Support for Parents
Are you a parent or carer who wants to:
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help your child feel happier and less anxious about going to school?
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develop your child's independence skills?
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encourage your child to initiate and maintain positive friendships?
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be more successful in their learning?
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support your child to recognise, understand, label, express and regulate their emotions more successfully?
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grow your child's confidence?
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support your child with their autism, ADHD, anxiety or other special educational need?
Support for School Anxiety
Help your child feel happier and less worried about going to school.
School anxiety can be devastating for children and families. Parents can often feel unsupported, helpless and blamed, not knowing how best to help their child in the face of conflicting advice. Early intervention is key to stop anxiety becoming embedded and school avoidance entrenched. By providing appropriate accommodations and helping your child to learn coping strategies to manage their anxiety, your child can learn to overcome their worries and once again feel happier in school. We can help you put this support in place.
With our support and guidance, you can have a better understanding of:
- what might be worrying your child.
- what factors may be maintaining their anxiety.
- how special educational needs can contribute to school anxiety.
- what accommodations could reasonably be put in place by schools.
- how you can support your child to manage their anxiety.
- what an effective plan of support looks like.
Online community for parents.
Join me and other parents of children who are worried about attending school for weekly online meet-ups for learning, discussion, reflection, joint problem solving and emotional support. We cover what can cause and maintain your child's anxiety and strategies that you and school staff can put in place to help your child feel happier and less worried about attending school. It's an opportunity to gain advice and support both from me and other parents who are going through the same thing within a supportive environment.
Find out moreSchool Anxiety Support for Parents Facebook Group
Follow us on Facebook to get advice, support and chat about how to support your child with school anxiety or emotionally based school avoidance.
Online consultation to discuss your child's school anxiety
60 minutes online discussion to talk though what is worrying your child and to discuss possible next steps.
Find out moreAssessment for school anxiety.
If you are looking for a more individualised approach, assessment may be the best way forward. Assessment involves me talking to you, your child and school staff to understand your child's worries. Having identified the key issues, I would work with you, your child and staff to develop a personalised plan to help your child feel happier about school.
Find out moreDownload our free 10 page handout.
This handout is likely to be most useful for parent and carers of children and young people who are worried about attending school, but nevertheless are still attending for at least part of the school day. This booklet is also likely to be helpful for parents and carers of children and young people who have recently stopped attending school due to their anxiety. The focus of the booklet is on how to support your child to feel happier about attending school.
This booklet will probably be less useful if your child has been out of school for a long period of time, has complex mental health needs or if you have already decided that you do not want you child to return to a conventional school setting.
Support for Other Issues
We can also support children who experience difficulties with:
- friendship, social skills and social communication difficulties.
- understanding and managing their emotions
- self-esteem, resilience and independence.
- motivation
- learning
- executive functioning skills such as sustaining focus, being organised and working memory.
- autism / ASD
- ADHD.
Online consultation
60 minute online discussion between you, staff and an educational psychologist to jointly think through what may be causing your child difficulties and think through next steps. The focus is on collaboration and problem solving.
Find out moreAssessment
Assessment involves identifying what may be causing your child difficulties in school and recommendations of how to make things better. The may involve me talking to your child, you and your teachers, asking your child to undertake appropriate assessments and possibly an observation in school.
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