LEHSS - Understanding and Supporting Emotionally-based School Avoidance (EBSA)
This session forms part of the LEHSS Targeted Support Pathway of Support
What is this training about?
This session will briefly review theory and models for understanding anxiety and stress in children and young people. We will then introduce a compassionate-mind approach to understanding anxiety, which is an evolution-based theory based on our brain's emotional control systems.
We will then think about how these theories help us understand EBS, and how to use these ideas to support students who struggle with attendance, and communicate this way of thinking with their families.
What will you learn and gain from this training:
- An introduction to models of stress and anxiety and general principles for understanding and supporting students who experience these difficulties.
- Understanding how anxiety can affect school attendance, and good practice ideas for how to support students and their families when attendance is an issue.
- Practical strategies and resources that are effective to use as a school professional.
PLEASE NOTE: this training session is only available to staff employed by schools and colleges within the Lancashire County Council area. Places cannot be allocated to people employed by other services or who work in schools outside this area.This training is fully funded by LCC and there is no charge to staff directly employed by a school or college within the LCC area.
Please use your school or college email on registration to demonstrate your eligibility.
Presentation slides and resources will be shared with all attendees after each session. We aim to foster a safe, confidential space in our training sessions where attendees are comfortable to contribute and share experiences if they wish.
We do not allow the use of AI note-taking tools within our training sessions, and if AI tools join a meeting they will be removed and excluded from the session.
