Challenge Areas

Children and adolescents are facing various challenges such as:

1. Academic (e.g., learning difficulties)
2. Adaptive (g., grooming, dressing, safety, food handling, cleaning, making friends, social skills, and the personal responsibility expected of their age and social group)
3. Behavioral (e.g., bullying, school-nonattendance, truancy, disruptive behavior, juvenile delinquency)
4. Cognitive (e.g., difficulty to remember, problem in abstract reasoning, problem in decision making, problem in logical thinking, low IQ)
5. Creative (e.g., lack of creativity)
6. Developmental (e.g., motor delay, muscle weakness, sensory deprivations in play, art, music, peer interaction, and apathy to eat and drink)
7. Emotional (e.g., adjustment problem, mood swing, anxiety, depression, loneliness, inferiority complex, low self-esteem, narcissism)
8. Moral (e.g., lying, cheating, stealing, disobedience, disrespectful)
9. Social (e.g., shyness, shameful, guilt-feeling, self-blaming, eve teasing, social phobia, family conflict, parental separation, parental alienation, communication problem, peer pressure, poverty, low EQ)
10. Vocational and Aptitude (e.g., stream preferences, subject preferences, vocational preferences, aptitudes).

School psychologists attempt to provide a common framework for helping children and adolescents with above problems from different perspectives including academic support, school discipline, educational counseling, special education, and school health services. Additionally, School Psychologists try to help boost up potentials of learners without specific problems by applying principles of positive psychology. School Psychology as an applied field creates and supports theories and practices in psycho-educational services to address and solve problems which all school-age children may experience. School Psychology considers school education as a human service and it aims at promoting child growth through teachers, school counselors, and parents’ work as a team by utilizing school and community resources. School Psychology provides important principles and concrete methods and practical tools in terms of how to approach children, how to support parents and teachers, school and community support systems.