CYPN Seminar: Understanding Adolescent Behaviour at School

This event will be the first in a series hosted by the newly re-formed Children and Young People Network (CYPN) at York.  Poppy Nash will speak about understanding disruptive behaviour at school from a psychological/psychodynamic perspective.  Alison Smalley’s talk will subsequently focus on implementing the HEEADESSS toolkit (Goldenring & Rosen, 2004), in understanding key indicators of adolescent behaviour.  

There will be an opportunity for discussion following the talks and the event will close with a reception in the ARRC Foyer.  You are very welcome to join us and we hope to see you there!

Poppy Nash is a Lecturer in Education at the University of York.  She took up this post in 2011 to assist in setting up the Psychology in Education Research Centre in the Department of Education.  Prior to this appointment, she trained as a Speech and Language Therapist and spent many years as a researcher in the Department of Psychology (University of York), including working in the Stress Research Unit and Centre for Reading and Language within the Department of Psychology.  Poppy has developed various school-based interventions for both primary and secondary schools on enhancing resilience in vulnerable learners and addressing emotional barriers to learning.   Her recent research projects have focused on understanding disruptive behaviour at secondary school from a psychological/psychodynamic perspective, and looking at mental well-being in Sixth Form students.

Alison Smalley trained as Registered General Nurse in London before specialising in Children’s Nursing in Leeds where she worked in children’s oncology, paediatric surgery and children’s medical and surgical day care. With a special interest in the psychological health care needs of children and adolescents in hospital, she completed a BA Hons in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in 1998, and later an MSc in Health Professional Education in 2008.

She joined the Department of Health Sciences in 2000 as a nurse lecturer and has recently become pathway lead for the BSc in Health and Social Care Practice (Child and Adolescent Mental Health), and supports both general and paediatric pre-registration nursing students undertaking the BSC (Hons) Nursing programme. 

Alison has a special interest in child and adolescent development and mental health, adolescent health care issues specifically related to chronic illness and transition and coordinates child and adolescent mental health care education and practice experience for pre-registration Child Field BSc students. She also has a special interest in initiatives that might promote and enhance emotional resilience and mental health in school.

The event is free and everyone is welcome. Admission is by free ticket only, tickets are available at Eventbrite.