Discussion paper -School Psychologist and Sports Psychologist
School psychologists as the name suggest they work within the school environment to ascertain that students with mental issues are well taken care of. As such, they work within the school by coming up with conceptions that may avail these students progress along with their daily cognition activities. Therefore, their obligations involve assessing and coming up with developing scholastic plans and individual programs for such students that are under their consultations. However, these school psychologists can work as either permanent employees or consultative employees of the institutions who only come to offer their accommodations at a specific time of the day on a weekly basis. In this case, they are expected to take care of the various minor issues that may be affecting the students. Besides that, they should additionally be able to take care of critical mental issues that affect such students (Mascret, Elliot, & Cury, 2017).
However, in contrary, the clinical psychologists deal with the already mentally affected patients. They are also responsible for attending to other critical issues within the healthcare facility. Their routine is fine-tuned within a facility and they are in most cases perpetual employees of such institutions. Their goals are much wider as compared to the goals of the school psychologists. Besides that, they incline to mostly lean their focus on the mental issues affecting the cognition process and the already diagnosed persons (Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2014).
On the other hand, the sports psychology is an expert that deals with the athletes to ensure that their mental-stability is fine. For instance, they must ascertain that the athletes are mentally prepared before going into the competition. They also have developed a program in which the affected athletes have to adhere to for assistance that can help them. Therefore, in this case, their main objective and focus are to assist the athletes into achieving their goals, along with helping them maintain their mental stability in cases where they are mentally disturbed (Gill, Williams, & Reifsteck, 2017).
References
Gill, D., Williams, L., & Reifsteck, E. (2017). Psychological dynamics of sport and exercise. Human Kinetics.
Mascret, N., Elliot, A. J., & Cury, F. (2017). The 3× 2 achievement goal questionnaire for teachers. Educational Psychology, 37(3), 346-361.
Seligman, M. E., & Csikszentmihalyi, M. (2014). Positive psychology: An introduction. In Flow and the foundations of positive psychology (pp. 279-298). Springer Netherlands
