Bishops Support Unit (BSU)

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Bishops Support Unit (BSU)

• Grade 8 Parents Presentation
• February 2015

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The BSUs vision

• To promote the optimal
• psychological, emotional and social
• development and well-being
• of pupils and academic staff
• at Bishops.

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Services offered

• Counselling and crisis intervention
• Brief psychotherapy
• Arrange referrals
• Management of boys with specific problems
• Arrange psychiatric, psychological and
  educational assessments
• Co-ordinate exam concessions
• Psycho education courses for parents staff
• Consultations with parents
• Concussion testing

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Where are we?

• In the double-storey
• directly opposite
• Kidd House

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BSU Staff

• Liz King (Admin Manager)
• Pete Farlam
• (Clinical Psychologist)
• Carey Upham
• (Educational Psychologist)

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BSU Consultants

• Angela Ledwidge (Academic Support Specialist)
• Casey Anley(Ed Psych intern), Cayley Conway (Ed
  Psych intern) outside referrals to Ed-Psychs in
  private practice
• Referrals Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Reading
  Language therapists etc.

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Making an appointment

• Ideally boys should make their own appointments
• See Liz King upstairs In the BSU
• Mon Thur 800 1515
• Fri 800 1400
• Crisis slots are available