ABSTRACT
With the public health model, school psychologists are giving psychology away to those who can have the broadest impact on the greatest number of individuals. Although adopting the Public Health Problem-Solving Model to the practice of psychology in the schools is a paradigm shift, there are many aspects of traditional school psychology that can be easily revised to support a public health practice of school psychology. These skill sets include: utilizing the problem-solving model to provide comprehensive children’s mental health services, utilizing consultation and collaboration to support the implementation of comprehensive children’s mental health services, utilizing consultation and collaboration to support the implementation of comprehensive children’s mental health services, and so on. The Response to Intervention movement and much individual consultation is based on the problem-solving model. Even if the Public Health Problem-Solving Model is within the existing skill set of most school psychologists, it still requires additional work and time.
