Beyond Behaviors: Using Brain Science and Compassion to Understand and Solve Children's Behavioral Challenges - Softcover

Delahooke, Mona

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1683731190 ISBN 13: 9781683731191

Publisher: PESI Publishing, 2019

Synopsis

A NEW approach to solving behavioral challenges.

In Beyond Behaviors, internationally known pediatric psychologist, Dr. Mona Delahooke describes behaviors as the tip of the iceberg, important signals that we should address by seeking to understand a child’s individual differences in the context of relational safety.

Featuring impactful worksheets and charts, this accessible book offers professionals, educators and parents tools and techniques to reduce behavioral challenges and promote psychological resilience and satisfying, secure relationships.

Neuroscience-based effective tools and strategies for children labeled with:
- Conduct Disorder
- Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD)
- Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD)
- Anxiety & Depression
- Autism & Developmental or Learning Differences

And children who experience or have experienced:
- Aggressive, confusing and unpredictable behaviors
- Tantrums and meltdowns
- Disconnection or shutdown
- Adverse childhood experiences
- Trauma and toxic stress

About this title

About the Author

Mona M. Delahooke, Ph.D. is a pediatric psychologist specializing in supporting children and families. She has dedicated her career to promoting compassionate, relationship-based interventions for children with developmental, behavioral, emotional and learning differences. Her first book, Social and Emotional Development in Early Intervention: A Skills Guide for Working with Children, describes a contemporary, neurodevelopmental approach useful for all childhood professionals.

From the Back Cover

A NEW approach to solving behavioral challenges.

In Beyond Behaviors, internationally known pediatric psychologist, Dr. Mona Delahooke describes behaviors as the tip of the iceberg, important signals that we should address by seeking to understand a child's individual differences in the context of relational safety.

Featuring impactful worksheets and charts, this accessible book offers professionals, educators and parents tools and techniques to reduce behavioral challenges and promote psychological resilience and satisfying, secure relationships.

Neuroscience-based effective tools and strategies for children labeled with:

- Conduct Disorder

- Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)

- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)

- Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD)

- Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD)

- Anxiety & Depression

- Autism & Developmental or Learning Differences

And children who experience or have experienced:

- Aggressive, confusing or unpredictable behaviors

- Tantrums and meltdowns

- Disconnection or shutdown

- Adverse childhood experiences

- Trauma and toxic stress

Edition details

• Publisher: PESI Publishing
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1683731190
• ISBN 13: 9781683731191
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 315