Childhood Trauma: Fueling Challenging Behavior
The perfect book for your next book club or in-service training. Childhood Trauma: Fueling Challenging Behavior is a comprehensive guide designed to equip educators serving children birth through age nine, with effective strategies for managing classroom behavior and addressing trauma-informed teaching from a biblical worldview. This book is structured to help participants achieve the following learning objectives:
- Approach classroom management and trauma-informed teaching from a biblical worldview perspective: Integrate faith-based principles into classroom management and teaching practices.
- Utilize behavior management techniques for diverse needs: Learn to apply various behavior management strategies tailored to the unique developmental needs of each student.
- Evaluate instructional skills and methods: Assess the effectiveness of different teaching methods to enhance classroom success.
- Complete a Functional Behavioral Analysis (FBA) and create a Behavior Intervention Plan: Use provided tools and case studies to conduct FBAs and develop intervention plans.
The book includes practical tools such as a biblical emotions and choice chart, a functional behavioral analysis chart, and detailed procedures. The chapters cover a wide range of topics, including:
- The impact of modern challenges on child development and mental health
- Understanding and addressing childhood trauma
- Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
- Distinguishing challenging from typical behaviors
- Functional Behavior Analysis (FBA)
- Positive reinforcement of acceptable behaviors
- Recalibrating the reticular activating system through multisensory learning experiences
- The interplay of nature, nurture, and ACEs in child development
- Cultivating resilience through relationships
- Research on preschool expulsion rates and their impact
- Predictability in structure, procedures, and routines
- Social and emotional learning
- Using choices to share power and control
This book is an essential resource for educators seeking to create a supportive and effective learning environment while addressing the diverse needs of their students.