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Kay Beisse is an Assistant Professor in the School Psychology program. Kay has a M.Ed. degree in School Psychology from Western Washington University and a Ph.D. degree in Educational Psychology from the University of Washington. She has also completed post-graduate clinical training in marriage and family therapy. Kay has 25 years of experience as a school psychologist in Washington State where most recently she provided a variety of assessment, consultation, and counseling services in a K-8 parent cooperative school in the Edmonds School District. Kay’s research interests have been in the areas of children’s social-emotional development and temperament. She is also interested in the application of ecological models to assessment and intervention in schools and in the development of school psychologists as educational leaders and agents of systemic change.
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Kristin Guest is a Professor and Coordinator of the School Psychology Program. Her background is in secondary education (speech and French), and she has a Master's degree in Communications and a Ph.D. in School Psychology from the University of Wisconsin. Kristin worked as a school psychologist in grades K-12 in Wisconsin and New Hampshire before moving to Seattle. After time off to start her family, she taught part-time at Bellevue Community College and Seattle University, joining the S.U. faculty on a full-time basis when the School Psychology program began in 1981, and assuming the role of program coordinator in 1995. She is interested and has published in the areas of schools as caring communities, motivation, career development of school psychologists, and personality type and teacher retention. Kristin also teaches in the Master in Teaching program.
Additional Faculty with major roles in the School Psychology program include faculty in the Counseling Program and in Special Education.
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