{"id":310,"date":"2011-12-01T14:12:02","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T14:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/PsychologicalService\/?page_id=310"},"modified":"2026-08-13T11:03:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T11:03:54","slug":"our-role","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/PsychologicalService\/service-information\/our-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Becoming an Educational Psychologist"},"content":{"rendered":"

The role of the Educational Psychologist is distinctive and important in helping children and young people overcome barriers to their learning.\u00a0 Local authorities are statutorily obliged to provide an educational psychology service under the Education (Scotland) Act (1980).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Educational Psychology is a discipline with skilled, professionally trained, creative members who continue to effectively apply psychology that will help children and young people overcome barriers to their learning, and consequently have a positive impact on families, communities and the professionals with whom they work.<\/span><\/p>\n

In Scotland, Educational Psychologists must complete a Psychology (hons) degree at 2:1 level or above and have at least two years work experience with children, young people or families before applying to the Doctorate in Applied Educational Psychology <\/span>at the University of Dundee. <\/span><\/p>\n

University of Dundee Doctorate in Applied Educational Psychology <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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The role of the Educational Psychologist is distinctive and important in helping children and young people overcome barriers to their learning.\u00a0 Local authorities are statutorily obliged to provide an educational psychology service under the Education (Scotland) Act (1980).\u00a0 Educational Psychology is a discipline with skilled, professionally trained, creative members who continue to effectively apply psychology […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3764,"featured_media":0,"parent":1162,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-310","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/PsychologicalService\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/PsychologicalService\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/PsychologicalService\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/PsychologicalService\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3764"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/PsychologicalService\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/PsychologicalService\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2412,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/PsychologicalService\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/310\/revisions\/2412"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/PsychologicalService\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/PsychologicalService\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}