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Introduction
CHAPTER 1: What Is Challenging Behavior?
Is challenging behavior ever appropriate?
What happens to students with more serious behavior problems?
Does challenging behavior always develop the same way?
What do the theorists say about aggression and antisocial behavior?
Does culture play a role in aggressive behavior?
What do you think?
Suggested reading
CHAPTER 2: Biological Risk Factors
What causes challenging behavior?
Child Risk Factors
Genes
Gender
Temperament
Complications of pregnancy and birth
Problems with brain function
Emotional and behavior disorders
Environmental Risk Factors
Family factors and parenting style
Peer influences
School
Poverty and the conditions surroundings it
Exposure to violence
Violent media
Turbulent times
Understanding risk
What do you think?
What would you do?
Suggested reading and resources
CHAPTER 3: Protective Factors
The first wave: What qualities help a child bounce back?
The second wave: How do protective factors work?
The third wave: Integrating biology and intervention
What do you think?
Suggested reading
CHAPTER 4: Behavior and the Brain
Early Experience and the Brain
How does the brain develop?
How does experience affect brain development?
Are there any critical periods in the social and emotional realm?
How does early experience affect the stress system?
What role do genes play?
The Adolescent Brain
How does puberty affect the brain?
What about cognitive development?
What happens when emotion and cognition are out of sync?
Aggression and the Adult Brain
Which parts of the brain are involved in aggressive behavior?
What does all this mean?
What do you think?
Suggested reading
CHAPTER 5: Relationship, Relationship, Relationship
The caring connection
Understanding Yourself
“Who are you?” said the caterpillar
What influences the way you relate to a child with challenging behavior?
What is self-reflection?
How do you reflect?
When do you reflect?
Are there any techniques to help you reflect?
Understanding the Child
What is the role of attachment?
How does attachment affect behavior?
How does temperament influence attachment?
What happens to attachment as children grow older?
Establishing a Relationship with the Child
How does a close relationship with a teacher protect a child?
How can you develop a positive relationship with a child with challenging behavior?
Back to the beginning
Establishing a Relationship with the Family
What keeps teachers and families apart?
Getting to know you
What about parent-teacher night?
Should teachers visit families at home?
The next step
What do you think?
What would you do?
Suggested reading
CHAPTER 6: Opening the Culture Door
What Is Culture?
What does culture have to do with identity?
Are cultures really so different?
The melting pot and the salad bowl
When Home Culture Meets School Culture
The culture of school
How does culture influence behavior?
How can you make your teaching more culturally responsive?
Some Cultural Characteristics
Does each culture have its own special characteristics?
Why all this matters
What do you think?
What would you do?
Suggested reading
CHAPTER 7: Preventing Challenging Behavior: The Social Context
How does prevention work?
We’re all the same, yet we’re all different
Creating the Social Context
What kind of social context fosters prosocial behavior and discourages aggressive behavior?
What is the teacher’s role in the social context?
Why should we include children with challenging behaviors?
How can you create a caring, cooperative, and inclusive community?
Teaching Social and Emotional Skills
How do children learn social and emotional skills?
How do you teach social and emotional skills?
What skills do children need to learn?
What do you think?
What would you do?
Suggested reading and resources
CHAPTER 8: Preventing Challenging Behavior: Physical Space, Classroom Management, and Teaching Strategies
The Physical Space
Where will they sit?
Where does the teacher belong?
Other spaces
Deck the walls
Taking responsibility in the classroom
Classroom Management
Providing a daily schedule
Using procedures
Managing the group
Teaching Strategies
Differentiated instruction
Sharing responsibility and providing choice
A compendium of teaching strategies
Homework or not?
When Circumstances Change
Providing reassurance
Talking about feelings
Routines and activities
Maintaining the social context
Connecting with colleagues and parents
Taking care of yourself
What do you think?
What would you do?
Suggested reading
CHAPTER 9: Guidance and Other Discipline Strategies
How do strategies differ?
What makes a strategy work?
What is developmental discipline?
How does Teacher Effectiveness Training work?
How useful is positive reinforcement?
What about natural and logical consequences?
Time-out, punishment, and time away
How does culture influence guidance?
What do you think?
What would you do?
Suggested reading
CHAPTER 10: The WEVAS Strategy
The competent state and calibration
The anxious state
The agitated state
The aggressive state
The assaultive state
The open state
What do you think?
What would you do?
Suggested reading and resources
CHAPTER 11: Functional Assessment and Positive Behavior Support
Performing a Functional Assessment
When is it appropriate to use functional assessment and positive behavior support?
How do you figure out the function of a behavior?
What functions can behavior serve?
What about appropriate behavior?
Working as a team
How do you get the information you need for a functional assessment?
How do you develop a hypothesis?
Creating a Positive Behavior Support Plan
How do you develop a positive behavior support plan?
How does the plan look?
How do you evaluate the plan?
What do you think?
What would you do?
Suggested reading and resources
CHAPTER 12: The Inclusive Classroom
About Inclusion
Why is inclusion important?
How does IDEA work?
What’s happening on the front lines?
How is a child who needs special education identified?
Does IDEA include all disabilities?
Can an IEP address behavior?
Who is responsible for implementing an IEP?
Preventing and Addressing Challenging Behavior in Children with Disabilities
Does a student’s disability play a role in challenging behavior?
Who can help?
How can an inclusive social context prevent challenging behavior?
How can you organize the physical space to prevent challenging behavior?
How can classroom routines and teaching strategies prevent challenging behavior?
How can you respond effectively to challenging behavior?
Additions to the toolbox
What do you think?
What would you do?
Suggested reading and resources
CHAPTER 13: Working with Families and Other Experts
Preparing to Meet the Family
How do families react to news of challenging behavior?
How do you feel?
How can colleagues help?
Meeting with the Family
How do you arrange a meeting?
What should happen in a meeting with the family?
How do you close a meeting?
What if you and the family disagree?
Working with Other Experts
What about getting additional expert advice?
What do you think?
What would you do?
Suggested reading
CHAPTER 14: Bullying
What Is Bullying?
How common is bullying?
Who are the students who bully others?
Who are the targets of bullying?
Who are the bystanders?
How Can Teachers Reduce and Prevent Bullying?
The whole-school approach
Working in your own classroom
What helps students cope with bullying?
Responding to Bullying
What does the law say?
How do you respond to bullying?
What if you don’t see the bullying?
What do you say to students involved in bullying?
Working with the parents of students involved in bullying
What do you think?
What would you do?
Suggested reading and resources
APPENDIX A: A-B-C Chart
APPENDIX B: The Functional Assessment Observation Form
Appendix C: Converting an A-B-C Chart into a Functional Assessment Observation Form
References
Index