Psychological services for the school: skills for the school psychologist

In recent years, many facts in the news have once again emphasized the need for the presence of psychological skill within the school. Although there remains a certain resistance to such presence, we feel that some particularly difficult situations and sensitive issues might have been more adequately addressed if there had been an outside observer and super partes. One of the tasks of the school psychologist should be to create an adequate setting for dealing with emotional problems. The school could thus become a container of relations and hence of emotions, which, if properly understood, would make it possible to change the knowing how to do into the knowing how to be. The first task that a school psychologist must deal with in the school is to correctly analyze the request. The perspective proposed here is the psychodynamic one and thus calls for particular attention to the relationship, which is not only an educational relation, but also an interpersonal relation that involves all of the actors on the stage of the school, including the families. Work at school would be meaningless if it did not take into consideration the importance and significance of the school networks and the essential collaboration with the services in the region.