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Toilet-Related Anxiety
The first in ERIC's new series of special interest courses for healthcare professionals.
An Occupational Therapist's Guide to Toilet-Related Anxiety.
This interactive session will explore why children feel anxious about toileting and offer practical strategies to help when things get tricky. Using case studies and examples from clinical practice, we’ll examine how fear can impact bladder and bowel function. Through this understanding, we will explore why it’s essential for parents, teachers, healthcare professionals, and the rest of the village around the child, to build empathy for their experiences, and how we can achieve this in practice. Key strategies will be identified to support children who feel fearful about many aspects of toileting, including how to empower them to learn to use evidence-based relaxation strategies through relationship and regulation.
Course tutor
Tabitha Poole
Occupational Therapist
Tabitha Poole
Tabby is an Occupational Therapist (OT) with more than 13 years of experience working in paediatrics. Following the completion of her degree, Tabby worked as a paediatric OT across Western Australia, England, and Scotland. When she returned to Australia, Tabby continued study in the field of continence, whilst she worked for, and managed PEBBLES, a multidisciplinary continence team. When the funding for PEBBLES ceased, Tabby joined with her current business partner to create Continence Hub, a specialist, multidisciplinary continence team, serving clients across the lifespan with a variety of diagnoses and complex continence needs within Australia.
Tabby now splits her time between Miami, Florida, and Perth, Western Australia. She offers advice and support on all things continence via home visits and video consultations to clients worldwide through her second business, Toilet time with Tabby.
Believing that there's always more to learn about continence management, Tabby is enthusiastic about continuing her own education to ensure she practises in line with the best and most up-to-date evidence in the field. Tabby loves delivering training, and has presented at numerous workshops and training events, including the Australian National Conference on Incontinence.
Tabby started delivering ERIC training in 2023 on Healthy Bladders and Bowels, Nocturnal Enuresis and Toilet Training Including Children with Additional Needs.
When she is not talking about poo and wee, Tabby spends time with her husband Phil and little dog Tutu flying small planes, dancing, travelling and spending time outdoors.
Objectives
- Understand how feeling anxious can impact children physically and emotionally, and how this relates to toileting.
- Learn how to help parents, teachers and caregivers develop an empathic approach to implementing a toileting plan for children who feel anxious around the toilet.
- Understand why conventional approaches, such as rewards, may not work as a motivator to use the toilet for all children.
- Gain practical strategies for helping children who feel anxious around toileting achieve their toileting goals, through a regulation-based approach.
Programme
- To follow soon
Important information about this online event
This course will be delivered via Zoom webinar.
If you are not available to watch this session live, there will be access to the recording for 1 month but you will still need to register.
We would recommend that attendees access this training from home using a personal device if at all possible. If you are intending to use an NHS computer, please check that there are no firewalls in place that will prevent you from joining a Zoom webinar.
The joining instruction will be sent to you once the bookings have closed. If you haven't received the joining link the day before the webinar is due to start, please check your junk inbox first. If you still need assistance, please email [email protected]
Payment information
The cost of the course is £50 per person. Please note that we can now only accept payment by card through our booking system.
If you want to pay by invoice this can be done but please note that payment by this method will cost £65 per person and we must be advised of the purchase order number at the time of booking. Please email [email protected] if you require further information regarding invoice payments.
Cancellation policy
If written notification is received 30 days before the course, we will issue a refund. We regret that no refunds can be made on bookings cancelled less than 30 days before the course. A colleague may attend in your place rather than forfeit the full course fee.
ERIC reserves the right to cancel the course. In the unlikely event of cancellation by ERIC, course fees paid will be refunded in full
Book now for Tuesday 16th June
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