How Parents Can Help Teens deal with School Pressure
About
Teenagers' attitudes towards pressure, especially at school, ranging from negativity, lack of motivation, and inconsistent study habits to perfectionism and overworking, can significantly impact their mental health, leading to anxiety, depression, and burnout. Parental pressure, although well-intentioned, can harm self-esteem if parents' definitions of success differ from their child's. Remember, your child is their own person.
Cathy Ellott, Head of Putney & Streatham High, and Dr. Sarah-Jane Knight will discuss how to build an environment for teens that balances support and challenge and fosters a healthy attitude towards learning. They will explore how schools and homes promoting realistic, open communication, emotional support, and a balanced approach to studying and results, can help teens focus on their own expectations and abilities, and build their resilience through trial and error.
Speakers
Cathy Ellott
Head
Ms Cathy Ellott joined Streatham and Clapham High School as the new Head this September. Having worked in a range of top schools, she is a passionate advocate for all girls’ education and the confidence, camaraderie and friendship it inspires. She is proud to be part of the Girls Day School Trust and to share a vision for the future of girls’ learning that is empowering, relevant, ambitious and fun. Having studied English at Oxford, she is committed to academic excellence and yet she knows, both as a parent and a teacher, that each child has her own journey and that the school’s community and partnership with parents is crucial so that every girl may flourish.
Sarah-Jane Knight
Dr
Dr Sarah-Jane Knight is a Clinical Psychologist who is skill with Cognitive Based Therapy, systemic & psychodynamic approaches, group psychoanalytic psychotherapy, attachment-focussed therapies and approaches used in treating trauma.
Sarah-Jane has many years of experience working in outpatient and inpatient services in the NHS and with private providers. She set up a psychology service abroad, working within a different cultural context and specifically with expatriates and their families together with the company employing/hosting them. She now heads up her own psychology practise, Commune Psychology.
Her depth of experience helps her to understand and articulate complex difficulties and to collaborate to develop a creative and pragmatic approach to find the best way forward.
