{"id":50,"date":"2019-09-20T08:58:13","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T08:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/renfrewshireedpsych\/?page_id=50"},"modified":"2026-01-09T09:41:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T09:41:43","slug":"all-about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/renfrewshireedpsych\/all-about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"What does an Educational Psychologist do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"ep-work\">Educational psychologists work to improve the learning and wellbeing of all children<\/h2>\n<p>We work to support children and young people who experience a wide range of <a href=\"https:\/\/education.gov.scot\/parentzone\/additional-support\/what-are-additional-support-needs\/\">additional support needs (ASNs)<\/a>. For example, children and young people who may:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>Find communicating difficult e.g. have trouble expressing themselves or find playing with others tricky<\/li>\n<li>Find an area or areas of learning difficult e.g. are having trouble learning to read or remember things<\/li>\n<li>Might be feeling low, worried, angry or want to hurt themselves<\/li>\n<li>Have a disability or sensory impairment<\/li>\n<li>Have been in the care of the Local Authority at any point<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>As well as working to support children with ASNs, EPs work in a wide range of different ways, in collaboration with parents, teachers and other professionals to benefit all children and young people.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some examples of this type of working include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>Facilitating solution-focused discussions with groups of establishments to support children and young people with ASNs <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/renfrewshireedpsych\/lisn\/\">(Locality Inclusion Support Networks)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Training small groups of staff or whole establishments<\/li>\n<li>Running parent groups<\/li>\n<li>Supporting establishments to do action research e.g. finding out whether something has worked or not<\/li>\n<li>Supporting establishments with organisational change<\/li>\n<li>Working to identify and reduce inequalities for children and young people<\/li>\n<li>Being involved in and advising local authority groups considering ASNs<\/li>\n<li>Working across the local authority to develop systems to improve children and young people&#8217;s mental health and wellbeing<\/li>\n<li>Project work in establishments such as promoting <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/renfrewshireedpsych\/rnra\/\">nurturing approaches<\/a> or developing <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/renfrewshireedpsych\/rice\/\">inclusive communication environments<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is just a small sample of the work that EPs do. Please explore our website to see some of the other whole service interventions we are involved in.<\/p>\n<p>Families for whom English is not their first language, may also find it helpful to explore the English as an Additional Language Service website <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/reneal\/info-for-parents-carers\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>[Credit: O\u2019Hare, D.P. (2021, October 22).\u00a0Educational psychology. edpsy.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/edpsy.org.uk\/about\/educational-psychology\/\">https:\/\/edpsy.org.uk\/about\/educational-psychology\/<\/a>\u00a0 &#8211; Some words have been changed to reflect the specific context of Scottish Educational Psychology Services]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Educational psychologists work to improve the learning and wellbeing of all children We work to support children and young people who experience a wide range of additional support needs (ASNs). For example, children and young people who may: Find communicating difficult e.g. have trouble expressing themselves or find playing with others tricky Find an area &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/renfrewshireedpsych\/all-about-us\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What does an Educational Psychologist do?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7960,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-50","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/renfrewshireedpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/renfrewshireedpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/renfrewshireedpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/renfrewshireedpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7960"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/renfrewshireedpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/renfrewshireedpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/renfrewshireedpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50\/revisions\/1011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/renfrewshireedpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}