Information for Professionals

Our Role

Our Service is committed to: 

• Keeping children and young people central to all we do.
• Working in partnership with children and young people, parents, teachers, other services and voluntary organisations.
• Helping to find solutions to improve the learning, social and emotional environment for all children and young people

The Service is available to all Highland Council residents and is part of the Education, Culture and Sport Service. The Service is structured at a local level and each school has a liaison Psychologist. The unique contribution psychologists can make to working with young people stems from their background and training in, for example, child development, theories of learning and working in organisational and educational systems and emotional literacy.

 As well as the work outlined under Our Aims  the Service  provides advice and consultation to education managers and officials within the Highland Council on school placement and support needs for individual children and young people. We are involved in local and national strategic working groups on a wide range of issues, including the Looked After Children Strategy Group. In relation to strategic and Council-wide developments, the Principal Educational Psychologist is generally the most appropriate contact.

Educational Psychologists' Code of Conduct

We seek to address problems within the social context, e.g. the learning environment, the family etc and Service practice is based on the principle of the most effective, least intrusive intervention required to find solutions to difficulties. 

Our Code of Ethics  is based on four ethical Principles.
These are:

• Respect
• Competence
• Responsibility
• Integrity

Confidentiality breaches are restricted to those exceptional
circumstances under which there appears sufficient evidence to raise
serious concern about; (a) the safety of clients; (b) the safety of
other persons who may be endangered by the client’s behaviour;
or (c) the health, welfare or safety of children or vulnerable adults

More information about our Code of Ethics can be found at this link