We are a team of qualified Educational Psychologists (EPs), Trainee Educational Psychologists (TEPs), assistant Educational Psychologists, and undergraduate psychology students working across Warwickshire. We support children and young people with a range of complex special educational needs and challenging life circumstances, from their earliest years through to young adulthood.
All children and young people develop and learn in their own way, but some may need more help with certain aspects, for example with:
- Their overall development
- Specific areas of learning, such as learning to read
- Social communication, playing with others and building relationships
- Managing their emotions and behaviour
- Mental health and wellbeing
- Engaging with school or learning
- Medical health needs that impact on their learning and their access to school
- Uncertainty around planning for the future and their journey to young adulthood.
The support of an EP involves providing help and advice to empower others (such as parents and carers, families, school staff, and other professionals) to support young people’s needs.
If you are a school looking for further information about how the EPS can support you and your students, please refer to the Warwickshire Educational Service (WES) website.
Warwickshire Educational Service (WES)
How an Educational Psychologist (EP) can help
As EPs we may work with children and young people from birth to 25 years of age. We use our training in psychology, education, human relationships and children’s development to promote the learning, social and emotional development of all young people.
We may do this in many different ways:
- Working individually with your child, to gain their views, and possibly using different assessment tools or activities
- Visiting your child in their school or setting
- Visiting you and your child at home, with your agreement
- Meeting with staff from your child’s school or setting
- Meeting with other professionals
- Working together to develop a plan of agreed support and possible next steps, which can then be reviewed later
- Providing written reports of our involvement, and possible next steps of support.
You will need to agree that it’s necessary for an EP to support your child and the EP will be likely to want to talk to you to understand your perspective of your child’s situation.