Ange McMillan: Reducing Emotionally Based School Avoidance
22 April 2023
$85- This event has passed.
This online workshop runs 10am – 4pm.
Join us for this brilliant day with the wonderful Ange McMillan, who will be exploring ways to best support and understand children and young people who struggle with school attendance, a prevalent presenting issue currently that has been all the more heightened by the pandemic.
Content Summary:
We all know how tough the last few years have been for the young people in our care.
In and out of school, having to wear masks, change in routines, fears of catching Covid and the impact on loved ones.
Going to school has become more of a struggle, and when they are there the people and the environment can feel unwelcoming and unsafe.
Missed lessons, missed days and, for many, missed weeks or even months are not only negatively impacting their mental health but making it more difficult for them to even think about returning to a school routine. Many are still struggling.
In fact, the number of young people failing to attend school has increased from 10.8% in 2018/19 to 12.1% and is still on the rise. It’s an issue that we need to tackle, but not through fines and blanket punishments. Instead, through working with young people to understand the issues they face and how we can support them to succeed in education.
- What emotionally based school avoidance is
- Risk factors and causes of school based anxiety
- The impact of separation anxiety
- Understanding anxiety responses
- Therapeutic approaches to reduce anxiety including ways to assess
- Using a community based approach; working with groups
This practical and creative session is based on research from recent projects that saw a significant increase in young people who had been out of school for a year beginning to return to education.
This session is suitable for therapists, educators and anyone with a young person in their life who is struggling to attend. You might like to have some creative tools to hand – pens, paper, clay, scissors, pastels, paints – anything you might wish to use to express yourself when invited (you won’t be pressured to share with the group – this is just an alternative way for you to explore the subject area on the day).
CPD Access Pass
This workshop counts as 6 CPD hours as part of the CPD Access Pass 12 hour allowance. The Access Pass is a key part of The Sunflower Network’s commitment to providing affordable and accessible high quality CPD to our peers, and can be bought by individuals who have joined our free Sunflower Hub multi-disciplinary resource.
About Ange:
Ange has her own organisation Elemental Health, which she set up in 2015 after running counselling services for young people in schools and sixth forms. She has her my own lived experiences of systemic trauma, leaving home as a young teenager and experiencing anxiety herself for many years.
She realised with many young people, there was a lack of knowledge about what might be happening physically, emotionally and in their connections to others, so began to teach PHSE sessions on emotional literacy to year 9’s. Ange’s aim was simple; to help young people help each other and in doing so help themselves.
Ange then went on to train as a Youth and Adult Mental Health First Aid and began to write and develop her own training programmes for the adults in young people’s lives. She believes that with the understanding and support of calm, regulated and connected adults it becomes easier for every young person to thrive.
Ange’s training is trauma sensitive and focused on creating an inclusive space for all. She has delivered workshops, training, therapy and coaching to thousands of people across the world using evidence based strategies proven to work. She is also an NLP coach for parents and carers of anxious children and offer counselling sessions to help teenagers overcome anxiety.
CERTIFICATES & RESOURCES
The ticket price includes any handouts the trainer may wish to share with you which will be sent out AFTER the event has taken place – and a CPD certificate.
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