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School Anxiety & Emotional-Based School Avoidance in Northern Ireland: How Progeny Education Supports Home Educating Families and Isolated Learners
When School Feels Impossible: Understanding EBSA and School Refusal Across Northern Ireland, more families are facing the reality of children who simply cannot attend school due to emotional distress. Emotionally Based School Avoidance (EBSA)—sometimes called school refusal or school anxiety—is not a matter of choice. It is a response to internal struggles often rooted in trauma, rejection, bullying, unmet special educational needs, or neurodivergent profiles. Children with E
Progeny Team
May 302 min read
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Understanding Self-Harm: A Compassionate Guide for Young People and Parents
At Progeny, based in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, we meet young people with extraordinary stories. Stories often marked by pain and...
Progeny Team
Nov 25, 20243 min read
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Finding the Right Educational Support for Teens Struggling with Anxiety and Emotional School Refusal in Northern Ireland
At Progeny, we understand the unique challenges families face when a child experiences emotional school refusal.
Progeny Team
Nov 21, 20242 min read
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The Slow Release of Safety: A Journey Towards Self-Regulation in Young People
In the realm of therapeutic impact, the creation of a safe environment is paramount, especially when working with young people.
Progeny Team
May 21, 20243 min read
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Challenging Life Stories
Everyone has a story and for many young people this can be very challenging and often overwhelming. These stories tend to include one or...
Progeny Team
Dec 27, 20232 min read
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Progeny's Holistic Approach
Combining therapy and mentoring can be a powerful approach for healing childhood trauma, offering a rich and multifaceted support system...
Progeny Team
Dec 21, 20232 min read
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Childhood Trauma - a brief overview.
Childhood trauma refers to any event or series of events that overwhelm a child's ability to cope, causing significant emotional,...
Progeny Team
Dec 21, 20231 min read
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Mentors, our young people need you.
In our therapeutic work with adolescents, it is so clear that we live in an age where a whole generation of young people are afraid to be...
Progeny Team
May 5, 20223 min read
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Is wellbeing less important than league tables?
Human Connection... Humans were created to be in community – we are deeply social beings. For many young people of school age, school is...
Progeny Team
Mar 1, 20227 min read
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