Facilitating Effective Communication in School-Based Meetings

Reviews / Votes

"Home-school meetings are a fragile interface between families and educators that require technical and clinical skill of school psychologists. Parkin and Tyre have managed to comprehensively capture the intricacies of home-school meetings and substantiate these intricacies with testimonials from practitioners and trainers throughout the United States. The text is a 'must read' for early career school psychologists and educators wishing to better hone their family-school collaboration skills." -Francis J. DeMatteo, EdD, NCSP, associate professor and director, School Psychology Program, Humboldt State University; author of Delivering Psycho-educational Evaluation Results to Parents: A Practitioner's Model

"Finally a resource on leading school-based teams, Facilitating Effective Communication in School-based Meetings: Perspectives from School Psychologists, fills the void in the school psychology literature in this critical area! Teams are frequently used in schools, but little formal training actually occurs, leaving school psychologists to learn on the fly. Especially noteworthy is its practicality because the author's painstakingly collected the art and wisdom of leading school teams by veteran practitioners. The book is thorough, clear and methodical in its approach, and fun to read. I will be using it in my program across a variety of courses."-Sam Song, PhD, president, Division 16, APA; program coordinator, UNLV School Psychology programs; co-editor of Social Justice and School Psychology; author of School Psychology in a Global Society

"What a gift to the field of school psychology! Unpacking the dynamics of school meetings is so needed and rarely taught in such a practical way. New and seasoned school psychologists will learn so much from this book!" -Rebecca Branstetter, PhD, founder of The Thriving School Psychologist Collective