Becky Guthrie
@beckyguthrie.bsky.social
Educational Psychologist | Additional role in children’s residential work | Peer Reviewer | Mum to a boy and his orange cat 🌟 | Can be found in the forest at lunchtime 🌳 | Based in Scotland
What’s your take on universal mental health programs in schools? Do they help all students or should we focus more on targeted support for those who really need it? Learn more with Prof. Jess Deighton from @annafreudcharity.bsky.social Listen👇 changingstatesofmind.libsyn.com/navigating-m...
Just a request for TEP followers One of our best ways at edpsy of sharing with your cohorts...is through you! TEP tickets to our festival are only £20 and we'd love to see as many of you there as possible. If you could share this with your groups...amazing 🙏🌟 Tickets: festival.edpsy.org.uk
@psychmag.bsky.social Thank you for sharing these valuable tips! Further tips can also be found in the @bpsofficial.bsky.social @bps-dartp.bsky.social @theatp.bsky.social Teachers’ Toolkit www.bps.org.uk/member-netwo...
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We’ve teamed up with the Association for the Teaching of Psychology (ATP) to create a free toolkit to support your teaching.
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The Psychologist@psychmag.bsky.social · last yr.If you're heading to university to study Psychology, you might appreciate The Psychologist Guide to University Life… www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
Another important set of considerations! Having practiced LA, private, Scot, Eng, in person, remote - as an NQEP I think it’s so important to follow this topic and reflect. I often think about the presumption of mainstreaming in Scotland and how that often shapes the EP role as strategic #EdPsychs
Dr Dan O'Hare@edpsydan.bsky.social · last yr.I wrote something - kinda a rambling of various thoughts after an...interesting article in iPaper last week TLDR - We need to extend systems thinking to our own profession. We're too small to be divided. We need diverse voice at media and policy level #edpsychs www.linkedin.com/pulse/thinki...
‘Well-established routines form the foundation of effective teaching': Dr Sarah Mullin shares research-informed strategies to help new teachers create routines in their classrooms from day one
Why new teachers must embrace the power of routines
Establishing routines quickly is important for early career teachers, explains Dr Sarah Mullin, who reveals research-informed strategies to do just that
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Unlock language & comprehension with Blank Levels! 🗣️💡 1️⃣ Name/Describe 2️⃣ Analyse 3️⃣ Predict/Reason 4️⃣ Problem-Solve Perfect for Children with language needs, or any learner! Start simple, scaffold up👆 #Edpsychs #SEND #LanguageDevelopment
🎪🫖Join us for a pre-festival PositiviTEA We're collaborating for a special festival warm-up event on 10th September at 4pm. Dan (from edpsy) will join Max and Fi to reflect on creating a values-focused, action-oriented positive community More here: edpsy.org.uk/event/a-cup-... #edpsychs #epfest
Important considerations about remote assessments and the impact on quality, as well as privatisation of EP work. I always find seeing how the child interacts with the school context to be a valuable piece of information. #EdPsychs inews.co.uk/news/educati...
Private firms paid 'millions' in SEND cash as cost of child assessments rockets
Taxpayers’ money 'sucked' out of system by agencies poaching educational psychologists to conduct online assessments of children’s needs
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Talking Mats – Capacity: enabling supported decision making Use Talking Mats to help with the most common decisions people face: what you do in your free time, where you live, your safety, and your support plan. This advanced course is for people already Talking Mats trained. #hscm #slcn
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This webinar focuses on the Talking Mats Capacity resource, which is supplied as part of the course fee and supports decision-making.
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Very important report out today from the Youth Futures Foundation exploring factors accounting for escalating mental health problems in young people. Lead by fantastic colleagues from the University of Manchester (@olademk.bsky.social et al). Report here: youthfuturesfoundation.org/what-we-do/f...
Understanding young people’s declining mental health - Youth Futures Foundation
Exploring drivers of worsening mental health among 14-24 year olds through a first-of-its-kind study for England
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The traumatic experience of tribunals for EHCPs is often told from the parents' perspective - for good reasons - but looking at it from the school perspective tells us a huge amount about the disaster of the current system. Excellent piece from @ellencph.bsky.social www.tes.com/magazine/ana...
EHCP tribunals: why schools' struggles must guide SEND reform
If the government's plans for tackling the SEND crisis are to be successful, it has to look at the difficulties that the tribunal process is creating for schools, finds Ellen Peirson-Hagger
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Would you like to share some #positivepsychology reflections to end your year on an uplifting note? Would you like to join a brilliant bunch of friendly EPs, TEPs and Assistant EPs for inspiring and inclusive small group chats? Join PositiviTEA: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-cup-of-p... #edpsychs
Feeling refreshed, inspired, and ready to finish writing a report today after yesterday’s walk up to Corrie Fee. There’s something magical about this place ✨ #EdPsychs #CorrieFee #CairngormsNationalPark
‘EHCPs aren’t just bureaucratic paperwork – without them, it becomes far harder to ensure the right help gets to the right child at the right time.' Jane Harris, CEO of Speech and Language UK, issues a warning to DfE about scrapping education, health and care plans
Why losing EHCPs would be a disaster for speech and language support
The DfE suggestion that EHCPs may not be the ‘right vehicle’ for SEND support fails to acknowledge the scale of the challenges that children with speech and language needs experience, writes Jane Harris
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This is brilliant. It has me reflecting on how, in Scotland, parents aren’t generally fined for children not attending. No praise and behaviour points, where some children feel quantifiably labelled as more ‘bad’ than ‘good’. It certainly isn’t perfect here, but is an interesting contrast! #EdPsychs
The Psychologist@psychmag.bsky.social · last yr.You get to choose your hard thing… Chartered Psychologist Dr Jennifer McClay with a personal and professional take on ‘emotionally-based school non-attendance’, or ‘school refusal’. www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
Seeking participants! ✨ I am exploring what indices of social justice are collected through referral forms. I am looking to recruit EPS willing to send across their referral/consent form, to find out more please email hannah.whiteley-2@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk @drcathyatkinson.bsky.social
Enacting the UNCRC means children have rights to consent, to be consulted, and to complain. But often adult myths about their capacity get in the way. @jochamberlain.bsky.social and I asked children & young people what they thought of these myths - here is what we learned!
Ready for another week of apologising profusely because this little orange has gate crashed all of my Teams meetings 🍊 Recently he climbed onto my shoulder mid line manager supervision 🤭🤣 #EdPsychs
Gosh this paper hits the nail on the head… “we argue that the replication crisis could be approached by paying more attention to the context conditions under which psychological realities and knowledge about these realities are being created”. All cognition and behaviour is in context. #EdPsychs
The DECP are seeking new TEP reps for their TEP Voice group. I’ve been in this supportive and impactful group for a while (now as a newly qual. rep). We are consulted on a range of topics such as reviewing key papers, TEP inclusion, and presenting at events 🤩 #EdPsychs @bpsofficial.bsky.social
I RAGED at this on the radio yesterday, and will repeat my mantra: you cannot (MUST NOT) ask people to develop 'resilience' or 'grit' against those things that are in your power to change. 'Develop resilience' so often means 'your disability is inconveniencing me, please be less disabled' 🧵
Samantha Wathen@samanthajwathen.bsky.social · last yr.This headline & Streeting's words are an insult to the thousands of neurodiverse kids who've been monumentally failed by an NHS on its knees where early interventions are provided by charities - if at all. But yeah, put the onus back on to children to suck it up instead of addressing what's broken
We must stay true to our values. If a generally free society loses its moral courage, then what is left. Thank you for continuing to remind us @noushaep.bsky.social “We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” #EdPsychs
@noushaep.bsky.social · last yr.I am an Educational Psychologist. We work with children and YP. I am finding it completely incomprehensible that there are children being blown up, killed and imprisoned & our profession is silent. You can’t take a neutral stance on this. #edpsychs
🌟 KIDS, TEENS, SCREENS + SOCIAL MEDIA 🌟 I’m excited to share this fascinating chat I had with @peteetchells.bsky.social, author of Unlocked: The Real Science of Screen Time and How To Spend It Better youtu.be/CDklRSfl8og We explore the following questions, submitted to us on Instagram: (cont)
Two psychologists have a reassuring, science-based chat about screens, phones and social media
YouTube video by Lucy Foulkes
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