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- Educational Psychology Service Leaflets
There is a range of informative publications produced by the Educational Psychology Service to assist parents and carers.
Leaflets are listed below as pdf files. Please note that these leaflets can be printed satisfactorily in either colour or black and white
Bedtime
Bringing up children is a difficult job and no-one teaches us how to do it. We do not claim to have all the answers, but we hope this leaflet will help you to understand why some of these problems occur ... and how to deal with them.
If your child has experienced the death of someone close, then you and the rest of your family are probably affected. The leaflet attached may be of some help at this difficult time.
Bullying is persistent aggression towards a particular child, this aggression can be expressed in a physical or verbal manner. The attached leaflet provides guidance to help you understand and take action to alleviate identified bullying behaviour.
This leaflet is the first of two leaflets dealing with difficult behaviour and the approaches described here should be tried before going on to the stronger sanctions covered in the second leaflet "Dealing with More Difficult Behaviour".
This leaflet describes further approaches after you have used the previous leaflet's suggestions.
Who we are and what we do. The attached leaflet outlines the range of services for assessing and supporting young children.
The reactions experienced by a child or young person can be distressing to all concerned. This leaflet may help to provide some support after a traumatic experience.
This leaflet describes some strategies which could be deployed for encouraging good behaviour.
At some point during formal Education your child will have to take exams. This leaflet lists do's and don'ts that may help them cope with exam stress.
This leaflet describes various activities that can be undertaken to keep children amused at holiday periods.
This is a topic which poses difficulty for any parents from time to time. This leaflet attempts to tackle some of the pitfalls but also suggests some homework tips.
A description of the functioning behind the Educational Psychology Service
Use this leaflet to help:
Specific points to be taken into consideration when helping your child with their writing.
This leaflet helps the older child with literacy difficulties.
Ideas for coping with stress.
This leaflet contains a number of suggestions that may be useful in helping parents manage difficult children more easily.
This leaflet contains guidelines and strategies for learning.
A guide helps children cope when parents separate or divorce.
This leaflet helps understand difficulties children can experience with:
This leaflet explains about multi-sensory learning to assist children improve their reading and writing skills.
Some do's and don'ts for step-parents.
What the triggers are - how to avoid and cope with temper tantrums.
