Child Development Costa del Sol
Educational Psychology
What is Educational Psychology?
Educational Psychology is the application of psychological theory, research and techniques to support children, young people, their families and schools promote the emotional and social wellbeing of young people. Educational Psychologists (EPs) guide those with learning difficulties to achieve their full potential through the use of assessment, monitoring and evaluation.
Educational Psychologists are particularly skilled at using evidence-based, problem-solving techniques to understand the goal of a child's behaviour and what they are trying to communicate to others. EP's access strength-based and child-centered models to create intervention plans, in collaboration with the team around the child.
At Shine our Educational Psychologists are trained and highly experienced within the Non-Violent Resistance (NVR) approach. This approach supports families and educators experiencing distressed & distressing behaviour from children and young people. Interventions can involve parent groups, delivering various levels of training along with developing & implementing a whole school approach.
The Educational Psychologists within our team have achieved doctorate level education and follow the requirements of the British Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
Interventions include:
-
Consultations with parents/ carers and other professionals to discuss a child’s needs and how best to support them.
-
One-to-one child focused and small group interventions to promote a child's learning and emotional wellbeing (i.e. evidence-based therapeutic work for anger management/ anxiety management /sleep hygiene/ social communication difficulties/ executive function and concentration difficulties).
-
Detailed psychological and cognitive assessments to gather information about a child's needs (i.e. behavioural, learning or social-emotional) using methods such as observation, pupil interviews and cognitive/ learning assessments. Assessments result in a formal written report and a collaboratively agreed intervention plan.
-
Non-Violant and Resistance Parent Groups
-
Leading and/or participating in a range of multi-agency and multi-disciplinary panels and child-centred planning meetings.
-
Supporting staff development by delivering training, staff coaching and providing professional supervision for specialised interventions.
