Chris Shaldon

Academic and Professional Tutor

Dr Chris Shaldon is a Chartered Educational Psychologist with extensive knowledge and experience having worked in this role in London for 25 years. Chris is currently a Senior Educational Psychologist in an inner-city Local Authority. 

Exploring the experience of supervision for Trainee Educational Psychologists was the focus of his professional doctorate and he is passionate about developing the practice of supervision for trainees, qualified colleagues and more widely for other professionals. Chris has been a placement field work tutor for Y1 trainees on the M4 course for several years as well as a personal supervisor and has developed inter-professional supervision in his LA work setting. 

 

Qualifications

• Doctorate in Educational and Child Psychology (D.Ed.Ch. Psych) – Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust / University of Essex
• Diploma in Systemic Practice with Families and Couples (Distinction) – Institute of Family Therapy
• Certificate in Systemic Practice with Families and Couples (Distinction) – Institute of Family Therapy
• MSc in Educational Psychology – Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
• BSc in Psychology – Birkbeck College, University of London
• PGCE in Drama & English – Middlesex University

 

Memberships of professional bodies

• Registered Practitioner Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
• Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS) 

 

Teaching roles

• Supervision of trainees
• Teaching on Supervision
• Work Discussion Groups
• Marking
• Recruitment

 

Research interests

• Supervision in Education
• Supervision on Supervision 
• Contracting in Supervision 
• Emotional Literacy Support Assistant training

 

Selected publications

McBay, C., Wariebi, N., Chinnéide, E N., Douglas, M., & Shaldon, C. (2023) “Every ending requires us to begin anew”: Endings and beginnings in supervisory relationships. Educational and Child Psychology, 40 (4) 56-68. 

Shaldon, C., McBay, C., Keaney, C., Kennedy, E-K., Reid, S., Schnackenberg, N., & Walker, S. (2021) Feelings, relationships and ‘being held’: Supervisee and supervisor experiences of psychodynamically informed supervision, in C. Arnolds, D. Bartle & X. Eloquin (Eds.) Learning from the Unconscious: Psychoanalytic approaches to educational psychology. London: Karnac. 

Kennedy, E-K., Keaney, C., Shaldon, C., & Canagaratnam, M. (2018) A relational model of supervision for applied psychological practice: professional growth through relating and reflecting. Educational Psychology in Practice, 32 (3) 282-299. 

Kennedy, E-K., Shaldon, C., & Canagaratnam, M. (2017) The use of projective assessment with children and young people. Assessment and Development Matters 9 (2) 25-28.

Dennison, A., McBay,C., & Shaldon,C. (2006) Every Team Matters:The contribution educational psychology can make to effective teamwork. Educational & Child Psychology, 23 (4).

Cullen,K., & Shaldon,C., (2003) Learning to read children’s emotional experience. Educational & Child Psychology., 20 (4)

Shaldon, C. (2002) ‘Major Tom to ground control’ in Debate DECP, 104, 24-27 

Shaldon, C. (2002) The Future’s bright, the Future’s BRIEF in Debate DECP, 103, 8-10