Emma Ní Chinnéide, Zahra Ahmed and Bethanie Atinuke Sonola
Welcome to our podcast, Conversations about Consultation. This is a series of digital audio files, made with a wide range of guests who have been generous enoug...
Feeling seen and bringing the 'storied self' into consultation - Dr Michael O'Loughlin
After teaching for seven years in Dublin, Michael O’Loughlin earned a Ph.D. in Psychology from Columbia University in New York. He later trained as a psychoanalyst at Adelphi University on Long Island, New York. He is Professor in the College of Education and Health Sciences and in the Derner School of Psychology at Adelphi University. He teaches courses for teachers, school psychologists and clinical psychologists in training. Of the many books he has authored or edited, five of those books focus specifically on children and adolescents including Precarities of 21st century childhoods, released in 2023. He is also editor of the book series, Critical Childhood & Youth Studies from Bloomsbury. He directs the Adelphi Asylum Project. He has a private practice for psychotherapy and psychoanalysis with a strong emphasis on child, adolescent, and family work, on Long Island.Web: michaeloloughlinphd.com Faculty profile: https://www.adelphi.edu/faculty/profiles/profile.php?PID=0064
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An introduction to our new co-host - Bethanie Atinuke Sonola
We're meeting with Bethanie Atinuke Sonola, year 2 trainee Educational Psychologist completing her doctorate at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. This short episode is to say a big welcome to Bethanie. We learn about Bethanie and her journey into training and share are some of the things that she hopes the podcast will explore during her time as a co-host.
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A multicultural, gender, and sexually diverse affirming consultation framework - Dr Jeffrey Brown and Starr Greensky
We are so lucky to have with us Dr Jeffrey Brown and Starr Greensky. Jeff is currently an assistant professor at San Diego State University, on the School Psychology Program and Starr is a Student and School Psychology intern, working with Jeff. We speak with Jeff and Starr about the development and application of Jeff's and other colleagues multicultural, gender, and sexually diverse affirming school‐based consultation framework. We also speak about contextual influences, colonialism and working with in a diverse community. We were so privileged to speak with Starr and Jeff, they shared such interesting insights. We hope you enjoy listen to this episode!
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Children and young people’s participation in consultation - Dr Anwen J Marshall
Dr Anwen Marshall graduated as an Educational Psychologist from Bristol University in 2021. She currently works in Bristol City Council where she also holds the role of ‘person-centred champion’. She supports person-centred work in her service and with colleagues. Before training as an Educational Psychologist (EP), Anwen worked as an Assistant EP in London for two-years, based in a primary school.For her doctoral research, Anwen explored EPs’ views on children and young peoples participation in consultation meetings. This involved of two phases of data collection, phase one was an online questionnaire and phase two consisted of appreciative informed semi-structured interviews with EPs. Her research found a difference between beliefs and current practice, where trainee EPs/EPs generally believed in the benefits of participation, but EP practice often not mirroring this. Attitudes, facilitators and barriers were explored and Anwen very generously shared some of these on todays episode. Anwen also share elements from the model for participation she created as a product of her research. The model considers both systemic strategies and practical meeting strategies. We were really privileged to speak with Anwen about her research and hope this promotes reflection on our practice.
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Reflecting on school culture and collaboration with school leaders and staff members - Laleh Laverick
We were so privileged to speak with Laleh Laverick in this episode about such a range of important factors influencing schools at the moment. Laleh speaks from a wealth of expertise and experience from her role as a Leadership and Management Adviser at Hackney Education as well as the various roles she has held in inner city primary schools for over 20 years. Prior to joining Hackney Education, Laleh served as an Executive Headteacher of 6 inner city schools. She was also an NLE linked to a Teaching School and as part of her work, she supported ‘Women Leading in Education’ and ‘BAME leadership’ programmes. Before becoming an Executive Headteacher, she worked in range of roles many of them in the field of inclusion and curriculum development. She has also served as a school governor. Laleh has published articles in the Chartered College of Teaching’s journal and in journals on Early Years Education. In recent years, she has supported school leaders through management and system changes. Laleh believes that schools are at their best when their vision and ethos are clearly communicated by school leaders to all stakeholders and the culture of schools is one of high ambition for their communities. We loved speaking with Laleh about so much of her experiences working in various roles in UK schools. We reflect on the current factors influencing schools in London and SEN departments generally, as well as the important role of understanding varying professional cultures when contracting and collaborating. We hope you enjoy listening to this episode and we look forward to reading some of your reflections about the topics discussed!
Welcome to our podcast, Conversations about Consultation. This is a series of digital audio files, made with a wide range of guests who have been generous enough to share their thinking on the topic of consultation in education. Our aim is to provide thought-provoking and engaging content that you can access at times and in places convenient to you, growing out of our shared interest in consultation.Emma is the course director of the M4 doctoral training in educational psychology at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. She also leads the Y1 module on Consultation and is part of the International School Psychology Association (ISPA) - consultation task force.Jessica, Emily, Bethanie and Zahra are all current or graduated doctoral students from the Tavistock and Portman M4 training. Our current co-hosts Bethanie and Zahra currently work in or are on placement in local authority settings making use of consultation in their work.Consultation has any number of different definitions and models. Given our training and background, we are especially interested in consultation as it is used in schools and community settings. We see consultation as a particular type of professional helping relationship, one that holds central the idea that it is the relationship between the consultant and those with whom they work that makes the difference. However, one aim of Conversations about Consultation is to speak with guests who perhaps use different lenses, modalities and approaches and who offer something unique and distinctive that can complement or contrast with our own. It may be a current trainee on a different programme whose research interests include consultation, or an early career practitioner reflecting on consultative working in schools. We speak with experienced practitioners from other disciplines who bring their expertise in working with children young people and their families; as well as psychologists who have been working in the field of consultation research and practice for many years. We hope you will find a conversation to listen to that engages your interest, offers a different perspective or even just provokes a new question or idea that leads to further conversations of your own.You can follow us on BlueSky to join in the conversation at @CACpodcast.bsky.social
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