Perceived needs of the functions of the educational Psychologist among teachers, principals, and parents of "Fe y Alegría" Educational Units in the city of Sucre (2023 - 2024)
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https://doi.org/10.52428/20758960.v16i40.1156Keywords:
Psychologist, perceived needsAbstract
In Bolivia, fiscal educational units and the majority of agreements lack items for Psychologists. Given this panorama, the general objective of the research is formulated: to establish the perceived needs towards the functions of the Educational Psychologist, in directors, teachers and parents of the Fe y Alegría educational Units of the city of Sucre. The research corresponds to the mixed approach, it followed deductive and inductive methods, it is descriptive, its design is non-experimental and transversal. A non-probabilistic sample of volunteer subjects was delimited, 4 directors, 44 teachers and 706 parents. The instruments were a Questionnaire, a Semi-structured Interview Question Guide and a Focus Group Question Guide. The majority of directors, teachers and parents of the initial levels in community family, primary vocational and secondary productive community of the educational units of Fe y Alegría of Sucre perceive it as very necessary for an educational psychologist to fulfill the functions of evaluating and intervening in specific student cases, intervene and advise students' families and advise and train teachers.
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