Page No 9-21
R.S. Pirta
H. P. University, Shimla
The challenges before the school psychologist are broadly of two types. On the
one hand, a school psychologist has to offer mental health care, the need for
which is on the increase, which is credible, cost-effective, and which addresses
the social issues. At the same time, a school psychologist has to take up the
challenge of global problems, such as the issue of sustainable development, so
that he can expand the scope of psychology. If psychologists are not able to
provide a sound research base on which the school psychologist take pragmatic
decisions his professional competence is at stake. Today, globalization would
require ever more stringent and elaborate ethical and moral codes to regulate
interactions between living and non-living world so that cooperation, help and
altruism prosper. Therefore a new look on human nature, away from rationality,
where emotions have significant role to play, seems imperative.
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