About Diane Quinn
Diane Quinn's Experience
Diane Quinn worked for several years as an Educational Psychologist in Newcastle Upon Tyne’s Child and Family Guidance Service, where she co-authored a manual published by Hodder and Stoughton, entitled ‘Problem Management’.
She worked a further five years in Gateshead before moving to Hartlepool Borough Council’s Educational Psychology Service, first as Senior Educational Psychologist then as Principal Educational Psychologist, managing a team of psychologists and undertaking a full range of clinical work.
In September 2007 Diane Quinn left Hartlepool in order to set up ‘Learning Curves’ and to complete her doctorate at Newcastle University. Diane has been invited to offer training to post graduates at Newcastle University during the forthcoming year, in Narrative Therapy, which is a special interest of hers.
- Comprehensive Intellectual Assessment of Children and Young People to identify intellectual giftedness, learning difficulties and cognitive strengths and weaknesses:
- Assessment will provide a measure of global intellectual functioning, as well as measures of some of the specific abilities required for learning, including processing speed, working memory, and fluid reasoning.
- Measures of academic achievement can also be provided.
- Advice for effective educational and psychological interventions will be given, tailored to meet the needs of each individual child.
- Psychological Therapy to address a range of social and emotional difficulties.
Stress is ubiquitous, affecting all of us at some time or another. Stress can be caused by outside pressures, such as finding schoolwork too difficult or having difficult relations within the family. It can also be caused or exacerbated by inner thoughts and feelings.
Diane Quinn will assist people(parents and/or their children) to move into a new territory of life that is consistent with their values, skills, competencies and preferred way of living, disempowering the unwanted effects of the problem. Remember this: The problem is the problem (the person is not the problem) - Training to teachers and other adults working with children. Learning Curves provides introductory training in counselling skills and psychological therapies for adults in schools and in other agencies, who work with children and young people.
A person may have problem behaviour, but that doesn't mean that the person is the problem.
Learning Curves Private Educational Psychology Service operates throughout the North of England, from Northumberland to North Yorkshire and from Cumberland via Durham to Tyne and Wear. Our Educational Psychologist will visit you and work with you in your home.
