Indian School Psychology Association

India is a multi cultural and multilingual developing country in the Asian subcontinent. It has multifaceted schooling systems which run by the state governments; both in urban and rural areas differ in many respects from the private English-medium schools that draw children by and large from economically prosperous families. Thus, the Indian setting today is characterized by the existence of schools of various standards. The children of these schools need proper psychological guidance to learn and acquire skills and abilities. School Psychologists alone can provide the necessary professional guidance to the children in schools. At present Indian schools are badly in need of such professional school psychologists to create an ambiance to teach and learn so as to provide desired high quality school education in the country.In India, academic psychology is predominantly dominated by the Western concepts and principles. The psychology graduates mostly get training on educational and clinical psychology.The Indian School Psychology Association is the need of the hour to help young and energetic psychologists to promote school psychology. To initiate the process the association has been started in Puducherry on 15th August, 2009.The Indian School Psychology Association shall be a voluntary non-profit educational service society.The primary aim of the association is to develop and promote School Psychology, Human Values-based education and training to meet the needs of society and particularly to elevate the poor from poverty through school education.