This option is appropriate when you as parent want to discuss concerns you may have about your child/young person and to help with immediate understanding and/or strategies or to signpost you to the most appropriate next step.
If the child/young person is willing, the session can also be with the child/younger person. The session can also be with a school staff member discussing the child/young person anonymously. Alternatively, the session can be organised with both school and parents together, or parents and child/young person together.
It is mostly considered as a one-off session with a review, but a few sessions can be helpful in order to work on ongoing concerns.
The process uses principles of practice as devised by Patsy Wagner, and solution focussed brief therapeutic practices, also with Personal Construct psychology amongst other techniques
By completing this form, it is understood that as this child/young person’s parent/guardian or as the commissioning adult you have read, understood and agreed to the following terms and conditions about the forthcoming consultation.
It is also understood that, if you as a parent are commissioning this consultation, that by completing this form you are not expecting us to contact school or other involved professionals to gain their insight, and that you understand that this process is a collaborative consultation in confidence with you or with your child.
It is understand that, if you are school commissioning this consultation, that be completing this form you are agreeing to maintain the anonymity of the child, unless you gain parental permission, which is your responsibility.
If you are unable to complete this form and make payment, for whatever reason, please contact Caro on to discuss.
If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact Sonja on or Caro on caro@edpsych.co.uk.
Please allow 5 minutes to process and complete this form, it must be completed in its entirety, it cannot be saved and returned to.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
The Process:
The Consultation online will be delivered by Caro Strover-Green or a CSGA Associate Educational Psychologist by video call. The nature of the consultation will be to work with parents, or school and/or the child or young person/adult to get clarity over the problem/concerns that has triggered the referral, and to problem solve the situation using solution focussed techniques and psychological understanding of learning, development and influencing variables. Actions will then be agreed to help improve the situation, and a review date proposed. The options for consultation are listed below. You will need to select which option you want.
A summary of the session will be emailed as a written record, including the agreed actions from the consultation, within 1 week of the consultation.
Fees:
A one-off service charge of £15.
The deposit of £25, paid on submimssion of this booking form is nonrefundable and is deducted from the final bill.
The consultation is 1 hour and costs £100 plus the service charge £15.
If there are financial difficulties, please contact us to discuss payment options.
If there is no communication or prior agreement, interest will be applied to the invoice at 2% per month pro rata if the invoice is not paid within 7 days of the invoice being emailed to the client and a late fee of £30 may be incurred.
Payment terms:
Balance payment by internet transfer is preferred, and bank details are given on the invoice.
The written record is only released on completion of payment.
Not included:
The fee does not cover international telephone calls.
Cancellation:
If a consultation is cancelled prior to 48 hours of the session, the deposit, already paid, covers the cancellation fee. If the session is cancelled within 24 hours, the full cost may be charged to cover cover the loss of revenue if it is not possible to use the cancelled session for other work.
The child/young person/adult’s involvement in the consultation:
If the consultation will involve a child/young person and they are very anxious about the session, please contact Caro and we can arrange a short zoom for introductions and a general chat.
Data processing and storage – in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (Regulation (EU) 2016/679
Please read the following information carefully:
The written record of the consultation will be stored on Cliniko, for 5 years, which is secure and meets GDPR standards (for the purpose of reference, in the case of a request for future consultation, input or on request by parent/guardian for a copy if their copy has been lost).
During the time of the consultation process, information may also be stored on the working laptops which are all password protected.
Practitioners are ICO registered.
Copies of the written record are confidential and emailed to the parent/guardian/commissioning adult (and other authorised parents or family) as a pdf document, password protected in line with GDPR, unless otherwise requested by you.
Artificial Intelligence:
At times, CSGA uses GDPR compliant AI tools, mostly to help us process information, not to interpret or to generate hypothesis and ideas e.g. recording the consultation to support the production of the written record. AI tools that CSGA uses for processing information, only process what it has been given, rather than referring beyond e.g. the www. All AI processing is checked personally before it might be used in reports/written records.
Some AI tools are used for exploring information but references to the information given is then checked for validity.
