Beyond Behaviors: Using Brain Science and Compassion to Understand and Solve Children’s Behavioral Challenges
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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
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Publisher : PESI Publishing
Publication date : March 19, 2019
Edition : 1st
Language : English
Print length : 315 pages
ISBN-10 : 1683731190
ISBN-13 : 978-1683731191
Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
Dimensions : 7 x 0.71 x 10 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #16,388 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #10 in Medical Child Psychology #19 in Emotional Mental Health #21 in Popular Child Psychology
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Deanna B –
Just Read if You Work with Children
As Den Heijer eloquently states, “When a flower doesn’t bloom you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.””Our approaches fall short when we simply mist little flowers struggling to grow in parched soil. Instead, we need to tend the soil. In human beings, the ‘soil’ is safety in relationships – safety as perceived by each child’s nervous system, not as defined by adults for the child.”I highly recommend this book to anyone that works with children! It breaks down literal brain science and makes it make sense for us lay people. The book was an easy read with a lot of real life examples that helped explain the concepts and tons of worksheets that could be immediately utilized with children and families. The author also provides a lot of good resources.
Sandi Lerman –
The paradigm shift that parents and teachers need!
Are you are a parent, teacher, or mental health professional working with kids who have persistent difficulties at home or school? Do you know and love a child with trauma and anxiety, who is neurodiverse or autistic, or who has received any diagnosis traditionally related to challenging behaviors (RAD, ODD, DMDD, PTSD, DTD, IED, ADHD, etc.)?If so, GO BUY THIS BOOK NOW… then give an extra copy to every professional working with the child!Dr. Mona Delahooke has put into words so clearly and brilliantly what many of us have known for years about the most challenging kids in our homes and classrooms. In a compelling, compassionate, and easy-to-read format, she has addressed many of the false assumptions underlying out-dated behavior management systems and proposes a refreshingly compassionate and brain-based approach.Instead of following the traditional path of using rewards and consequences as a way to motivate children to behave, she focuses on the importance of building an environment of safety, respecting individual diversity, and understanding children’s sensory and nervous systems. With plenty of scholarly research, along with specific examples and helpful diagrams, her book clearly and beautifully demonstrates the importance of figuring out what is driving the behavior as the key to finding compassionate solutions that work!
Hilya D. –
An indispensable book for parents, educators, and professionals working with children.
This book contains thought-provoking and ground-breaking insights that will change the way you parent, treat, or educate a child with behavioral challenges. The ideas and practices presented in this book are based on the latest scientific understanding of how we learn to regulate our emotions and behavior in the context of safe interpersonal connections and environments. Dr. Delahooke helps us recognize that what matters most is the child’s felt sense of safety and not our own perception or presumption of it. What we perceive as seemingly benign environmental stimuli, children with faulty neuroception or sensory-processing challenges may perceive as a threat to their sense of safety. As a result, their behaviors must be understood as an adaptive response to their unique individual experiences. If you are a parent, educator, or mental health provider for a child with behavioral challenges, reading this book is an imperative. It will fundamentally change the way you approach working with these children for the better. Dr. Delahooke presents complex concepts with such elegant clarity, readability, and compassion that you will be moved to come back to her words again and again as a guide for your understanding of children’s needs. As a child psychologist specializing in treating children with challenging behaviors, this is one of my go-to book recommendations for parents who seek to gain a deeper understanding of their child’s needs, and the work involved in helping them experience connection and well-being.
Beth Tolley –
Every Teacher, Principal, School Staff Member, Parent – Should Read This Book
Mona Delahooke has been a leader in translating child and brain development research as well as her own experience as a clinical psychologist and a parent to information and practical applications. In this excellent new book, she provides readily accessible explanations of what drives “challenging behavior” beyond the traditionally accepted notion that a child is either trying “to get something or to get out of something” (which assumes all behavior is rational). She provides a pathway to helping our kids with challenging behaviors that, if implemented across our country, would eliminate the punitive practices that are being applied to our vulnerable children for their automatic (stress) responses, and would shut down the school to prison pipeline. I have, and will continue to purchase extra copies to share with professionals and organizations. I have recommended that every teacher, staff member, principal and parent in my state read Mona Delahooke’s Beyond Behaviors: Using Brain Science and Compassion to Understand and Solve Children’s Behavioral Challenges. I believe that this book is valuable for all parents, whether or not their children’s children’s challenges rise to the level of concern or not. Her emphasis on the importance of relationship in a world where discipline has been interpreted as punishment rather than “to teach” is a key message for all of us.
Amazon Customer –
I love this book
This book has changed the way I parent. I homeschool my 7 year old daughter . This book has changed my perspective on misbehavior and how it is the body’s way adapting and handling stress. It goes beyond the surface of behaviors and is grounded in neuroscience. It has changed how I connect and interact with my 7 year old . It has been so helpful and my daughter’s challenging behaviors have diminished dramatically . I would recommend this book to any parent , educator or anyone who interacts with kids .
Jessica Matthews –
In her book Beyond Behaviours, Dr Delahooke guides the reader towards a deeper understanding of why relational safety is the central component in helping children to develop and thrive. Dr Delahooke’s insightful and attuned model draws on the evidence that can be found in Neuroscience, as well as years of working with children and families. Her passion is clearly communicated in the book, which helps the reader to connect with the knowledge and experience she shares. She also models the importance of compassion in the way she sensitively describes each child’s difficulties in her case studies.Beyond Behaviours explores why it is crucial to understand and respond to every child’s individual differences; authentically and with unconditional positive regard. The book explores more in-depth ways of doing so, through the use of valuable worksheets, checklists and models. The resources included in the book assist the reader to enquire about what else might be happening for a child, when they behave in ways that can be easily misunderstood.If you are the parent, carer or educator of a child who responds to the world in ways that can be difficult to understand or manage, I would highly recommend this book.
Fiona Thomas –
This book is easy to read and I wish I read this years ago, the linking of theories to explore/understand children’s behaviour is revolutionary and essential to be able to help a child function to their ability and develop to their full potential.Love it, it just makes sense great book that has helped deepen my practice.
S.H –
A great read for all educators
H D –
This book is amazing. I am a psychology student and a mum and I find the techniques in this book extremely useful.
M –
One of the best books I’ve ever read! As the mum of a child with emotional and behavioural difficulties and a teacher of children with special educational needs, I can’t recommend this book enough. It challenges its readers to look at behaviour differently and explains the complexities of brain development, the nervous system and individual differences in such a user friendly way. Beyond Behaviors really is a must read for parents and professionals working with children.