This family-focused edited volume provides practical, classroom-based suggestions for coping with challenging behaviors in early childhood settings. Aimed at pre-service and in-service early childhood educators, the book aims to provide assessment and intervention tips that can be tailored to each individual child and classroom situation. The book's secondary purpose is to create linkages between developmentally appropriate curriculum and instructional practices and effective behavioral interventions. The chapter authors use recent research in the field and their classroom-based experiences to provide practical advice. Vignettes are used throughout the text to illustrate examples of children's behaviors and effective strategies for overcoming challenging behavior. The chapters are organized around common questions educators face and include checklists that can be used to assess current childcare practices.

Clarifying the elements of challenging behaviour; developing centrewide support; engaging parents as partners in changing behaviour; creating a supportive classroom environment; seeing the challenge more clearly; determining the teacher's role in further assessment and intervention; implementing individualized behaviour plans; evaluating and revising intervention plans; planning for crises; determining when outside help is needed; putting it all together.