Challenging behavior in young children : understanding, preventing, and responding effectively / Barbara Kaiser, Judy Sklar Rasminsky ; foreword by Marilou Hyson.

Book

Kaiser, Barbara, 1948- author.

Fourth edition.

Boston : Pearson, [2017]

©2017

©2017

xxiii, 343 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

This book presents in-depth background information and strategies to help pre-service 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--brought to life in vignettes drawn from Barbara Kaiser's 30 years in the field--work with the most difficult behaviors and benefit every child in the classroom.

Behavior modification.

Early childhood education.

Classroom management.

Rasminsky, Judy Sklar, 1940- author.

Hyson, Marilou, writer of foreword.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-331) and index.

1. What is challenging behavior? -- 2. Risk factors -- 3. Resilience -- 4. Behavior and the brain -- 5. Relationship, relationship, relationship -- 6. Opening the culture door -- 7. Preventing challenging behavior: the social climate -- 8. Preventing challenging behavior: physical enviornment, routines and transitions, curriculum, and teaching strategies -- 9. Guidance -- 10. Functional assessment and positive behavior support -- 11. The inclusive classroom -- 12. Working with families and other experts -- 13. Bullying -- Appendixes: A. Reflective checklists for chapters 7 and 8 ; B. The functional assessment A-B-C chart.

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