Training Guides for the Head Start Learning Community. Supporting Children withChallenging Behaviors: Relationships Are Key

摘要

This guide will offer Head Start staff a process for reflecting on their ownpractice, assessing difficult situations, and designing interventions through joint problem solving. The guide will help Head Start staff understand their own behavior, their assumptions, and their relationships with children with challenging behaviors and with each other. Such a understanding reinforces the importance of teamwork, and provides the necessary foundation for developing strategies and using techniques that support children with challenging behaviors and their families. This technical guide is written for Head Start teaching teams and their immediate supervisors; it will also be useful to family service workers, home visitors, managers, and other Head Start staff, as well as consultants.