Overview of Educational Psychologist Flashcards
(17 cards)
Aim of educational psychology
- goal is to enhance the achievement + wellbeing of children + young people
- schools refer children to educational psychologists for additional support- children who are referred tend to have additional needs
- focus on potential adaptations in the systems to help fulfil potential
core ways of working as an ed psych
-Jones + Atkinson, 2021
-psychological consultation
-Holistic assessment -> every aspect of Childs dev
- Intervention
- professional dev + training
-research dev
critical incident work
-sudden death of Child
-victim/exposure to crime
-supporting staff deal with event + providing emotional support
-expert witness testimonies
Areas of SEN
-physical + sensory
- cog + learning
- communication + interaction
-social, emotional + MH
Physical + sensory
- Gross + fine mater skills : balance, co-ord, control
-sensory sensitivities: hypersensitive + hyposensitive, visual, tactile
Cognition + Learning
-Attainment in core subjects
- Intellectual abilities
-specific learning abilities
- executive functional skills
-Approaches to learning
-Learning mindsets
communication + interaction
-expressive lang skills
-receptive lang skills
-pragmatic lang skills
- attention span
-level of eye contact
- desire/need to communicate
social, emotional + MH
- social interaction skills
- friendships
- emotional literacy skills
- underlying + presenting MH needs
-Beh acting as a barrier to learning
Inclusion
- Lauchlan + Grieg 2015
- refers to fair access + opportunity -> ed institution, poor upbringing
- involves debates about: placement, resource distribution, adaptation, inclusion within learning
statutory involvement - EHC
-Department for ed 2015
-have a statutory role to provide alive for ed, health + care (EHC)
- EHC plans are additional suport by local authorities to children with most severe needs
- If EHC plans are granted, additional packages of support
Psychological theory within ed psych
- Brofenbrenner’s systems theory
-Maslow’s hierarchy of needs - self-determination Theory (Ryan + Deci, 2017)
- Attachment Bolwby
-POs psychology Seligman - zone of proximal dev Vygotsky
- executive functions Dason + guare
consultation
- collaborative process where concerns are raised within problem solving framework
- involves meeting of indivs
-Aim to find joint solution to a problem - EP, teacher + parents
-prior EP observes
Plan-do-review (Beaver)
-Plan -> initial consultation, EP meets child to identify problems
- Do -> intervention plan implemented
-Review -> Meet again to review progress + assess effectiveness
consultation - key tasks
- provide increased awareness of psychology underlying the problem
- discuss strategies + interventions
- collaborate
-plan of action to reach targets
-support teachers)parents with emotional distress
strengths of child
- areas of academic strength
- child finds enjoyable
- friendships
-teaching staff respond better to
-Hobbies
-pos personality traits
Meta Model
-verbal communication is a secondary representation of experience
- consultee May want verbal description of model
- Deletions -> om it info preventing us from gaining full understanding
- generalisations-> generalise info to every circumstance
-Distortions -> alter meaning of info
- Beaver 2011
Target monitoring + evaluation (TME)
-Dunsmuir et al
- tool to eval progress
- Ask teacher to rate What target beh is now + review after intervention
- target number is realistic
- Assess progress that recognises small gains
-understand success of an intervention
