“…Although there is a substantial literature about novel EP practice (for example, Frederickson, 1990;Frederickson et al, 1991;Stoker, 1992;Gersch & Nolan, 1994;Gersch, 1996;Wolfendale, 1996;Burden, 1997;Monsen et al, 1998;Cline, 1999;Wagner, 2000), there is also evidence that traditional methods and approaches prevail (Thomson, 1996(Thomson, , 1998 and that change is necessary (Leyden, 1999). While the need for discontinuity has been recognised in education (Fullan & Stiegelbaur, Manuscript Fullan, 1993;Morrison, 1998), in business (Morgan, 1986(Morgan, , 1993Dawson, 1994;McWhinney, 1997) and in the public sector (Farnham & Horton, 1996;Lawton & Rose, 1991), there has been a relative dearth of literature on 'change' in professional educational psychology itself.…”