Beyond Behaviors: Using Brain Science and Compassion to Understand and Solve Children’s Behavioral Challenges

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2020 Benjamin Franklin Book Award Winner in Psychology Why are we failing to help children with seriously challenging behaviors? Too many books about childrens challenging behaviors take a one-size-fits-all approach, without consideration for the autonomic statethe brain/body connection. They also fail to consider childrens individual differencestheir unique strengths and challenges. And most approaches to challenging behaviors fail to examine those challenges in the context of a childs social and emotional development. As a result, many treatment approaches fall short because they simply lack a cohesive rationale or guiding principle. This book aims to provide a new context to understand behavioral challenges and offer a roadmap for making decisions based on each childs brain and body. While research and knowledge about the brain has progressed exponentially over the past three decades, we have barely begun to translate this understanding into practical use. In my experience, the neuroscientist Dr. Stephen Porgess workhis Polyvagal Theory, and specifically the concept of neuroceptionoffers the best new way to view and support behaviorally challenged children and their families. About Dr. Mona Delahooke Mona Delahooke, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist with more than 30 years of experience caring for children and their families. She is a senior faculty member of the Profectum Foundation, an organization dedicated to supporting families of neurodiverse children, adolescents and adults. She is a trainer for the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health. Dr. Delahooke holds the highest level of endorsement in the field of infant and toddler mental health in California, as a Reflective Practice Mentor (RPM). She is a frequent speaker, trainer, and consultant to parents, organizations, schools, and public agencies. Dr. Delahooke has dedicated her career to promoting compassionate, relationship-based, neurodevelopmental interventions for children with developmental, behavioral, emotional, and learning differences. She is the author of Social and Emotional Development in Early Intervention: A Skills Guide for Working with Children (PESI, 2017). Read more Praise for Beyond Behaviors Beyond Behaviors provides the basis for a paradigm shift in understanding and treating children with disruptive behaviors. Historically, educational and therapeutic models treat anti-social and asocial behavior as motivated and incentivized. In this accessible and beautifully written volume, Dr. Delahooke pulls the veil off this myth and replaces it with a neurobiologically-informed treatment model that provides insightful directives leading to effective outcomes. -- Stephen W. Porges, PhD, Distinguished University Scientist, Indiana University, Professor of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina, and author of The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe As a developmental psychologist, compassion teacher, and autism mom, I can whole-heartedly say this book is brilliant. Traditional methods of shaping childrens behaviors typically ignore childrens emotional state, at great cost to the childs ability to learn, develop, and form secure relationships. This book provides concrete ways to help understand safety as the foundation for childrens learning, working with rather than against natural brain functions to maximize learning potential. -- Kristin Neff, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, and author of Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself I love this book. It will be one I give and recommend over and over. Beyond Behaviors is succinct, accessible, practical, science-based. And its a game changer. My hope is that not only parents, educators, clinicians, and all helping professionals read it, but that it becomes required reading for professionals in training. Its time for us to use science-informed approaches to go beyond mere behaviors to support children and their caregivers, and this is the book to light the way. -- Tina Payne Bryson, PhD, LCSW, Executive Director of The Center for Connection and co-author of New York Times bestsellers The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline This book will embrace every parent and professional puzzling over behavioral challenges and make you question the assumptions about their meaning and re-evaluate how to help. Dr. Delahooke reframes our understanding by integrating perspectives from development, brain science, mental health, and child and parent experiences using example after example to guide you towards insight and compassionate approaches that are respectful of neurodiversity. Beyond Behaviors will help every child and family progress, feel safe, enjoy relationships, and develop to their fullest. -- Serena Wieder, PhD, Clinical Director, Profectum Foundation, co-creator of the DIR Model and co-author of The Child with Special Needs and Engaging Autism

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🗸 Title: Beyond Behaviors: Using Brain Science and Compassion to Understand and Solve Children's Behavioral Challenges
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