Successfully Implementing Therapeutic Interventions – for schools, colleges, education settings

Course introduction

What we will cover throughout the day

• Unpick the research on the effectiveness of school-based interventions;

• Look at ways to ensure successful implementation of any intervention;

• Discuss which interventions to use based on needs;

• Look at the considerations needed to run individual and group interventions;

• Implement effective interventions to support social skills;

• Implement self-regulation (anger/SEMH) interventions;

• Implement effective interventions for ASD pupils/students;

• Incorporate positive change into behaviour interventions;

• Unpick essential staff facilitator qualities;

• Understand why some therapeutic interventions fail and ways to avoid the pit falls;

• Discuss how to ensure longer term effectiveness;

• Assess cost benefit and evaluate interventions;

• Leave with a ready to use step-by-step guide.

Target audience

Aimed at anyone who works in therapeutic interventions or looking at setting up a type of therapeutic intervention in school, college or setting. Ideal for pastoral support, nurture group staff, family engagement staff, SENCo ALENCo, behaviour support, designated teacher, special education staff, support staff, classroom assistant, LAC co-ordinator, safeguarding officer, educational psychologists.

See what others have to say about us

“Amazing! Highly relevant, thought provoking and informative. I feel well equipped to raise awareness of the effects of trauma and how to try and unravel things to provide relevant support.”

“I've been on several NSMTC courses and can highly recommend them. The course today has been really useful and I know I have strategies and ideas that I can disseminate immediately to colleagues in school."

“I feel the training today has left me fully prepared to launch the Scheme to impact positively on the school community as a whole – an excellent day and very worthwhile. I would fully recommend.”