ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses some of the broader foundational issues that must also be in place to help school psychologists persist in their efforts over time. Ongoing monitoring is needed to determine whether their program is continuing to be implemented in the manner in which it was planned. Advocacy will be a part of psychologists’ role at each step as they are implementing the Public Health Problem-Solving Model. The first step as an advocate is simply to become involved. Advocacy, by its nature, involves risk. Hoefer describes two of the greatest advocacy skills as persuasion and negotiation. From the beginning, persuasion occurs when psychologists convince others that taking action and, ultimately, implementing their coalition’s plan of action is in their best interest. The negotiation reflects a basic form of communication that they use all of the time. Shriberg attempted to identify the meaning of social justice from a school psychology perspective.
