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Xenor,

I agree with most of the posts regarding helping
this girl in her time of crisis.  However, I have
to disagree with what you said re:  school
psychologists not being trained to provide crisis
intervention.  In Canada we certainly are trained
to give such intervention.  Who else would deal
with all the crises (eg. suicides, suicidal
thoughts, abuse situations, etc) which happen
daily, or only come to light during school hours?
I don't mean to be overly defensive, but
unfortunately, people often think that school
psychologists are not "real" psychologists but are
instead glorified psychometricians.  In fact, we
are trained in a very similar way to clinical
psychology students, only with a specialization in
dealing with issues that come up around
schooling.  Crises certainly happen in daily at
schools!    Thanks for letting me vent....

Wendy Digout
MA student,
School Psychology Program
Mount St. Vincent University
Halifax, NS, Canada

> Action (1) Advise her to contact a shelter, if
> one is available. This
> is assuming the psychologist has the knowledge
> to do so. If no shelter
> is available, a crisis support line should be
> recommended.
> Rationale (1) As a school psychologist, he is
> not qualified to offer
> crisis support and she needs immediate help