Promoting positive mental health in a secondary school

18 April 2023 by

I’ve always been interested in applying Psychology at strategic levels within school systems, and have been working closely with the…

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…

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….

Launch of free training: Motivational Interviewing – implementation in organisations

5 December 2022 by , 2 comments

Motivational interviewing (MI) is a person-centred communication style, which can be a central pillar of effective EP casework and consultation….

Open Journal of Educational Psychology: Giving psychology away

22 November 2022 by

In this blog we introduce the Open Journal of Educational Psychology (OJEP) and talk a little about why you might…

Bringing research evidence to schools

7 November 2022 by

As Educational Psychologists (EPs) we are used to reading and digesting research on an almost daily basis. But my experience…

“Ok – so what opportunities do we need?” Why collaborative reviews of the impact of EP involvement are vital

31 August 2022 by , , , and

Within educational psychology (EP), so much is spoken about commencing case work – establishing rapport, contracting, information gathering. But how…