Challenging Behavior in Young Children: Understanding, Preventing, and Responding Effectively [Paperback]

Renowned authors Barbara Kaiser and Judy Sklar Rasminsky once again help teachers to discover effective ways to address challenging behavior in the classroom!

Making full use of Barbara Kaiser's 30 years of experience as a child care director and teacher, the Second Edition of Challenging Behavior in Young Children provides an in-depth look into the latest research on understanding and preventing challenging behavior and offers practical and effective strategies for responding to it, including positive behavior support and functional assessment, as mandated by IDEA.

Based on the authors’ 40-page booklet Meeting the Challenge (1999), this new edition maintains the personal touch and real-life examples teachers have grown to rely on. It includes new chapters on relationships and inclusion as well as the latest information on risk and protective factors, culture, the brain, self-reflection, working with families, and bullying.

Challenging Behavior in Young Children emphasizes the teacher’s role in the behavior of children, helping students and educators to reflect on their own values, feelings, and actions. The result is an invaluable resource for everyone involved in the education of young children.

Praise for Challenging Behavior in Young Children

“What you’ll learn from reading this book will have a significant positive effect on you as a teacher and on the hundreds of children you will eventually touch.”

–From the preface by Sue Bredekamp, author ofDevelopmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs  

 “Full of good sense and good ideas. This book is clear, practical, sympathetic, and wise.”  

–LawrenceHartmann, M.D., Past President, American Psychiatric Association

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

–Diane Levin, Wheelock College, author of Teaching Young Children in Violent Times

“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 The Young Child in the Family and the Community

Challenging Behavior in Young Children presents in-depth background information and 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–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.

In this second edition, the authors of the best-selling book Meeting the Challenge offer new chapters on inclusion and relationships, as well as a totally revised chapter on positive behavior support and functional assessment, strong chapters on resilience, culture, and working with families, and updated material on the brain and bullying. The result is a comprehensive and indispensable resource for everyone who works with young children, from child care through grade 3.