Are you an adoptive parent or kinship / carer / foster parent whose child is struggling with school? Donate what you can to download our popular online webinar facilitated by clinical psychologist Dr. Naomi Fisher. Watch the recording in your own time to explore why things may not be working for your child at school, and what you can do about it.
Fed up of school not getting it?
These strategies can help adoptive parents and kinship carers take positive action when your child is struggling with school, but school doesn’t understand.
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Your child protests in the mornings, or has meltdowns at hometime. They say they don’t want to go, and you feel torn between their distress and their education. School tell you to perservere and keep pushing your child to go to school. As an adoptive parent, you don’t want to reinforce avoidance or challenging behaviour. You worry that you’re not ‘getting it right’, and it’s tough to try to manage the school system on top of caring for your child.
In our webinar recording for adoptive parents or kinship / foster parents and carers, Dr Naomi Fisher, clinical psychologist, discusses what often happens when a child says they don’t want to go to school. The school doesn’t get it, and you’re left feeling like you have to manage the situation yourself.
In this recording of our popular webinar facilitated by clinical psychologist Dr. Naomi Fisher, you’ll discover a range of strategies. Watch it in your own time to explore out why things may not be working for your child at school, and how to take positive action.
Topics and strategies:
- Attendance and behaviour: How children show us that things aren’t working at school.
- Common interventions suggested by schools.
- Why these can backfire for adopted children in particular.
- What to do instead.
Dr. Fisher goes through the various ways in which children show their distress, and different causes underlying problems with school attendance. She talks about how this can be especially difficult for adoptive or kinship carer families, and how to navigate understanding your child’s difficulties without misinterpreting the situation. Drawing on her clinical experience, Dr. Naomi Fisher explains how various professional approaches work (or don’t).
After watching the webinar you’ll feel more informed about what’s going on with your child, and better able to make decisions which focus on your child’s wellbeing.
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About Dr. Naomi Fisher
This workshop will be hosted and facilitated by Dr. Naomi Fisher. Naomi is a clinical psychologist who specialises in trauma, autism and alternative ways to learn. She is the author of several books, including When the Naughty Step Makes Things Worse and The Teenager’s Guide to Burnout (both with illustrator Eliza Fricker). She works with families when school is going wrong for their child. She runs webinars for parents on helping their children with common problems and can be found at www.naomifisher.co.uk. You can follow her on Facebook, LinkedIn and Substack.
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