Characteristics of the school environment
Characteristics of the school environment

Author(s): Elżbieta Dryll
Subject(s): Psychology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: school as social system; competence of school psychologist; class monograph
Summary/Abstract: The school can be described as an open system, distinguishing the level of the whole, the level of subsystems (class, student council, sports group, pedagogical board) and the elementary level (a student, a teacher). At the overall level, the psychologist is concerned with the school climate. At the subsystem level, he/she carries out diagnostic (e.g. class monograph), prophylactic and intervention activities aimed at entire groups. At the elementary level, the psychologist consults individual problems of students or teachers. The more work he puts into caring for the higher levels of the system, the less problems and difficulties there will be at the elementary level. Each of these tasks requires specific skills and the psychologist’s authority. An authority is based on independence, high professional competences (knowledge, experience) and personal competences (respect, honesty, creativity and life wisdom).

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