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Solutions Focused Coaching in Schools – Early Help for mental health, wellbeing and behaviour

Solutions Focused Coaching in Schools is a highly effective way of strengthening the engagement and behaviour of all children and young people. Taking up this simple approach builds capacity to offer Early Help and preventative support.

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Putting the wellbeing and mental health of children first as they learn, grow and develop means …..

placing relationship, consistency & empathy at the heart of school pastoral practice and policy
knowing that children are doing their best even when it might not look like it
reconnecting behaviour with learning and good mental and physical health
confirming the need for rules & reminders to provide structure for the school community without seeing them as the only route to learning and growth

SFC in Schools – structured kindness for fast and effective Early Help for all children with challenging or withdrawn behaviour

Solutions Focused Coaching is the answer to a long-standing problem; what do you do when children and young people don’t respond to rewards and punishments? SFCIS is not driven by diagnosis, it is centred on the whole child, a future-focused way of working which places the student as the active agent in their own growth and development, working in a self-directed way towards their own preferred future. Children and […]

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Under: Mental Health Awareness, Solutions Focused coaching

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“Children’s mental health services swamped” – what can we do?

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Posted: April 22, 2022
Under: Early help, Mental Health Awareness, Solutions Focused coaching

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Solution Focused Education – the positive pathway to wellbeing and behaviour for learning

How can we get children to behave properly in school, to take their work seriously and stop messing about? The answer offered by the DfE is to do more of what’s done already. Focus on the bad behaviour you can see, put aside thinking about what might underly it, and apply graded punishment it until it stops. Knowing what children find unpleasant the pain can […]

Posted: April 3, 2022
Under: behaviour management, Early help, first response, Hope, Mental Health Awareness, pastoral support, Solutions Focused coaching, structured kindness, Uncategorized

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