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.

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"Excellent training from NSMT on ACEs. The session was highly responsive, with Nic actively listening to what individuals wanted to take away from the course and consistently referring back to this throughout. The training was extremely helpful, with clear, practical strategies that can be implemented immediately to support pupils. It was engaging and interactive without pressure. Despite being delivered on Zoom, it was more engaging than many face-to-face courses. Thank you!"

“Great training. We feel like we have an arsenal of strategies to implement in our setting. Nicola was amazing! I would highly recommend.”

"What a wonderful and useful course this was. Excellently led by Nicola S. Morgan, there were so many intelligent approaches to reaching the anxious student - devices that will most certainly be utilised by myself and my team. Thank you so much!"