Category: For Parents & Caregivers

  • Personalisation

    Personalisation

    We have published free downloadable materials for parents and teachers to help with thinking and learning in children and young people especially for children with developmental difficulties. Yesterday we blogged about a key feature of EPIC – multiple areas of difficulty and we wrote about our play, game and activity based focus.   Today we are…

  • Multiple areas of difficulty and neurodevelopmental conditions

    Multiple areas of difficulty and neurodevelopmental conditions

    The EPIC intervention and use of associated materials aims to facilitate optimal learning, behaviour, wellbeing and mental health in children and young people. We recently blogged about strategies paired to areas of difficulty.   Today we are going to cover a further key aspect of our approach: targeting multiple areas of difficulty. Children with neurodevelopmental difficulties…

  • Strategies to help with thinking skills

    Strategies to help with thinking skills

    A central part of the EPIC approach is the use of psychoeducation and pairing of that knowledge with suitable strategies for facilitating optimal thinking, learning and wellbeing. Once the child, parent and/or teacher are aware of a child’s difficulties, strategies can then be paired to difficulties to meet an individual child’s needs. In our Strategy…

  • Psychoeducation

    Psychoeducation

    The EPIC intervention and use of associated materials aims to facilitate optimal thinking, learning, and wellbeing in children and young people. A central part of the EPIC approach is the use of psychoeducation.   What is psychoeducation and what does it involve? Psychoeducation involves gaining knowledge to help with understanding of a condition. The aim of…

  • Welcome to the EPIC blog!

    Welcome to the EPIC blog!

    We are really pleased to launch our blog ‘Edinburgh Psychoeducation Intervention for Children and Young People’ (EPIC) today!  Our website can be found here with downloadable resources to facilitate thinking, learning and wellbeing in children. EPIC takes an individualised approach to child development with the aim of facilitating optimal learning, behaviour, well-being and mental health…