Emotionally-Based School Avoidance (EBSA) is rising across the UK and internationally, placing increasing pressure on schools, services, and families. This three-hour online event explores what we currently know about EBSA, and how thinking, language, and responses have evolved in recent years. The session will examine the up-to-date research landscape, emerging international developments, and recovery-oriented approaches grounded in complex real-world cases. Designed for experienced professionals, this event will support proportionate, evidence-informed, and system-aware responses to EBSA.
Dr. Jerricah Holder and Dr. Caroline Bond will lead this session, a full programme will be detailed soon.
Booking
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Who should attend
Primary audience; Education Professionals (Classroom teachers, SENCOs, Educational Psychologists, Specialist teachers), Clinicians (Clinical Psychologists, CAMHS practitioners, ADHD specialists, Child & Adolescent Psychiatrists, CBT therapists working with ADHD. This event may also be of interest if you are; Medical (Paediatricians), Research, and systems professionals.
About the speakers
Dr. Jerricah Holder is an experienced Educational Psychologist who is passionate about the development of creative resources to empower children to have their voice heard. She has a specialism in supporting children who experience barriers in their educational attendance, and frequently presents at national conferences and trains other psychology services on Emotionally Based School Avoidance (EBSA). Jerricah promotes a more compassionate and child-centred approach to understanding and addressing barriers to attendance and school wellbeing. Moving away from the term school refuser, EBSA recognises the emotional complexity of school avoidance behaviours and the inextricable link to the wider environmental context, with multi-layered barriers existing across the child, the home, and the school context.
Dr. Caroline Bond is currently the Fieldwork Director for the Doctorate in Educational and Child Psychology at The University of Manchester, which is an accredited initial training programme for educational psychologists. She is an experienced educational psychologist (EP) who has worked as an autism specialist EP in the North West. Her research interests include educational interventions for children with autism, motor skills interventions for children with developmental difficulties and the supervision of applied psychologists.