An invaluable resource

Making full use of Barbara Kaiser’s 30 years of experience as a child care director and teacher, the new edition of Challenging Behavior in Young Children presents in-depth background information and effective strategies to help preservice and practicing teachers understand, prevent, and address the behavior problems found so often in today’s primary schools and child care centers. The evidence-based techniques provided here work with the most difficult behaviors and benefit every child in the classroom.

The second edition maintains the personal touch and real-life examples teachers have come to rely on.

New in the second edition

• A brand-new chapter, “The Inclusive Classroom,” helps to prepare teachers to successfully include children with disabilities in the classroom community through strategies such as differentiated learning.
• A greatly expanded chapter on relationships examines their all-important role—and the role of self-reflection—in children’s behavior.
• A chapter on “Positive Behavior Support and Functional Assessment,” also greatly expanded and revised, presents an overview of the strategies mandated by IDEA that view challenging behavior from the child’s perspective.
• Updated coverage of:
  • Risk factors for challenging behavior
  • Brain research
  • English-language learners
  • Bullying

Challenging behavior can turn a classroom—or a home—upside down

When a child with challenging behavior comes into their lives, teachers and families often find themselves at a loss, unable to turn things around or help the child behave appropriately. Often they feel overwhelmed, frustrated, defeated.

Challenging Behavior in Young Children (2nd edition) can save the day! Author Barbara Kaiser has walked in your shoes and knows what works and what doesn’t. She and writer Judy Sklar Rasminsky have gathered a variety of research-based strategies into one practical, user-friendly package. Used in combination or alone, these techniques can help you to succeed with almost any child or situation you encounter.

Even though Challenging Behavior in Young Children is a textbook, the authors never forget the needs and interests of practicing teachers. This book will extend and update your knowledge base, remind you of tricks you’d forgotten, give you new insights, and reaffirm the importance of your role—as well as provide you with effective new ways to approach challenging behavior.

• You are teaching education.
• You are studying to become a teacher.
• You are teaching in an early childhood setting or an elementary school.
• You are working with young children in another context, such as a recreation program or a social services agency.