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Education and Child Psychology
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This workshop offers an introduction to externalisation, a way of creating separation between the person and the ‘problem’, and provide an approach to structuring conversations, which connect people with w
Parents often downplay the worries of their children, new research has found.
Research published in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences suggests that teenagers are more willing to take gambles than other age groups. The
Parents could help reduce the likelihood of their children experiencing emotional problems by bonding with them when they are infants.
The many factors that influence the living habits of children between the ages of eight and 14 are to be explored in a new study.
The influence of a parent may be more important than the qualities of a school when it comes to how well a child performs in the classroom, new research has suggested.
A cute mistake that young children make is to think that they can hide themselves by covering or closing their eyes. Why do they make this error?
This workshop will strike a balance between the facilitators’ sharing their knowledge of working in the UK and Cambodia and encouraging participants to share and reflect upon their own practice.
Sitting a test can help schoolchildren to learn, in addition to serving as an assessment tool.
Parents need to be good role models when it comes to money management, new research has suggested.
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This workshop will consider issues that members are experiencing as Educational Psychology services are increasingly being traded. Provisional timetable09:30 Registration/tea and coffee
John O'Dowd, minister for education in the Northern Ireland Executive, gave this year's British Psychological Society Northern Ireland Branch Public Lecture in Stanmills earlier week.
Today sees the publication of a major new report by a Chartered Psychologist on the impact that acquired brain injuries can have on young people in childhood and in their transition to adulthood. It also outlines the criminal justice consequences if these injuries go untreated.
This workshop will introduce participants to three areas of recent research:
This workshop explores the research on positive psychology and the parameters of authentic wellbeing. These are summarised by the acronym PERMA - Positive emotions, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning and Achievement.
This workshop makes the link between factors that promote resilience in young people and the development of pro-social behaviour. Provisional timetable09:30 Registration/Tea and Coffee
The use of qualitative methods in psychology research has grown enormously in recent decades.
Story telling is such a natural part of our culture and school activity that stories can be used in a very natural way, helping the child feel less pathologised.
Defining good supervision and how it works has been a challenge for psychologists.
Young children can be aggressive for different reasons, new research has shown.
This workshop will explore the current and developing roles of the educational and clinical psychology working within a particular Youth Offending Team. Provisional timetable
Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) could perform better academically if they carry out more exercise.
This workshop is focused on the growing field of Mindfulness Based Approaches.
This workshop will consider why the needs of children who are permanently separated from their birth families are complex and important to support. The workshop will review attachment theory and the impact of developmental trauma on childhood.
