Project: Educational Psychologists’ practice in eliciting the views of children and young people with severe learning difficulties

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This project aims to provide an insight into current knowledge and practices amongst Educational Psychologists (EPs), across the UK, in…

Educational psychology training open events – UK wide

15 September 2021 by , and , 2 comments

This page has information about the dates, times and additional details for Doctoral EP training course open events across the…

Longer read: ABCs for successful supervision

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As psychologists, we rightly place huge emphasis upon the importance of relationships. We know that the teacher-student relationship is one…

EPs and INSETs: a reflection on practice for in-service teacher training.

18 September 2018 by , 1 comment

Throughout my training I have had placements across three Educational Psychology Services (EPS’) and recently I’ve been thinking about the…

Needs and priorities of UK Care leavers: illustrating the findings…

6 June 2018 by , 1 comment

Browsing twitter recently, we came across this graphic. Illustrating the findings from Rebekah Hyde’s trainee doctoral dissertation, it really grabbed…

“You know nothing Jon Snow”; learning to love conscious incompetence.

22 November 2017 by , 2 comments

At a CPD day for my previous employer, I was asked to present a reflection of my time in the…

Trainee representation at the DECP

29 June 2017 by , 1 comment

When the opportunity arose to be a trainee representative for the Division of Educational and Child Psychology (DECP) I jumped…

Doctoral Thesis: My experiences of narrative research

1 December 2016 by , 2 comments

There’s little out there on the experiences of psychologists using a narrative inquiry approach. This account may help other EPs…

DECP Annual Conference 2017: Challenging Beliefs and Exposing Myths

17 November 2016 by

At the moment, the world is a uniquely challenging place for children and young people to grow up in and…

EP Training: Jumping from year 1 to year 2

27 August 2016 by

In Year 2 you are often and quite suddenly expected to take on a patch of schools, accept referrals, discuss…