Are you an adoptive parent or kinship / carer / foster parent whose child is struggling with school? Facilitated by clinical psychologist Dr. Naomi Fisher, this online workshop can help you understand why things may not be working for your child at school, and what you can do about it.
Book your FREE place
Wed, 7 May 2025 12pm – 1:30pm
- Suitable for: Adoptive families, foster families, kinship and carer families.
- Location: Online
- Date and time: Wed, 7 May 2025 12pm – 1:30pm BST
- Cost:
- £16.99 including recording
- £11.50 live webinar only
- Free to adoptive parents with BFS code.
- 100 free places available
Your child just isn’t happy at school. They protest in the mornings, or have 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, but as an adoptive parent, you don’t want to reinforce avoidance or challenging behaviour. You worry that you’re not ‘getting it right’ as an adoptive parent. In this webinar Dr Naomi Fisher, clinical psychologist, will discuss what often happens when a child says they don’t want to go to school. She’ll go through the various ways in which children show their distress, and different causes underlying problems with school attendance. She’ll talk 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, she’ll explain how various professional approaches work (or don’t). After 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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Topics covered:
- 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.
Further workshop information
Benefits of attending:
- Understand the different reasons your child might be struggling with school.
- Learn ways to evaluate whether an intervention is likely to help or not.
- Get practical suggestions as to how you can help.
What’s involved?
Naomi usually talks for about 20 minutes at a time and then there will be a brief opportunity to interact in the chat. Questions about individual situations cannot be responded to because Naomi cannot give clinical advice without knowing the background of the child and family. Everyone who signs up using the Beacon Family Services code will be sent the recording following the presentation, and it will be viewable for 30 days.
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.
What parents say about us…
“This session gave me a really good boost and I now know I’m not alone.”
“I never knew how much I needed this until I started, but knew I was burning out. I got so much out of it personally and lots to take away.”
“I have not just a greater understanding after this workshop but feeling that what we are living is real and not just our perception and that someone else gets it.”
Further support for parents
If you or someone you know is struggling with family relationships, Beacon Family Services can help. We provide a range of therapies and resources to support parents, children and families including our Connect For Kids Theraplay® group and parent workshops on a variety of topics, as well as access to peer support groups.
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