The Prospects for Psychology in Indian Schools

Abstract

From nursery school to senior secondary school, there is no position of school psychologist on the academic staff in the present school system in India. Among subject-teachers, the school psychologist is out of place because psychology as a course of study does not exist to high school level. Leaving apart the teaching of psychology, school psychologists do not exist to whom students affected by psychological problems could be referred for behaviour modification, relieving emotional disturbances, solving the learning difficulties of the learning disabled, or structuring and using special educational techniques for the mentally retarded.