Guest speaker: Assessing the mental health and wellbeing of pupils with SEND
At a glance
Guest speaker
Dr Kirstie Rees
Webinar duration
2 hours
Suitable for
Thrive Licensed Practitioners
CPD
Worth 5 CPD points
Price per place
£75 excl. VAT
Course Outcomes
‘Assessing the mental health and wellbeing of pupils with SEND’ is worth 5 CPD points to Thrive Licensed Practitioners.
Actionable insights, tips and techniques
This session will:
- Reassure and empower you in your role supporting children and young people
- Help you to consider wider factors that contribute to how pupils cope
- Explore ways of adapting the school environment to support children with SEND
- Give you strategies that you can individualise according to a child or young person’s needs
Who is it for?
Thrive Licensed Practitioners from primary and secondary settings.
Introducing guest speaker: Dr Kirstie Rees
Dr Kirstie Rees is a specialised educational and child psychologist, with extensive experience and research in the areas of learning disabilities, neurodiversity and mental health. She is author of the book: ‘The Mental Health and Wellbeing of Children and Young People with Learning Difficulties: A Guide for Educators’ and provides training, consultation and support to a number of organisations. She is also a partner tutor on the MSC in Educational Psychology at the University of Dundee.
What you'll learn
This session will make you feel more confident about both understanding and assessing the wellbeing of children and young people with SEND. You'll leave with practical tools that will help you to carry out a holistic assessment of a child’s needs, and better equip you to support individual needs within the classroom.
Course structure
2-hour webinar.