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The Dissenter · 2025-02-06 · 75 min · 11,241 words

#1055 Michael Axelrod - Pseudoscience, Fringe Science, and Controversies in School Psychology

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Hello, everyone. Welcome to a new episode of the The Center. I'm your host, as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Michael Exorov, he is director of the Human Development Center and a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin. On Wisconsin Oak Claire, he's the re is editor of investigating school psychology, pseudo science, fringe science. and controversies, and that's the book we're going to talk about today. So Doctor Exelrod, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to have you on. Thank you for having me. So let me start by asking you perhaps a general question. So in the book you deal with school psychology.

What is school psychology exactly, and how does it relate to other subfields in psychology, like, for example, educational psychology? So school psychology is uh an applied field in psychology. And so uh what school psychologists generally do is provide um different types of services to children Our students, teachers, parents.

Um, even uh sort of even administrative level types of services. So some of the services that are most common. our uh assessment services Here in the United States, for example, school psychologists often lead the assessment team to make decisions regarding students and uh the um

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