Challenging Behavior in Young Children: Understanding, Preventing and Responding Effectively / Edition 4

by Barbara Kaiser, Judy Rasminsky

Overview

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A new edition of the acclaimed, best-selling survival guide for teachers struggling to find answers to children’s challenging behavior.

Stressing that every child has some kind of special need, especially children with challenging behavior, this book contains numerous practical, indispensable tips for responding to those needs, building relationships with children and their families, and preventing challenging behavior. It provides teachers with background information that enables them to understand why children behave the way they do and presents several evidence-based strategies to address their challenging behavior effectively so that teachers can select those best suited to the child and the situation. Useful to education students as well as in-service teachers in pre-school, child care, and primary school, the book emphasizes the importance of the teacher’s role in the behavior of children and encourages students and educators to reflect on their own values, feelings, and actions. In addition to up-to-date research on culture, dual-language learning, resilience, and inclusion, this new edition focuses on what stress can do to children’s brains, executive function, and behavior. The Enhanced Pearson eText features embedded videos.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780133802665
Publisher:	Pearson Education
Publication date:	01/05/2016
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

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

Editorial Reviews

CHALLENGING BEHAVIOR IN YOUNG CHILDREN: UNDERSTANDING, PREVENTING, AND RESPONDING EFFECTIVELY, Third edition

“An invaluable guidebook …. In this third edition, Kaiser and Rasminsky fulfill the promise of the book’s title by providing an eminently readable foundation for teachers to understand, prevent, and respond effectively to challenging behavior in young children…. This book could not be more timely or more needed.”

--From the foreword by Sue Bredekamp, author of Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs

“Kaiser and Rasminsky’s many notable changes and additions make an already great book even better. The third edition of Challenging Behavior in Young Children will be a useful tool for higher education faculty, administrators, and teachers. The authors have clearly articulated a framework that is designed to prevent challenging behavior by promoting social emotional competence. I believe that type of framework is necessary for meeting the needs of all children in early childhood settings.”

--Mary Louise Hemmeter, Vanderbilt University, and Director, Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning (CSEFEL)

“This book is a must-read for every early learning educator, from the novice to the most experienced. Kaiser and Rasminsky have early learning in their bones–best evidenced by the warm, caring, professional advice offered in this book; from establishing a positive classroom environment to developing cultural competence and teaching social-emotional skills. All the while the authors keep it real with practical teaching tips, clearly distilled research, and lively classroom examples on virtually every page.”

--Joan Cole Duffell, Executive Director, Committee for Children

“I’m very enthusiastic about this book. It’s interesting, reader friendly, and has a solid research foundation. Best of all, the information is extremely useful.”

--Janet Gonzalez-Mena, author of Diversity in Early Care and Education

“A powerful resource for understanding and working in a caring and respectful way with the neediest children.”

--Diane Levin, author of The War Play Dilemma

“Definitely my textbook of choice. It makes my teaching so much easier.”

--Isaura Barrera, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, author of Skilled Dialogue

“A deeply sensible and valuable book that presents interesting, practical, and academically rigorous material in a style that’s always easy to read. What a great contribution to the field.”
–Frances Stott, Erikson Institute

According to an Insta Poll by Child Care Exchange, over the last 5 years no problem has troubled teachers more than challenging behavior. Challenging Behavior in Young Children provides the strategies they crave.

The recipient of a Texty Award for textbook excellence, Challenging Behavior in Young Children is in the judges’ words “an absolute winner.”

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