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Project: Working with eco-anxiety or climate distress in clinical practice

22 March 2023 by

This project aims to explore how it feels for counsellors, psychotherapists, or practitioner psychologists to experience eco-anxiety or climate distress…

Book review: ‘Chatter’

12 March 2023 by

Book author: Ethan Kross. Chatter is written by Ethan Kross, an American psychologist with an expertise in the conscious mind….

Using data to analyse the impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of young people

28 February 2023 by

We have written previously about our use of locally-gathered mental health and wellbeing data to support our educational establishments with…

Project: Identifying the core components of school based EP consultation

20 February 2023 by and

This project aims to identify the core components of UK school-based consultation by Educational Psychologists (EPs). In addition, the project…

edpsy launches pilot mentoring directory

8 February 2023 by , and

Today we launch the pilot phase of our new mentoring directory. We’ve developed this in response to a community desire…

Longer read: ‘Who can empathise with the Big, Bad Wolf?’ empathy and multiple narratives as an EP in a Children’s Services context

6 February 2023 by , 1 comment

I have been working in a Specialist Practitioner Educational Psychologist role for the last 4 years within a multi-disciplinary ‘Edge…

Project: Compassion fatigue, satisfaction and EP workplace stress

30 January 2023 by

This project looks to understand the influence of compassion fatigue, compassion satisfaction, and workplace stress on educational psychologists’ working practices….

edpsy mentoring directory pilot: call for mentors

23 January 2023 by

Very shortly we will be launching a trial of a new feature on the site, a mentoring directory. We’d like…

Longer read: CBT workbooks: more than just manuals?

22 January 2023 by

Cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) is the most intensively researched mental health intervention. A meta-review identified 494 reviews, representing over 220,000 participants,…

Creating a trauma sensitive classroom

16 January 2023 by , 1 comment

Over the last 2.5 years I have held a specialist role in my Local Authority which centred upon supporting and…