Working with schools
There is a growing recognition in schools of the importance of timely and appropriate support for students with a range of stress-related, friendship-related and mental health difficulties. Oxford Clinical Psychology is experienced in providing a range of interventions and support to individuals, groups and staff within both independent and state schools.
What We Offer
Preventative wellbeing work
- Mindfulness workshops
- Specific workshops e.g. exam preparation; stress management; self esteem; protective behaviours; friendships
Assessments
- Classroom observations of behavioural difficulties
- Individual or family assessments of behavioural or (pre-)mental health difficulties
Interventions
1:1 or family interventions, and school interventions, for a range of difficulties including:
- Adjustment to, or management of, chronic illness
- Anger
- Anxiety
- Attachment difficulties
- Behavioural difficulties
- Bereavement
- Depression
- Disengagement from school
- Eating disorders (or eating disorder related behaviours)
- Enuresis and Encopresis
- Exam stress
- Friendship issues
- Low self esteem
- Pain management
- Parental separation
- Self harm
Consultation
- Staff training
- Staff ‘surgery’ to offer consultations and suggestions on pupils raising concerns
- Supporting schools to develop a comprehensive wellbeing and mental health strategy
How we work
- We would seek to meet with the key stakeholders in a school (usually the head of pastoral care, school nurse and special needs support staff) to ascertain the concerns an individual school may have
- A plan of assessment and intervention would then be developed within the framework provided by the school
- Once a piece of work has been offered within a school, appropriate evaluation would be undertaken
Please do get in touch to discuss how we can help.