The Role of the Psychologist in education

Abstract

In this paper, being the individual-environment interactions the nuclear facts of the educational phenomenon, the psychological analyses and intervention are viewed as a necessary piece in educational tasks. Psycologists, however, cannot forget that other analyses and interventions are as much necessary as theirs, and must participate in an interdisciplinary and multiprofessional process of intervention: This exigence, as much as the faét that psychologists have not the social mandate to directly manipulate the conditions where educational interactions take place, impel us to vindicate a modality of intervention: indirect intervention, which is considered to be the most appropriate one to canalize the professional activity of psychologists in the educational field. In this modality, psychologists, by means of a technological process of adaptation, transferthe current psychological knowledge to the professionals (or no-professionals) directly involved with educational interactions.