Educational psychology to debate in our country: a crossroads to any alternative solutions.

Abstract

Since its inception, the figure of the educational psychologist in our country, and especially in relation to his professional career, has been subject to the different laws that have governed the Spanish educational system based on very different criteria and ranging from the General Law of education up to the LOE and, most recently, the LOMCE. At the present time, we have serious problems and dilemmas facing our profession and specialized  psychological training. These problems directly affect the mismatch between the vocational training of the educational psychologist and its adaptation to the demands of the labor market, many of them non-specific or agglutinated under one umbrella of  educational guidance. On the other hand, the problems affect various models of training, sometimes with opposing objectives developed through a master's degree in educational psychology. This article will address these problems together with some of the initiatives that organizations endorsed by the COP have taken  place in recent years and trying to respond to the major challenges related to training, accreditation processes, and the role of the psychologist in the Spanish educational system as well as the convergence criteria they are looking for in Europe among professional associations such as the EFPA.