The Israeli School Psychologist

Abstract

This study investigated the role perception and level of job satisfaction of Israeli school psychologists. A total of 1113 (873 women and 240 men) school psychologists participated in the study. Each participant was asked to fill out a questionnaire addressing four central aspects of the school psychologist's job: personal and professional background information, information regarding their job performance, preferred activities and further education preferences and information regarding the level of satisfaction from different aspects of the job. The questioning of most of the school psychologists in Israel allowed us to achieve a complete sense of what the school psychologists do and how they experience their job. Our findings showed that most Israeli school psychologists wish to practice as clinicians and prefer to spend most of their time working with children in individual therapy, counselling their parents, and to a certain extent, consulting teachers. However, both job perception and satisfaction were found to vary as a function of level of expertise.