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Beyond Behaviors: Using Brain Science and Compassion to Understand and Solve Children's Behavioral Challenges by Mona Delahooke

4.0

An important book urging parents and people who work with children to consider that behavioral approaches (reward and punishment) have limited effectiveness to "top down" behaviors that the child has conscious control over. Many negative behaviors are "bottom up" and NOT under conscious control, but are instead adaptive responses to stress and disregulation. Punishing these behaviors only increases the stress and compounds the problem. Instead focus on relational safety, therapeutic use of self, and increasing positive experiences.