Psychologists and Social Workers will be grouped together for the purpose of excessing when they are providing a related service.
The cascade would be as follows:
- regularly appointed guidance counselors
- regularly appointed psychologists and social workers
- teacher on waiver to be guidance counselor
- teacher on waiver to be psychologist or social worker
- substitute guidance counselor
- substitute psychologist or social worker
*Excessing is in reverse order 6-5-4-3-2-1*
It is understood that no clinicians will be excessed from a school if that will leave students unserved or underserved.