Lucinda Powell (BSc, PGCE, MA)
Teacher|Podcaster|Speaker
Lucinda Powell is Assistant Director of Teaching and Learning and a psychology teacher at Abingdon School. She has taught psychology since 2002 in a variety of schools in London and Oxfordshire. She also works to support teachers to use evidenced based psychology in all aspects of their classroom practice, her Podcast ‘Psychology in the Classroom’ brings psychological research directly to the classroom teacher. In addition Lucinda works as a coach on the School Mental Health Award at the Carnegie School of Excellence for Mental Health in Schools, runs teacher training and is the lead tutor for the Psychology PGCE for Initial Teacher Training at the National Institute of Teaching and Education (NITE).
Links:
Website: https://www.changingstatesofmind.com/
Twitter: @LucindaP0well
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/changingstatesofmind
Instagram: @lucindap0well
Podcast (iTunes, Spotify, Amazon): Psychology in the Classroom
Lucinda Powell reflects on an early evaluation of the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Trailblazer programme, which looked at the first 25 ‘Trailblazer’ sites implementing mental health support teams in schools.
Lucinda Powell reports on the findings of the huge MYRIAD (My Resilience in Adolescence) project, which looked at the effectiveness of school based mindfulness training across more than 100 UK schools.
Lucinda Powell explores a recent systematic review and meta-analysis which finds that problematic smartphone use in young people is associated with poorer mental health.
Lucinda Powell summarises a recent systematic review about the association between anxiety and poor attendance at school, which suggests links between anxiety and unexcused absences/truancy, and school refusal.
Lucinda Powell considers a recent systematic review of qualitative evidence on stigma related to targeted school-based mental health interventions. The review provides some interesting findings and useful strategies, given the recent UK government announcement that they are backing plans to make specialist mental health provision available in schools.
Lucinda Powell summarises a systematic review of universal resilience-focused interventions targeting child and adolescent mental health in the school setting.
As we prepare for our Youth Mental Health Question Time event in London this evening, Lucinda Powell considers a meta-analysis looking at the effectiveness of interventions aimed at reducing teacher burnout.
