ELSA

Emotional Literacy Support Assistant (ELSA)

Do you have an ELSA on your team?

Now more than ever, schools need staff members who can deliver bespoke programmes of intervention to children who are struggling emotionally or socially.

Course Content

ELSA is an educational psychology led intervention that promotes emotional literacy in schools. At edPsychology Solutions the programme is delivered by Dr Zoe Owen, who holds the ELSA Quality Mark.

ELSA Training

The training element of the course consists of six days covering:

Theories explaining children’s emotional development
Understanding resilience and interventions that build it
Creating bespoke intervention programmes
Brains and Behaviour
Universal Trauma Informed Care
Understanding Autism
Teaching Social Skills
Developing Emotional Literacy
Effective intervention skills

The role title of ELSA may only legitimately be used by people who:

have attended / are attending an ELSA training course delivered by a qualified educational psychologist
regularly attend half-termly group supervision led by a qualified educational psychologist
are currently delivering bespoke programmes of support to individual pupils and sometimes small groups

Let's work together

Get in touch and ask us how Educational Psychology can support your children, staff and the whole setting.