Educational psychology service
Training and development
The educational psychology service offers settings a range of training and staff or parent development. These may be recommended for a particular consultation or as part of a school or setting's development, or for parents and carers.
Wherever possible, training is delivered in partnership with other professionals to emphasise the importance of joint working and sharing useful experiences.
There's usually a meeting to discuss needs to help schools and other settings identify areas for development. Training needs could relate to planning development and/or to issues that arise during consultation with the psychologist. Training may include support for the development of strategies, support in the management of organisational change, or in development of organisational systems.
Examples of training and staff development
- differentiation and individual education plan training
- motivation and learning
- working memory
- early literacy skills
- conflict resolution and management
- positive approaches to behaviour management
- bullying and safety in school
- loss and bereavement
- working with children who are asylum seekers and/or refugees
- child development and adolescence
- awareness about special educational needs and disability issues
We help plan and deliver national initial training and placements for educational psychologists in training through links with courses at the University of Exeter, University of East London, the Institute of Education and others.
Research and projects
All our educational psychologists have a background in research methodology. Therefore, we have the necessary skills and experience to plan, develop and run research and projects to benefit pupils and settings.
We're keen to link with agencies and organisations to promote evidence-based practice.
The service has contributed to research including:
- the impact of grandparent involvement on achievement in African Caribbean families
- evaluating the effectiveness of e-learning for pupils not in educational provision
- a project around transition to settings with our specialist educational psychologist in the early years
- emotional intelligence and the impact on setting effectiveness
- partner in the Yale International study of achievement motivation
Research proposed for the future includes:
- a study of optimism as a resilience factor
- the child and adolescent mental health service (CAMHS) commissioned research from the University of Warwick on unmet needs, gaps and effective programmes to address gaps
- a study with the Sheldon Centre regarding care pathways and dyspraxia
- collecting and evaluating data on special educational needs and ethnicity within the borough
Page last updated: 15 September 2021
