Barnsley Educational, Child and Community Psychology Service
Example areas of our work:
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD); Autistic Spectrum Conditions (ASC) - anger management - anti-social behaviour - attachment difficulties - anxious school refuser - bereavement and loss - challenging behaviour - developing social skills and friendships - emotional literacy - depression/low mood - harmful sexual behaviour - perceived bullying - risk of exclusion - experience of domestic abuse - self -efficacy - self-esteem - self-injurious behaviour.
Individual level work
We work therapeutically with a pupil to address one or more of the issues listed above. Therapeutic areas include cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), narrative therapy, personal construct, and solution focused approaches, and therapeutic stories.
- Observation of pupil with a presenting difficulty and subsequent consultation with key people in the pupil's life
- functional behavioural analysis of young person in context
- Individual pupil risk assessment
- Individual sessions to plan how to improve social skills
- Develop 'social stories' to enable individual pupils to access particular social situations
Group level work
We work therapeutically with a pupil to address one or more of the issues listed above. Therapeutic areas include CBT, narrative therapy, personal construct, and solution focused approaches, and therapeutic stories.
- Delivery of nurture groups to address the development of social skills and communication/ language development
- Circle of friends group intervention
Organisational and strategic work
*1 hour twilight, ½ day or full day training/workshops in the following areas:
- enhancing pupil self-efficacy
- enhancing pupil self-esteem
- enhancing pupil emotional literacy
- supporting pupils experiencing bereavement
- supporting anxious school refusers
- managing/supporting pupils with ADHD
- managing/supporting pupils with ASC
- managing/supporting pupils with attachment difficulties/disorders
- supporting pupils who display self-injurious behaviour
- depression/low mood
- managing extreme and challenging behaviour