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

Delahooke, Mona

ISBN 10: 1683731190 / ISBN 13: 9781683731191

Published by PESI Publishing, Wyoming, 2019

About this Item

A must-read for healing the inner child for abuse survivors or helping understand the motivations of a difficult or antagonistic child in the present. An excellent resource for teachers, caregivers, or therapists on understanding how a person's sense of safety is paramount to behaving in socially agreeable ways. Worksheets are included throughout the book.
301 pages. Includes bibliography and index.
Edges worn, see pictures. All pages intact with no writing. Spine is broken.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1786761048396

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Beyond Behaviors: Using Brain Science and Compassion to Understand and Solve Children's Behavioral Challenges
• Publisher: PESI Publishing, Wyoming
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1683731190
• ISBN 13: 9781683731191
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dimensions: 18W x 25.5H x 2.2D centimeters 18 centimeters width by 25.5 centimeters height by 2.2 centimeters depth
• Weight: 600 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Non-fiction
  • Psychology

About this title

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 the Author

<Mona M Delahooke, PhD,is a clinical and consulting psychologist specializing in supporting children and families. She has worked widely with multi- disciplinary teams in the areas of developmental, behavioral, learning, and emotional differences for over 30 years. 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.