Challenging Behavior in Young Children Understanding, Preventing and Responding Effectively, Enhanced Pearson eText -- Access Card

by Kaiser, Barbara; Rasminsky, Judy Sklar

• ISBN13: 9780134145556
• ISBN10: 0134145550
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2016-01-05
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

Challenging Behavior in Young Children is your source for understanding why children behave as they do, with techniques for addressing their more challenging behaviors. Every child has some kind of special need. This bestseller provides evidence-based strategies for responding to those needs, preventing challenging behavior, and building supportive relationships.

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Author Biography

Barbara Kaiser and Judy Sklar Rasminsky first teamed up more than two decades ago to write The Daycare Handbook (1991). Since then they’ve published a number of award-winning and bestselling books and booklets, including Meeting the Challenge (a Comprehensive Membership Benefit of the National Association for the Education of Young Children in 1999), Challenging Behavior in Young Children (winner of a Texty Award for textbook excellence in 2007), Challenging Behavior in Elementary and Middle School (a Texty winner in 2009), and a series of webinars and guides on bullying for the Nova Scotia Department of Education (2013).

Barbara Kaiser has taught at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, and at Concordia University and College Marie-Victorin in Montreal, QC, Canada. In addition to presenting workshops and keynote speeches on challenging behavior all over the world, Barbara has acted as a consultant for Mr. Rogers’ Family Communications, Inc., and was the chief consultant for Facing the Challenge, an instructional DVD based on Challenging Behavior in Young Children produced by the Devereux Early Childhood Initiative in 2007. She holds a master’s degree in educational administration from McGill University and founded and served as the director of two child care centers and an after-school program.

Judy Sklar Rasminsky is a freelance writer specializing in education and health. Her work has appeared in numerous magazines, newspapers, and anthologies, and she has won awards from the National Association of Government Communicators, the International Association of Business Communicators, and the National Institutes of Health. For many years an editor at book publishers in New York and London, she has a B.A. from Stanford University and an M.A. from Columbia University.

Visit Kaiser and Rasminsky at www.challengingbehavior.com and read their blog at www.childrenwithchallengingbehavior.com

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION  

CHAPTER 1 What Is Challenging Behavior?  

CHAPTER 2 Risk Factors  

CHAPTER 3 Resilience  

CHAPTER 4 Behavior and the Brain  

CHAPTER 5 Relationship, Relationship, Relationship  

CHAPTER 6 Opening the Culture Door  

CHAPTER 7 Preventing Challenging Behavior: The Social Climate  

CHAPTER 8 Preventing Challenging Behavior: Physical Environment, Routines and Transitions, Curriculum, and Teaching Strategies  

CHAPTER 9 Guidance  

CHAPTER 10 Functional Assessment and Positive Behavior Support  

CHAPTER 11 The Inclusive Classroom  

CHAPTER 12 Working with Families and Other Experts  

CHAPTER 13 Bullying  

APPENDIX A Reflective Checklists for Chapters 7 and 8  

APPENDIX B The Functional Assessment A-B-C Chart  

REFERENCES  

PHOTO CREDITS  

INDEX