This training is for you if you have ever had a morning when your teen doesn’t want to go to school whether this has been a rare occasion or every day, and whether they have managed to get to school or not the same strategies apply. 

This is a teaching course about how parents can understand and support their teenagers and does not replace therapy.

Where there is a significant clinical presentation psychological intervention with your teen may be required to help shift your teen's school attendance. 

The strategies taught in this course may help you identify the need for therapy or help your teen to agree to engage with therapy.

This training is for you if you have ever had a morning when your teen doesn’t want to go to school whether this has been a rare occasion or every day, and whether they have managed to get to school or not the same strategies apply. 

Research shows that intervening early can help stop a more entrenched problem from developing. There are also common times were school reluctance that appeared to have gone away re-emerges. This course will help you learn what to look out for to know if the problem is likely to arise again in the future.

Working out whether a headache or stomach ache is due to anxiety, stress or a physical illness is tough. Physical illnesses do impact school attendence. Chronic illnesses can make school attedence very difficult. 

This course will teach you strategies for how to talk to your teen to help you both navigate decisions about school attendence when they have physical symptoms to maximise school engagement.

Yes. In this course I will cover the particular things to look out for that contribute to school reluctance in teens with ASD and/or ADHD and how to communicate with your teen about their difficulties in a way that works for them.

This training is for you if you have ever had a morning when your teen doesn’t want to go to school whether this has been a rare occasion or every day, and whether they have managed to get to school or not the same strategies apply. 

This is a teaching course about how parents can understand and support their teenagers and does not replace therapy.

Where there is a significant clinical presentation psychological intervention with your teen may be required to help shift your teen's school attendance. 

The strategies taught in this course may help you identify the need for therapy or help your teen to agree to engage with therapy.

At this stage no other live trainings on this topic are planned. This training will be recorded and available to anyone who registers. If you have questions you can email them to me prior to the training and I will seek to answer your questions during the training.

No. This is a specialised training for parents of tweens or teens.

Yes. While this training (and the examples I will provide) will be focused on parents of children 11 and older, the strategies taught in this training are relevant for parents of younger children. 

Yes. No matter the reason your teen is reluctant to go to school this training is applicable. 

There are many different reasons teens can be reluctant to go to school and the strategies we will cover apply no matter the reason you uncover.

The best way to get in touch is to email me [email protected] and we will get right back to you.

This event will be 90mins long.