Thirteen reasons to buy Challenging Behavior in Young Children, Edition 2

1. Practical and realistic. This book has a frontline perspective rarely found in textbooks. Examples featuring real children in real classrooms make the information and strategies come alive.

2. User-friendly. Besides being fun to read, this book is well organized, logical, and academically rigorous. Numerous text boxes add spice and illuminate specific points.

3. Comprehensive. The text brings together knowledge from neuroscience, psychology, psychiatry, child development, special education, early care and education, cross cultural research, and proactive social skills programs and organizes it into a single comprehensive (and comprehensible) whole. The research-based strategies can be used separately or together, providing you with a collection of tools appropriate for many different children and situations, whether you’re a student or an experienced teacher.

4. Culturally sensitive. Besides dedicating an entire chapter to the vital role of culture in children’s lives, the text considers cultural influences throughout. Snapshots of the country’s largest minority groups point out important cultural values that may lead to behavior being misperceived as challenging.

5. Strategies for preventing challenging behavior. Two full chapters tell you how to prevent challenging behavior by creating a physical space, program, and social context that promote and teach appropriate behavior and social skills.

6. Strategies for responding to challenging behavior. The book is loaded with strategies for reacting to challenging behavior. There is a balanced overview of positive reinforcement, consequences, and time-out; a clear description of positive behavior support and functional assessment, which view challenging behavior from the child’s perspective; and a new approach, WEVAS, that focuses on the teacher’s response to the child and furnishes easy-to-use techniques.

7. Inclusion. IDEA legislates inclusion as the norm, giving all children, regardless of abilities, the right to participate actively in the regular schools and child care centers they would attend if they were developing typically. This chapter helps you to minimize challenging behavior when you welcome children with disabilities into your classroom.

8. Relationships and self-reflection. Relationships are critical to good teaching, and especially to teaching children with challenging behavior. In this chapter you’ll learn how to make them work and how self-reflection can help.

9. Bullying. An entire chapter on bullying describes what’s known about children who bully, children who are targeted, and bystanders, and suggests ways to prevent and respond to bullying. There are also useful tips for working with parents of children involved in bullying.

10. Risk factors and protective factors for challenging behavior. The biological and environmental risk factors are all here—temperament, substance abuse during pregnancy, language and cognitive disorders, the violent media, poverty, and more. You will also learn how to strengthen the protective factors that make children more resilient and enable them to overcome the risk factors in their lives.

11. The brain. The mystery of behavior and the brain gets a whole chapter, revised to include the most recent research.

12. Family-friendly. It’s hard to underestimate the importance of teacher-family partnerships. This book helps you to understand and communicate with families, even when you’re saying things they don’t want to hear.

13. Questions for discussion. A section called “What do you think?” at the end of each chapter asks questions to help students make the material their own.

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