great learning experience, but it didn't make me remotely qualified to repeat the procedure in my own practice and represent myself as a qualified person for this procedure.
Wait, you don't routinely perform laminectomies? It's a very lucrative side business, you should give it a go