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CANCELLED - Basic Counselling Skills
- This course would be appropriate for any staff members who have individual conversations with pupils which focus on making positive changes, as well as for staff delivering small group interventions on the development of emotional wellbeing.
The acquisition of basic counselling skills can offer useful and effective strategies and approaches for school staff to develop relationships and frame discussions with children and young people in order to support and empower them to problem solve.
We will develop and practise active listening skills and consider how these alongside the core conditions for therapeutic change can be used in the school setting.
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Heidi Mcdermott, Educational Psychology Service, Rochdale BC
Dr Heidi McDermott, Senior Educational Psychologist
I qualified as an Educational Psychologist in 2014. Before that I worked as a primary school teacher and a specialist teacher with children and young people with social, emotional and mental health (SEMH) needs. As a senior Educational Psychologist, I carry out regular supervision with trainees and colleagues. I have strong beliefs about inclusion and social justice, I am very interested in SEMH, attachment, trauma and therapeutic approaches. My thesis was around the use of assessments with children with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD). I like to use dynamic assessment to understand what helps children and young people to learn and am always using and developing ways to make sure their voices are heard.
Hopwood Hall College
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How to get here
By Road: The Rochdale campus is 2.6 miles from junction 20 off the M62. Follow the signs for Rochdale town centre
By Rail: Rochdale train station is a ten minute walk from the Rochdale Campus through the town centre. It is also a Metrolink station, Manchester’s light railway system, which links Rochdale with Oldham, Bury and Manchester City Centre.
By Bus: The Rochdale bus station is approximately 5 minutes’ walk from the Rochdale campus. There are frequent bus services throughout the borough which terminate in Rochdale.