Category: For Teacher & Educators
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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…
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How can researchers encourage teaching professionals to get involved in research?
This blog post is pitched to researchers and how best to encourage teachers and other education professionals to get involved in research. The work described in this post was funded by a Wellcome Trust, University of Edinburgh, Institutional Strategic Support Fund award. Administering interventions through schools is a promising strategy for improving the wellbeing and…
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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…
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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…
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