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"Mah's new book is fantastic! It simplifies the different types of temper tantrums into a manageable approach for educators and child care professionals."
—Kelly Van Raden, Career Advocate for Early Care and Education
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Learn what ignites tantrums and how you can prevent them or lessen their impact!
In clear and understandable language, this invaluable resource explains what's happening when a child throws a tantrum or exhibits other disruptive behaviors. The book offers specific guidance and directions to help teachers meet the challenge of a temper tantrum when it occurs while also increasing their awareness of their own expectations, beliefs, and reactions to children's aggressive behaviors.
In The One-Minute Temper Tantrum Solution, Ronald Mah examines developmental, situational, physical, and temperamental factors that can trigger acting-out behaviors and explores four types of tantrums—manipulative, upset, helpless, and cathartic—that can appear as verbal and/or physical outbursts. With a wealth of examples, vignettes, and easy-to-implement strategies that help educators avoid long-term negative consequences for children, this accessible book:
Offers interventions for managing each type of tantrum
Explains how tactics based on distracting, ignoring, or shaming can lead to escalation
Addresses tantrums that may be related to disabilities
Includes a chapter dealing with misdiagnosed tantrums and how to respond appropriately
Based on sensitive, caring principles that nurture and support all children, this practical book can also be used alongside Mah's Difficult Behavior in Early Childhood, which covers issues underlying harmful behaviors.
Contents
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction
1. Orderly Assessment to Successful Intervention: Where Do You Start? Where Do You End Up?
2. Developmental Factors: Developmental Energy Will Reassert
3. Situational, Physical, and Disruption Factors: 2 + 1 = Trouble!
4. Temperamental Factors: They Were Born That Way!
5. Systemic Factors: The Savior
6. Specific or Specialized Factors and Moral Factors: Try Harder
7. Four Types of Temper Tantrums! Not Always About Power and Control
8. Manipulative Tantrums: Power and Control
9. Upset Temper Tantrums: Distress
10. Helpless Temper Tantrums: Not Distress but Despair
11. Stress and the Cathartic Tantrum: Releasing the Cathartic Tantrums
12. Getting It Wrong and Getting It Right
Conclusion
References
Index
