achieving kent educational psychology service change 2013 ......2013/14 brochure includes new...

Kent Educational Psychology Service 2013/14 Brochure Includes new courses and services

Achieving change at every level

Our services Statutory services

Welcome – About us

Kent Educational Psychology Service (KEPS) offers a range of traded services and products that schools and other customers can purchase. These include:

• A guaranteed enhanced level of service for your school from a psychologist who knows you, bought on a yearly basis and tailored to your needs. You can arrange this through our Service Level Agreement packages.

• A range of highly regarded ‘pay as you go’ products and services . These include training events, courses and staff development programmes delivered by specialist presenters.

• Bespoke training events, interventions, projects, evaluation, research and enhanced service commissions that are flexible, delivered when you need them and competitively priced.

Benefits that you will see as a result of purchasing these services include:

• A protected service that you know is in place for your school without the need for further commissioning.

• Services that build on good professional relationships and expert knowledge.

• Services that make use of a detailed knowledge of your school and context.

• Improved staff confidence, knowledge and skills from programmes that we know work.

• School development work that fits your particular requirements and time scales.

• Project work that engages a wide range of multi-agency partners and resources with academic rigour to maximise outcomes.

• All psychologists employed by KEPS are registered with the national regulatory body for applied psychologists.

KEPS also provides statutory services for the Local Authority.

This includes psychological advice provided as part of a statutory assessment process, some consultation at Local Inclusion Forum Teams (LIFTS) for individual children and young people, Team Around the Family work and crisis support for schools.

Statutory functions are not charged, they are paid for directly by the Local Authority.

The benefits

Pay As You GoService Level AgreementsService Level Agreement packages are designed to reward bulk purchases. Pay As You Go gives more flexibility but is less cost effective.

Choose the package which suits your needs

Choose an individual service and pay the individual rate.An enhanced level of service for your school/group of schools can be set up through EduKent.

If you are interested in purchasing one of these packages you can request full information about our Service Level Agreement by contacting us or by visiting our pages on the EduKent website.

days per year£6,000.00

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(£250 per month)

Solution Focused Group Problem Solving

Processes to support organisational change and development

Consultation for an individual child or young person


Centrally organised training courses

School development and supporting change

Staff development – General

Staff development – Learning

Bespoke Consultation/Project/Training/Research commission

Staff development – Social, Emotional and Behavioural needs

Staff development – Communication and Interaction

Individual work with a child or young person

Our servicesChoose the service area you need. The services are then categorised as Essentials or Choices services.

Items in the Essentials range are available across the county to any school purchasing from Edukent.

Items in the Choices range are, at present, deliverable only by a limited number of Educational Psychologists specialising in the given field.

Having a three day Service Level Agreement has meant instant service tailored to our needs, I have been very impressed so far.

Julie Silk, Harrietsham Primary School

Very useful support from the Educational Psychologist in helping us understand the child’s needs and why behaviours are shown. These discussions led to better outcomes.

We have found having a Service Level Agreement hugely beneficial in helping us meet the needs of the children in our school. We often find that children’s emotional needs are unpredictable and can suddenly escalate given changing circumstances.

The Service Level Agreement allows us to access our Educational Psychologist when needs arise, this greater flexibility allows and help to come to solutions more quickly and effectively.

Discussions have also been hugely beneficial in helping develop staff in their understanding of the emotional needs of our children.

Helen Seeley, Priory Fields School

Our school has chosen a Service Level Agreement with the Psychology Service this year. It also gives opportunity for one Educational Psychologist to get to know our school well over time and so work collaboratively with us in a planned, well thought out way - all of which is better for the children.

Beth Fudge, Ashford Oaks Comunity School

Individual work with a child or young person

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Choices itemsEssential items

Consultation for an individual child or young person more

Educational Psychology advice for an individual child or young person more

Access Assessments for Secondary School pupils more

Individual intervention for anxiety: Cognitive Behavioural Approach more

Counselling for staff/pupils more

Legal reports more

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Consultation to discuss an individual child or young person or a group of pupils and gather information to inform joint problem solving and action planning. Includes writing a record of the consultation. When buying this service on a ‘pay as you go’ basis you can expect up to half a day spent on an initial consultation with a further half day for recording and review.

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Service Level Agreement time required: One day

Pay as you go price: From £600

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Detailed individual psychological advice informed by assessment to gain an understanding of psychological and educational functioning and needs. Price includes a detailed report of findings with recommendations for action and support taking around one and a half days.

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Service Level Agreement time required: One and a half days


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Educational Psychology advice for an individual child or young person

An assessment package for secondary schools involving assessment of individual pupils and completion of relevant paperwork ensuring that pupils have the appropriate current assessments to comply with the Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ) regulations.

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Service Level Agreement time required: One to two days

Pay as you go price: From £600 (two pupils) to £1200 (five pupils)

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Access Assessments for Secondary School pupils

A set of 8-10 hours working with an individual child who is experiencing high levels of anxiety. The package can include:• Initial consultation with staff and family planning the intervention• Initial meeting with the young person to support suitability and pre intervention measures• Up to 8 sessions of direct intervention using an appropriate level of Cognitive

Behavioural Approach (CBA) in school/child’s setting• Mid consultation with staff and family• Follow up consultation to evaluate

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Service Level Agreement time required: Initial consultation is one hour, up to five days for the full package

Pay as you go price: From £100 (initial consultation only) to £3000

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Individual intervention for anxiety: Cognitive Behavioural Approach

This provision could be 6 – 10 sessions per client according to identified need. It can include grief and loss counselling.

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Service Level Agreement time required: One day to one and a half days

Pay as you go price: From £600 to £900

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Counselling for staff/pupils

Assessment, report and advice on the impact of children’s/young people’s needs (language, communication, behaviour, emotional) on their ability to function within the family, within the school setting and in a Court proceedings environment.

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Service Level Agreement time required: Two to three days

Pay as you go price: £1200 to £1800

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Legal reports

Staff development – Social, Emotional and Behavioural needs


Whole School Approaches To Behaviour Management more

Circle of Friends more

Solihull Approach for schools more

Cognitive Behavioural Approaches (CBA) for anxiety more

Whole School Nurture Approach Training more

Assessing emotional literacy and emotional development more

Non-Violent Resistance more

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1-3 day whole school INSET incorporating individual, group and whole school approaches to positive behaviour management.

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Service Level Agreement time required: One and a half days to five and a half days


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Whole School Approaches To Behaviour Management

Training and follow up support to enable schools to implement and run this effective intervention.

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Circle of Friends

Training your school in the Solihull Approach will not only develop staff skills in engaging more effectively with young people and their families but it also provides them with a shared language to describe their work (vital for multi-agency working), increases their understanding of how emotional and behavioural difficulties develop within families and helps them identify trigger points for early referral to other specialist services.

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Service Level Agreement time required: One day to three and a half days

Pay as you go price: From £600 to £2,100

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Solihull Approach for schools

The CBA course for Anxiety can be provided over one day or as four twilight sessions and comprises:• Characteristics and impact of anxiety difficulties• Introduction to CBA• Identification, assessment and intervention planning• Development of skills and knowledge using CBA.

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Pay as you go price: £600

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Cognitive Behavioural Approaches (CBA) for anxiety

Training that incorporates the nurture group approach with information and practical ideas relating to active listening, motivation and emotional literacy. This training can be particularly relevant for staff who are supporting looked after children.

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Whole School Nurture Approach Training

A training session that explores methods of assessing and monitoring emotional literacy and children’s emotional development.

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Assessing emotional literacy and emotional development

Non-Violent Resistance (NVR) is an approach to violent, aggressive, controlling and dangerous behaviour in children and young people. It offers parents, teachers and the wider community ways to stop a child’s violent and risk-taking behaviour without leading to escalation. This package can include a half day introduction, a supported demonstration of the intervention so that staff can learn the approach and ongoing supported working with a family for an extended period.

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Service Level Agreement time required: Half a day introduction to five days for the full package


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Non-Violent Resistance

Training to develop a whole school approach to managing behaviour by building, nurturing and repairing relationships. This training is for staff who are responsible for supporting pupils with diverse needs. In particular children with behavioural, emotional and social needs.

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Service Level Agreement time required: Five days

Pay as you go price: A set of five training sessions £3000

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Restorative Approaches

Staff development – Learning


School-based assessment more

Precision Teaching more

Sound Progress more

Developing working memory and learning more

Supporting Children With Gaps In Their Mathematical Understanding more

Learning and Instructional Preferences more

Spelling Programme more

Mediated Learning more

Sounds-Write Literacy Approach more


This two-session INSET, one session delivered a term later than the first, explores the nature of assessment: Constraints and positives; standardised and diagnostic testing; interpretation of results; programme and curriculum delivery; review and evaluation.

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School-based assessment

This training provides an opportunity for staff to learn to use precision teaching as a flexible technique to support pupils who need extra opportunities to develop fluency and accuracy with basic knowledge and / or skills. It consists of a one hour input and a one hour follow up session.

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Service Level Agreement time required: Half a day


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Precision Teaching

Sound Progress is a tool which provides opportunities for distributed practice and detailed assessment information about a pupil’s phoneme level skills. The training will provide some theory and opportunities to use the materials that can be downloaded free at www.kent.gov.uk/educationalpsychology. Follow up sessions provide a forum for problem solving and reflecting on and developing practice.

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Service Level Agreement time required: One day to three and a half days

Pay as you go price: From £600 to £2,100

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Sound Progress: Precision teaching for literacy

Approximately 10% of children have difficulties with working memory and this can impact on their ability to make progress across the curriculum. In fact, working memory difficulties have been found to be a more accurate predictor for low attainment than IQ scores.

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Developing working memory and learning

A one day INSET delivered to schools to help teachers understand some of the difficulties that children have with early mathematical development. This then leads on to individual and whole school approaches to support vulnerable students. Dyscalculia, dyslexia and non-verbal learning disability are also explored as some of the underlying causes.

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Supporting Children With Gaps In Their Mathematical Understanding

A one day INSET for schools to help teachers understand how children learn and consequently how best to support their learning. It draws upon cognitive psychology and school-based experience including within-child and environmental factors.

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Learning and Instructional Preferences

This is a morning session INSET to staff working with children to raise their spelling skills. It is based on the Neuro Linguistic Programming spelling strategy and Cued Spelling Approach. It can also be run with a group of students.

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Spelling Programme

A training course for staff . Content includes; the cognitive abilities of the learner, factors affect learning (eg motivation and ability to manage challenging situations) and the teaching approach. The training focuses on how the learner responds to the range of teaching and mediation styles and analysis of the characteristics of the learning task. The training makes reference to assessment tools that are used by Educational Psychologists such as the Cognitive Abilities Profile.

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Service Level Agreement time required: Half a day to one and a half days


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Mediated Learning

This support is aimed at schools where staff have already undergone the four or five day Sounds-Write training. Support can include staff meetings, monitoring sessions and refresher training. (Please note that this support cannot replace the four day teacher training.)

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Sounds-Write Literacy Approach

Staff development – Communication and Interaction


Social communication difficulties in school more

Video Interaction Guidance: Training and supervision in using the approach more

Video Interaction Guidance: A tool for staff development more

Social Stories Workshop more

Communicating with Children and Young People short course more

Language difficulties in the classroom more


This half-day or full-day INSET explores the continuum of social communication difficulties; specific needs and strategies, curriculum delivery and programmes.

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Service Level Agreement time required: Half a day to one day


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Social communication difficulties in school

A long term commitment, these packages are for practitioners in school who would like to train to use Video Interaction Guidance themselves. Full details and detailed costs are available on request.

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Service Level Agreement time required: Half a day for initial training to four days for a full package of training and supervision

Pay as you go price: From £300 to £2400

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Video Interaction Guidance: Training and supervision in using the approach

Video Interaction Guidance (VIG) can be used to support staff (teacher, teaching assistants and others) who are working with children and young people in any situation where there are barriers to effective communication, such as social communication difficulties, emotional and behavioural difficulties or hearing difficulties. A typical intervention will consist of three meetings with the Educational Psychologists to look at video together.

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Service Level Agreement time required: One day to two days

Pay as you go price: From £600 to £1,200 Prices will be lower where more staff take part

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Video Interaction Guidance: A tool for staff development

An overview for parents/carers and staff of how to write Social Stories and the opportunity to practice writing these. Social Stories are a cheap and cost effective intervention for supporting pupils with particular social situations that they are struggling with. They are of benefit to all children and young people, not just those with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Follow up session and evaluation is also available.

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Social Stories Workshop

Communicating with Children (CwC) offers practitioners an opportunity to enhance their professional skills in addressing the emotional and communication needs of children and young people.The course is based on Video Interaction Guidance (VIG), an approach which improves communication and interaction through viewing and discussing short video recordings of real-life situations which show the practitioner engaged in successful interactions with a child or group of children.

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Service Level Agreement time required: Three days

Pay as you go price: £1,800

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Communicating with Children and Young People short course

This one session INSET explores the development of language; receptive and expressive language difficulties; speech difficulties; assessment, programme and curriculum delivery.

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Language difficulties in the classroom

Staff development – General


Attachment and learning in the classroom more

Video Enhanced Reflective Practice more

School Based Reviews more

INSET on transition from primary to secondary school more

Childhood education and epilepsy more

Adolescent development learning and behaviour more

Person-Centred Planning more


The attachments children form with key adults affect their development. This training provides insight in to how the brain learns and encourages reflection on how this translates into practice in the classroom. It uses video and activities to support learning.

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Attachment and learning in the classroom

Video Enhanced Reflective Practice (VERP) is an effective way of enhancing the way you work. If you work with children, young people or adults and your communication and interaction with them can be difficult sometimes VERP may be useful. A VERP course begins with a training session and is followed by three small group reflective sessions held over the next few weeks led by a trained guider.

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Service Level Agreement time required: Two days


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Video Enhanced Reflective Practice

The School Based Review is a consultation held at your school, chaired by the school and attended by your Educational Psychologist. Other professionals can be invited to the meeting as necessary. The agenda can be around individual children, groups of children or whole school issues. The purpose of these meetings is to facilitate problem solving discussions in order to agree ways of enhancing inclusive practice.

A package of three School Based Reviews can be purchased for £900. Normally time bought for School Based Reviews can only be used for that purpose.

Service Level Agreement time required: One and a half days

Pay as you go price: £900 for three School Based Reviews

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School Based Reviews

A half-day or full-day INSET that explores the psychology of change within the context of child development; curriculum delivery and networking with parents and other schools.

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INSET on transition from primary to secondary school

Half-day training that provides an introduction to epilepsy including different kinds of seizures and what to do if a seizure occurs in school. The training also covers how epilepsy affects learning and behaviour and what can be done to support these children in school.

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Childhood education and epilepsy

This half-day or full-day training event looks at the science of adolescent development and sets out the implications for learning, behaviour and wellbeing.

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Adolescent development, learning and behaviour

Person-Centred Planning uses tools and approaches to help people identify practical supports and action to ensure inclusion. This can be particularly important at key times of schooling such as transition.

Person-Centred Planning explores the young person’s aspirations and hopes. It identifies the young person’s skills, talents and gifts and who (eg parents/carers, peers, school staff) can support the young person to achieve their aspirations.

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Person-Centred Planning

School development and supporting change


Creative Problem Solving for Organisations and Teams more

Processes to support organisational change and development more

Solution Focused Group Problem Solving more

Drop-in sessions for staff or parents more

Executive Coaching for staff more

Supervision more

Solihull Parenting Course more

Families First more

Solution Oriented Coaching for Success more

Coaching Families, Individual Children and Young People more

Solution Oriented Reflective Practice more

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In order to help groups who are “stuck” to identify and embrace ways forward which utilise all the team’s strengths, psychologists can offer a variety of proven techniques.

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Creative Problem Solving for Organisations and Teams

Whole school development and organisational change can be supported by psychologists who might utilise a range of processes such as Force Field Analysis, Soft Systems Methodology and Appreciative Inquiry.

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Processes to support organisational change and development

In view of the complexity of needs presented by children in mainstream schools and the fact that the support for these children is provided by ALL school staff this approach is aimed at groups of around 6 to 8 people with differing roles in school. The emphasis is on solution talk rather than problem talk and focuses on empowering the ‘problem presenter’ rather than solving their problem for them. It is an effective vehicle for change

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Solution Focused Group Problem Solving

A regular session offered to teachers or parents to meet an Educational Psychologist and talk about issues or concerns they would like to raise in a short, focused discussion.

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Pay as you go price: £300 per session

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Drop-in sessions for staff or parents

A 6 session package for individuals, senior managers and staff who have a high motivation to change for the better. This is not therapy or consultation but a coaching approach based on coaching psychology. Individuals will be given opportunities to set motivating goals, explore some of the previous obstacles and look at ways forward for achieving goals and staying on top of their game.

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Service Level Agreement time required: Three days


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Executive Coaching for staff

Supervision

Supervision is administrative, educational and supportive and as such is central to professional development. It provides a container that holds the helping relationship and facilitates the development of the supervisee through reflection and empowerment. Children and young people with increasingly complex and challenging needs are supported by a range of professionals in a range of settings including mainstream school. Effective supervision will support these individuals in meeting the needs of children and young people while promoting competence and confidence.

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Current price estimate 1) £600 for nine hours2) £600 for six hours3) £300 for three hours

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A 10-week programme of group sessions for parents. This can be commissioned by a school, allowing staff in school to co-deliver the training and develop their own group facilitation skills.

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Solihull Parenting Course

Families First is a solution focused approach that offers families who are “stuck” an opportunity to consider their own strengths and to find their own solutions, rather than relying on outside intervention. A school can commission this intervention for families of children who attend that school.The school is required to nominate its own workers and would provide administration. An Educational Psychologist would train the workers and provide pre- and post-session supervision.

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Service Level Agreement time required: Two days

Pay as you go price: From £1,200

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Families First

Solution Oriented Coaching uses the principles of solution oriented approaches to support people in thinking about solutions and possibilities and considering personal resources which can help them achieve their individual goals.Sixth form students attend two whole day training sessions with Educational Psychologists and engage in a highly interactive workshop in order to develop coaching skills. This is followed by a closely supervised half day role play training session. The course also includes three one hour follow-up reflective sessions.

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Service Level Agreement time required: Four days


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Solution Oriented Coaching for Success

This is a six-session package for families who have a high motivation to change for the better. This is not therapy or consultation but a coaching approach based on coaching psychology and conflict resolution. Each session will last for one hour and be conducted over the course of twelve weeks. This programme is also available for individual students.

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Service Level Agreement time required: Four days


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Coaching Families, Individual Children and Young People

The Reflective Practice forum is a space for selected practitioners to come together in small groups, to share ideas, generate solutions and reflect on issues that are of mutual interest or concern in relation to their practice, with Educational Psychologists to facilitate discussion.

This is a model for useful and refreshing meetings. Using this model, the team builds its spirit whilst getting on with the job in hand. The Solution Oriented Reflective Team model is structured in a way which is containing and supportive. Reflecting Team applications are varied and can be used according to context and application.

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Pay as you go price: £600 per session

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Solution Oriented Reflective Practice

Educational Psychologists have extensive skills and knowledge in facilitating change at different levels, whether it is for individual children, young people and families or with groups of staff and whole teams in organisations like schools. If you are wanting to develop your capacity to deal with the problems and challenges you face, consider speaking to an Educational Psychologist.

Topics might include:• Special Educational Needs (SEN) and inclusion• Strategies for vulnerable groups of pupils in school• Teaching and learning• Positive behaviour management and pastoral care• Evaluating the impact of interventions you use• Skills audits, bespoke training packages, coaching and staff groups• Small scale research to help you understand your school• Engaging parents.

If you are planning to spend more than £500 we offer a free initial commissioning meeting to discuss your needs and will then provide costed options for you to choose from.

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Bespoke Consultation/Project/Training/Research commission

Kent Educational Psychology Service (KEPS) runs a number of centrally organised training courses. These courses are available through CPD online. Courses are typically run two or three times a year, depending on demand. If you are interested in having any of the courses provided to your school or group of schools, please contact us to make arrangements. Prices for such events are costed individually.

• Grief and Loss in schools.• Video Interaction Guidance (initial training)• Autism Spectrum Disorders.• Children with long term and persistent difficulties with literacy.• Emotionally Based School Refusal for schools

Check CPD online for other course titles.

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Centrally organised training courses

Choose the range which suits your needs

Items in the Essentials range are available across the county to any school purchasing from Edukent. They can be delivered by a number of psychologists who work for KEPS and generally we can guarantee prompt responses to requests for these products.

Items in the Choices range are, at present, only deliverable by a smaller number of Educational Psychologists. This might be because of particular training required or skills and knowledge that the psychologist might need. Items in this range may have more limited availability or may only be available in certain parts of the county.

Service Level Agreement

Pay As You Go

The Essentials range The Choices range

We have two ranges, both of which can be bought from either a Service Level Agreement or on a Pay As You Go basis.

Email: [email protected]

Tel: 0300 333 64 27

Web: www.kent.gov.uk/educationalpsychology

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