Curriculum: Range of Issues and/or Concepts to be Covered: Knowledge and understanding of effectiveness in the professional context of educational psychology: ethical conduct, accountability and responsibility: -Theories of professionalism -Historic and current legislative frameworks -National and local policy and practice -Models of EP service delivery -Ethical issues and dilemmas -Professional codes of conduct -Quality standards for practice, accountability and evaluation The communication and practice skills needed to develop effective partnerships and collaboration with the interacting systems of families, schools and other agencies: -Effective communication -Verbal and non-verbal communication -Active listening -Assertiveness -Establishing rapport and empathy -Reframing and summarising -Effective questioning -Delivering and receiving difficult messages Structuring effective consultation meetings -Role explanation -Clarifying purposes -The co-construction of agendas -The skills of meeting management. Effective multi-modal communication: -Telephone communication -Written communication -Email correspondence -The Data Protection Act -Working with administrators -Use of video -Presentation skills. Communicating effectively with children and adolescents. Working effectively within a group: -Role clarification and understanding -Group dynamics. Multi-disciplinary working. Working with parents. The ability to work effectively in challenging contexts, such as schools in special measures, or situations where there are conflicts of opinion: -Establishing effective communication -Role sending and receiving -Recognising professional and personal boundaries -Skills of negotiation and conflict resolution -Ability to challenge in an appropriate manner -Recognition and management of emotions (inter- and intra-personal). The skills of professional reflection, critical self-awareness and professional management needed to ensure positive well-being and development as an EP. The development of Trainees’ self-awareness as practitioners, through a process of reflection, is seen as core to the development of effective professional practice. It is through this process that the effective practitioner notices, adjusts and develops his or her professional practice. Aspects include: -Theories of adult learning and the reflective practitioner -Skills and tools of professional reflection -Models of professional supervision and management: line management, professional supervision, peer consultation, appraisal systems -What makes us effective: appreciating and challenging personal professional development -Identifying own learning needs and how to meet these through continuing professional development (CPD) -Time and task management -Study skills -Managing stress and ensuring personal well-being -Workload negotiation -Effective planning in the work place -Managing personal and professional pressures -Systems for induction -CPD. Awareness of the impact of difference and diversity on life opportunities, issues of equality of opportunity and the effects of direct and indirect discrimination, and the ability to translate this awareness into effective working practice: -The moral and philosophical context -The impact of personal values and assumptions on practice and implications for equality -The legislative frameworks relating to equality and discrimination -Understanding and knowledge of the potential influences of race, ethnicity, culture, gender, disability, sexual orientation, poverty and other factors influencing social exclusion -Examination of research data to identify effective practices to address and reduce discrimination and promote achievement. To develop a range of appropriate counselling and therapeutic skills and the ability to practise these in appropriate contexts: -Knowledge of the principles and skills of counselling and how to apply these to professional practice -Knowledge of other approaches, such as solution focused brief therapy, cognitive behaviour therapy and neuro-linguistic programming, and how these skills apply to professional practice.