Little Kids, Big Worries

Stress-Busting Tips for Early Childhood Classrooms

Overview

Packed with fast, innovative, and clinically validated stress-busters, this empowering book gives early childhood professionals the tools they need to recognize and help conquer stress in young children—and improve development, learning, and behavior.

Product Details


STOCK NUMBER	ISBN
70618	978-1-59857-061-8
COPYRIGHT	PAGES
2010	184
AVAILABILITY
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Research shows that stress in the crucial early years of a child's life can pose dramatic, lasting challenges to development, learning, and behavior. This is the practical book early childhood professionals need to recognize stress in young children—and intervene with proven relief strategies before pressures turn into big problems.

Key Topics

Developed by celebrated early childhood expert Alice Sterling Honig, this guidebook helps readers address the most common causes of stress in a young child's life, including separation anxiety, bullying, jealousy, and family circumstances. Educators and childcare providers will:

Understand key factors that influence a child's stress level, including attachment, temperament, and health issues.
Become keen observers of the varied and sometimes subtle ways that children express stress.
Choose from a wide range of stress-busting techniques—all innovative, time-tested, and clinically validated.
Personalize stress-busters to meet the needs of individual children.
Use storytelling to model solutions to problems and help children address negative feelings.
Handle stresses in their own adult lives to avoid burnout.

Stress-Busting Techniques

Learn how to use these proven stress-busters:

Making environmental adjustments
Redirecting rather than reprimanding
Supporting a child's self-soothing methods
Teaching problem-solving strategies
Taking the child's perspective
Providing verbal reassurance
Soothing through gentle physical contact
Using open-ended questions to pinpoint a child's fears
And much more!

Reviews

: Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education - July 15, 2011
"A book that will challenge assumptions about children's behavior and emotional development."

: PsycCRITIQUES, December 2010 - December 1, 2010
"Gives early childhood educators a toolbox of ideas on supporting children living in stressful situations."

About the Author

Author: Alice Sterling Honig Ph.D.

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Stress Busting Tips for Early Childhood Classrooms
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