Understanding and Responding to Challenging Behaviours

Name: Understanding and Responding to Challenging Behaviours
SKU: TS0334
Price: 64.95 NZD
Availability: InStock
Author: Niki Buchan
ISBN: 9781923193024

"But I want to be good!"

By
Niki Buchan

"But I want to be good!" Understanding and responding to behaviours that challenge offers practical, insightful guidance on how educators and a service as a whole can support children displaying challenging behaviours in early childhood settings. It's grounded in the author's four decades of professional and personal experience of early years education and young children with diverse and significant needs.

The book describes issues related to neurodiversity and trauma and strategies for responding to them. It has a proactive focus in seeking to prevent the impact on an educator's wellbeing that occurs where severe behaviours persist or the educator feels unsupported.

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Ages: 0-6 | Pages: 100 | Code: TS0334 | ISBN: 9781923193024

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Niki Buchan

Niki Buchan is CEO and owner of Natural Learning Educational Consultancy. She has lived and worked in South Africa, Australia and is now based in Scotland. She works internationally as a conference keynote speaker, nature pedagogue, mentor and author having been invited to work in Australia, UK, USA, Canada, Iceland, Sweden, South Korea, China, Norway, Denmark and South Africa. She has developed a reputation as a strong advocate for children’s right to a high-quality childhood with a deep concern about children’s mental health and trauma.

Niki trusts children as being capable and competent, respects their ability to know what they need for their development including assessing and taking risks. She has a great love for the outdoors and has been working with both adults and young children in very consultative, naturalistic and sensorial environments both indoors and outdoors for more than 40 years. She believes children have a right to regular access to nature and to have their voices heard in matters that affect them.

Contents
Introduction	4
1. Children's behaviours that challenge	6
Perception versus reality	6
Influences on and impacts of behaviours that challenge	6
Finding the "Why?"	7
2. Wellbeing and meeting needs	12
Understanding wellbeing	12
The child's right to a safe haven	16
Basic human needs	17
The Leuven scales – an assessment tool to measure emotional wellbeing and involvement	18
Environments for children to challenge themselves	22
Being in and with nature	22
Physical risk and wellbeing	25
3. Normal childhood development and behaviours	29
Early brain development and the impact of experiences	29
Essential building blocks for healthy child development	30
Adult expectations versus normal child development	34
4. Effective communication	44
What is communication?	45
Communication in early childhood	46
The importance of communication	46
Supporting effective communication	50
5. Neurodiversity – a normal variation	52
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)	53
Autistic spectrum disorder (ASD)	53
Dyslexia	55
Sensory processing disorder (SPD)	56
Case study: Creating a calm space where children can experience joy	57
6. Trauma – the hidden epidemic	60
The body's alarm system	61
Childhood trauma	62
Complex trauma	63
Case study: Nature Nurture	64
Trauma-informed practice	69
Educators feeling safe	69
7. Keep it simple – strategies to support children and educators	71
Educator responses to disruptive incidents	72
Physical environment	75
Practice	78
Reflection for discussion	83
8. Whole-service approach to improvement	84
Case study: From chaos to calmer – the transformation of Kinglake Ranges Children's Centre	84
References	95
Further resources and recommended reading	100