ABPP School Psychology study guide
ABPP School Psychology · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
ABPP School Psychology board certification is a specialty credential for psychologists who practice in school psychology. According to the American Board of Professional Psychology, its mission is to serve the public by promoting quality psychological services through examination and certification of professional psychologists engaged in specialty practice. The ABPP School Psychology study guide has 5 sections and about 1,626 words.
01Foundations of School Psychology: Law, Theory, and Role
School psychology practice sits on a stack of federal statutes that questions love to swap. IDEA (successor to PL 94-142, 1975) funds special education and guarantees FAPE, LRE, child find, related services, and procedural safeguards across disability categories; eligibility requires a disability, adverse educational impact, and need for specially designed instruction.
333 words, about 2 min02Assessment and Intervention: Scores, Decisions, and Evidence
Know the metric system cold: most cognitive and achievement composites use mean 100, SD 15; subtests mean 10, SD 3; T-scores mean 50, SD 10. A standard score is an interval, not a point-report the confidence band built from the SEM.
346 words, about 2 min03Consultation and Collaboration: Models, Stages, and Resistance
Consultation is an indirect, triadic service: the consultant works through the consultee to benefit a client or system. Know Caplan's four types-client-centered case, consultee-centered case, program-centered administrative, and consultee-centered administrative-and Bergan's behavioral consultation sequence: problem identification, problem analysis, plan implementation, problem evaluation.
291 words, about 1 min04Systems, Policy, and Prevention: Tiers, Discipline, and Safety
Systems work follows a public health logic: universal/primary prevention for everyone, selective/secondary for at-risk groups, indicated/tertiary for individuals with current need. MTSS and PBIS operationalize this in tiers, expecting roughly 80% of students to succeed at Tier 1, 15% to need Tier 2, and 5% to need Tier 3.
326 words, about 2 min05Ethics and Practice Management: Consent, Records, and Judgment
Know the NASP Principles for Professional Ethics: respect for the dignity and rights of all persons, professional competence, honesty and integrity in professional relationships, and responsibility to schools, families, communities, the profession, and society. APA's aspirational principles and enforceable standards apply when you function as a psychologist.
330 words, about 2 min