Chapter 10
Upon completion of this chapter, you should be able to:
- Understand factors contributing to social and emotional competencies in children;
- Identify the internalizing and externalizing behavior problem categories;
- Understand emotional and behavioral problems in children;
- Identify the environmental and other risk factors contributing to behavior problems;
- Understand strategies and adaptations necessary for working with children with behavioral and social emotional needs in inclusive classrooms, including Positive Behavior Support (PBS) strategies;
- Describe how to assess the individual behavioral needs of children;
- Describe functional behavior analysis and its components;
- Understand the importance of the adult’s attention in promoting positive behaviors in children.
- Why do you think some children engage in inappropriate and challenging behaviors?
- In your opinion, how might the home and community environmental contribute to children’s lack of social and emotional competencies?
- In your opinion, what percentage of children’s challenging behaviors might be caused by biological factors?
- In your opinion, could reactions of adults and other children contribute to children’s challenging behaviors? If so, how?
- Kids Mental Health information portal http://www.kidsmentalhealth.org/
- Center for Evidence Based Practice: Young Children with Challenging Behaviors http://challengingbehavior.fmhi.usf.edu/
- Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning http://www.vanderbilt.edu/csefel/
- Technical Assistance Center for Positive Behavioral Intervention and Support http://www.pbis.org/
- United Nations report on the impact of armed conflict on children http://www.unicef.org/graca/
- Attachment Research at Stony Brook Institute http://www.psychology.sunysb.edu/attachment/
- Association for Play Therapy http://www.a4pt.org/