{"id":117,"date":"2019-12-13T10:57:10","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T10:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/healthierminds\/?page_id=117"},"modified":"2024-08-06T13:50:58","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T13:50:58","slug":"educational-psychology-service","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/healthierminds\/how-and-when-agencies-can-help\/educational-psychology-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Educational Psychology Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff9900\"><strong>Universal<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080\">Educational Psychologists promote a relationship &#8211; based approach to support adults to meet the needs of\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000080\">children and young people. They consider developmental, learning, environmental and psychological factors\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000080\">which contribute to a child\u2019s mental wellbeing and support schools to ensure children and young people have\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000080\">the experiences and supports they need to overcome barriers to their learning. They also explore \u2018exceptions\u2019\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000080\">and protective factors which contribute to a child\u2019s capacity to use their coping skills within schools.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000080\">They use their knowledge of psychology to help schools and families understand how they can support children\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000080\">and young people to deal with the ups and downs of life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #999999\">Targeted<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080\">Educational Psychologists look at ways in which the school and home environment may be adapted to better support a child and to remove barriers to their learning.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000080\">Educational Psychologists support schools to deliver programmes and strategies which help children and young people to understand and address anxiety or to cope with loss.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000080\">They support education staff and parents in understanding what a child\u2019s behaviours are communicating. E.g. a child may avoid certain situations because it is stressful.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000080\">They can help a child learn to self-regulate by using relaxation strategies or mindfulness or cognitive behaviour therapy approaches.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000080\">Educational Psychologists can also work with children and young people to enable them to understand how their mind works and to help them to develop strategies which enable them to cope with difficult situations.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Universal Educational Psychologists promote a relationship &#8211; based approach to support adults to meet the needs of\u00a0children and young people. They consider developmental, learning, environmental and psychological factors\u00a0which contribute to a child\u2019s mental wellbeing and support schools to ensure children and young people have\u00a0the experiences and supports they need to overcome barriers to their learning. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/healthierminds\/how-and-when-agencies-can-help\/educational-psychology-service\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Educational Psychology Service<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30990,"featured_media":0,"parent":66,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-117","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/healthierminds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/healthierminds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/healthierminds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/healthierminds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30990"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/healthierminds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/healthierminds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2344,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/healthierminds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/117\/revisions\/2344"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/healthierminds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/healthierminds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}