Louise J. Privette, a retired school psychologist and adjunct professor at Grand Canyon University, is the co-author of Dancing Through Life: A Memoir. She served as executive editor of the Fifth Inkslingers Anthology: Many Worlds, Many Stories.
Louise holds a doctorate in counseling psychology from Argosy University. She earned her undergraduate degree in psychology and her master’s plus certification at Arizona State University.
As the 2015-16 president of the Arizona Association of School Psychologists (AASP), Louise wrote a monthly column for Intervention, the official newsletter of AASP. During her thirty years as a school psychologist, she published Freudian Slips, a monthly newsletter for the faculty. In 2001, Louise received the Arizona School Psychologist of the Year Award from AASP.
In her spare time, Louise pursues her passions for ballroom dancing, writing, and oil painting. She volunteers as a Goodyear Arts Commissioner and enjoys traveling with her husband, John, a retired Southwest pilot and retired Air Force colonel. You can reach her at louiseprivette.com.
Louise’s latest book, School Psychologists: From Surviving to Thriving, will be released soon.
In addition to being charming, personal, and inspirational, this book offers a boots-on-the-ground perspective that beginning students and early career school psychologists cannot easily find elsewhere. It uses the words and stories of actual practitioners and does not shy away from genuine challenges inherent in the job. The contributors come from diverse practice settings and represent different stages in their professional lives. The vignettes cover many topics, some of which do not appear in the published professional literature. For these reasons, there should be a place for it in graduate training programs and among early career school psychologists.
– David L. Wodrich, PhD, Founder of Clinic-School Press, LLC; Professor Emeritus of Disability and Psychoeducational Studies, University of Arizona
