Pictures: Courtesy of Appletree School, Cumbria and Park PRU, Ipswich.
Welcome to the Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties Association web-site.
About SEBDA
For over fifty years, our multi-professional Association (Charity Number 258730) has represented the 'behaviour', disaffection and mental health difficulties field at regional and national level, contributing to government consultations and to research initiatives.
SEBDA's membership consists of teachers, educational psychologists, education officers, social, care, youth and mental health professionals who work with or for children and young people said to have SEBD (or in DfE language 'BESD'), who are disaffected (with behavioural difficulties) or who have mental health difficulties.
SEBDA provides its members with up-to-date information, support and professional development through its magazine/newsletter, research journal, networking and web-site.
SEBDA provides accredited specialist training at master's and first degree level in partnership with the University of Leicester and stages well-received professional development events across Britain.
For more information
- On our newsletter 'SEBDA News', the SEBDA research journal 'Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties' and other resources - go to the Resources page
- About SEBDA professional development and consultancy services - go to the Events and Training page
- About SEBDA - go to the Information page
- About contacting us - see below or go to the Contacts page
Additional information and resources for members
If you are a member, you can register as a SEBDA website user by contacting the head office and gain free access to info and resources in restricted areas of this site. Please have your membership code ready.
Already registered? Then enter your username and password in the login box at the top of the screen.
Essential reading from SEBDA and Jessica Kingsley Publishers
How to Help Children and Young People with Complex Behavioural Difficulties (SEBD/BESD); a guide for practitioners working in educational settings,
Ted Cole and Barbara Knowles
From www.jkp.com, £18.99, ISBN 978 1 84905 0494 or major booksellers.
''Perfect reading for those practitioners newly introduced to the field...an excellent overview of what's out there for more experienced practitioners''
(Jon Aidrie, Children and Young People Now);
''A very wide and informative potted picture of ... practical knowledge, theory and statutory background...in just over 200 easily read pages. The authors do this with authority, insight and accomplishment''
(Steve Lord, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties).
Latest News
Latest issue of Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties journal
Not to be missed - the 2012 SEBDA National Conference
23-24 March, Hythe, Kent: 'Passion is the Key - Unlocking Pathways to Success'. Speakers include Charlie Henry, HMI, Prof. John Visser, Dr Tina Rae and Dave Colley. Wide range of workshops. Join us on the Kent coast for our 59th annual get together. Early-bird reductions.
Full details and booking form
New guidance from the DfE
1.) To see the new guidance on 'behaviour and discipline in schools' for heads and teachers, click here. This document provides links to other new government publications, for example, on physical interventions.
2.) To see the latest government advice on dealing with allegations against school staff, click here.
Master's and first degree level specialist training in SEBD/BESD and/or mental health difficulties
Help your career by signing up for our popular and highly rated SEBDA/University of Leicester courses in SEBD/behaviour. We are taking enquiries for courses starting in Septermber, 2012. The content will be very similar to the present courses, although moving to greater interactivity and web-delivery.
Colour brochure | Full details
Bespoke SEBD/ BESD training at your workplace.
For further details of what we offer, including a range of day and half-day professional development days from SEBDA trainers, please email Chair, Prof. John Visser at John.Visser@northampton.ac.uk.
Interview with Harry Daniels
A recent interview with Harry Daniels, Editor of Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties has been recorded as an audio file with transcript. Listen to the interview