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Information and registration for upcoming webinars
Thursday 27th February 2025 4.30pm - 5pm
Title: “It Takes a Village to Raise a Child”: A Whole System Approach to Developing Resilience in Education (RESTA and RESO) with Dr Esther Borrett
Overview: On January 7th, 2025, the BBC published an article titled "Child Mental Health Crisis: Better Resilience is the Solution," highlighting the increasing mental health issues among young people in the UK, including rising cases of anxiety, depression, and self-harm. Experts in the article suggested that building resilience, rather than solely focusing on mental health awareness, could be key to addressing this crisis.
In this webinar, Dr. Esther Borrett will explain her research on educational resilience and discuss why developing resilience is seen as a sustainable approach to help young people thrive despite adversity. She will describe an intervention for schools and colleges that views resilience as a skill that can be nurtured over time through intervention and support. This intervention, named the Resilience Support Teaching Assistant (RESTA), along with its whole school approach (RESO), involves training school staff to embed resilience-building practices into school curriculums and cultures. Dr. Borrett will outline the context of the intervention, its use, and its impact, as well as discuss future developments.
Dr Esther Borrett - Brimstone Psychology, Founder of Resilience Support Teaching Assistants
Wednesday 26th March 2025 4.30pm - 5.00pm
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Title: Understanding the views of children with complex learning and communication needs with Dr Kate Farmer
Overview: In this webinar, I will tell you about my doctoral research exploring how adults understand the views of children with complex learning and communication needs who are not yet using a formal communication system. I will tell you about my work with one special school and how I took a social constructionist perspective to explore the relationship between child and adult as communication partners when an adult infers meaning and interprets a child’s communicative intent. I will offer some practical suggestions from my research for adults seeking to understand the views of children and young people with complex learning and communication needs.
Wednesday 30th April 2025 4.30pm - 5.00pm
*different day*
Unveiling Therapeutic Thinking’s Impact on School Behaviour with Dr Ellie Crook
Overview: Dr. Ellie Crook is a passionate Child and Educational Psychologist working in Cambridgeshire, she is dedicated to transforming the way schools approach behaviour. Her doctoral research, Unveiling Therapeutic Thinking’s Impact on School Behaviour: A Realist Evaluation, highlighted both the factors that drive success and the barriers that hinder meaningful systemic change. This research fuelled her to deepen her understanding of behaviourist approaches in education, particularly in light of the ongoing use—and government endorsement—of harmful practices. If awareness of their detrimental impact were widespread, these methods would no longer persist. In this session, Dr. Ellie will share key insights from her research before shifting to a passionate call for urgent reform.
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Please get in touch with us if you would like to present your work. We love providing the space for people to share and celebrate the work they are doing to support children and young people.
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We are very excited to host an ongoing series of webinars focused on the environment - including wellbeing in nature, climate change and what we can do as EPs, educators and parents / carers... Visit the EP Reach-Out YouTube channel to watch the webinars already presented.
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to the EP Reach-Out webinar series
‘An idea needs a containing presence and EP Reach-Out provides a space to share, explore and think about ideas together’
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EP Reach-Out hosts weekly webinars via Zoom and live streamed on YouTube on a Thursday afternoon 4pm - 4.30pm.
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We have 160+ webinars available which you can watch on our YouTube channel. Please click on the button below.
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Educational Psychology (EP) Reach-Out was created by Dr Nicole Schnackenberg and Dr Sarah Sivers in April 2020 in their role as Educational Psychologists working for Southend-on-Sea Educational Psychology Service (EPS). EP Reach-Out was developed in response to the changes in working brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic, with the hope of building online connections in a time of physical distance. EP Reach-Out is still going strong 3 years later and we have recently welcomed a group of volunteers, who will help us keep EP Reach-Out innovative and exciting.
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EP Reach-Out is aimed at young people, families, education settings, trainee Educational Psychologists, Educational Psychologists, aspiring Educational Psychologists and other professionals including social care, occupational therapy and child and adolescent mental health services.
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The aim of EP Reach-Out is to ‘reach out’, share and learn from psychological theory, research and insights on a range of topics. EP Reach-Out is a community of practice welcoming friends from across the world to present and view the webinars. We are so grateful for the connections and friendships we have made through hosting EP Reach-Out.
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EP Reach-Out collaborates with the wonderful Dan O'Hare and team at edpsy.org.uk This involves linking webinars and blog posts to give a wider audience to the innovative research, projects and ideas being created by education professionals. Read more about our collaboration in this edpsy & EP Reach-Out blog
We would also like to thank the Association of Educational Psychologists (AEP) for their support in promoting the webinars.
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EP Reach-Out continues to have a close connection with Southend EPS and the Southend-on-Sea City community; we appreciate their support, which has been provided from the very start of this project. We are also very proud to have written a journal article (Sivers and Schnackenberg, 2021) and a book chapter (Schnackenberg, Sivers & Powell-Davies, 2022) which provides an overview and evaluation of EP Reach-Out.
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EP Reach-Out invites you to join us and Share-Connect-Learn
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Recommended webinar
This is a beautifully presented webinar providing ideas to gently support children to ask for help. Dr Mary Stanley-Duke, with the support of her rabbits, gives an overview of 3 skills (ANT) that parents (and teachers) can use. There is an emphasis on listening, scaffolding and working together. Really useful and useable ideas.
Reviewed by Sarah - September 2022
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