Young people with severe social, emotional and behavioural difficulties:
What can Applied Psychology offer to stressed teachers and parents?
Young people with severe social, emotional and behavioural difficulties: What
can Applied Psychology offer to stressed teachers and parents?
Thursday 29th March 2012
Programme Summary
Programme
Educational Psychologists, engaging in planning consultations with secondary schools and
supporting young people in their families and communities, are regularly asked for advice and
09.00
Registration and Coffee
support for young people whose behaviour appears to be uninhibited, unpredictable and
09.30
Welcome and Introduction
unfathomable. Such children are likely to be disengaged in lessons, defiant to staff, have difficulty
Dr Seán Cameron, Co-Director of the professional doctorate programme in
Educational Psychology at UCL
engaging in positive peer relations and may engage in a high level of risk taking behaviours both
within and outside school. Often they show a flagrant disregard for the conventions of the school
09:50
and the community and an inability to consider long term aspirations, or indeed their own current
safety.
Conduct Disorder in adolescence : emotions, regulation and individual
differences
Keynote No 1: Dr Catherine Sebastian, University College London
10.50
11.05
Questions and comments from the audience
11.30
Managing disruptive behaviour in the classroom: how should applied
psychologists support teachers who are stressed?
Morning break
To what extent are these behaviours influenced by within-child, family, school and wider contextual
issues? What can current research from Neuroscience and psychology tell us about adolescence
and the best ways to support these young people and their families?
Do answers to these
Keynote No 2: Prof Judy Hutchings, Bangor University
questions contain specific implications for educational and child psychology practitioners?
12.30
12.45
Questions and comments from the audience
01.30
Early intervention programmes: how can applied psychology research support
stressed parents?
Lunch
The objectives of this leading -edge psychology day are:
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to review current research in this area, to develop a better understanding of the needs
of children and young people with conduct disorder
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to consider the most appropriate methods of managing this problem
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and to hear about a number of innovatory interventions being carried out by educational
and child psychology practitioners.
Keynote No 3: Dr Caroline White, Children and Parents Service for Central
Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
02.30
Questions and comments from the audience
Short comfort break
About the keynote speakers:
DEdPsy course members: Current innovatory interventions in Educational
Psychology Services and organisations.
Prof Judy Hutchings holds a chair at Bangor University. She has researched and published
Coping Power using video for children with conduct difficulties in years 5-7.
Kathryn Gibb, London Borough of Redbridge
widely in a number of topics relating to behavior, including conduct disorder, anger management
and in teacher classroom management.
What do we know about gang membership and the effects young people in
our schools and communities? Deborah Benjamin, Birmingham.
Dr Catherine Sebastian is a postdoctoral researcher at the UCL Department of Clinical,
An evaluation of the Restorative Justice process and outcomes. Dr Juliet
Starbuck, West Sussex and Educational Psychology Group, UCL
Educational and Health Psychology. Her most recent publication is a study of the neural bases of
cognitive and affective Theory of Mind processing in adolescents with conduct disorder.
Using VIG with the parents of adolescents with behaviour difficulties. Kirsty
Brown, Surrey
Dr Caroline White is a consultant clinical psychologist and head of the Children and Parents
Service for Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation. Her specialist research
interest is in cognitive aspects of parental wellbeing and she has also organized workshops
nationally on the ‘Incredible Years’ programme.
02.45
04.20
Response to the day
Dr Susan Birch, Educational Psychology Group, UCL and Senior EP,
Buckinghamshire.
04.30
End of Leading-edge Psychology day.
Continuing Professional Development in Educational Psychology
Young people with severe social, emotional and behavioural difficulties:
What can Applied Psychology offer to stressed teachers and parents?
University College London
Department of Clinical, Educational and
Health Psychology
Thursday 29th March 2012
Young people with severe social, emotional and behavioural difficulties:
What can Applied Psychology offer to stressed teachers and parents?
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