Challenging Behaviours - What to Know and What to Do

This title is written by Andrew & Beth Chadwick. If you deal with challenging behaviours this book includes strategies covering a range of special needs including autistic spectrum, aspergers, dyspraxia, dyslexia, depression, tourettes, obsessive compulsive disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and specific learning difficulties. It addresses problems such as: Truanting; Swearing and verbal abuse; Theft; Bullying; Attention seeking; Drug abuse; Low self-esteem; and, Vandalism. It includes case histories to provide some insight into the difficult situations teachers may encounter in the classroom. It is suitable for all ages. Acknowledgements, Introduction, Disorders, Attachment Disorder, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Autistic Spectrum Disorder and Asperger’s Syndrome, Conduct Disorder, Depression and Bipolar Disorder, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), Tourette Syndrome, Child and Class-Based Issues and Behaviours, Anxiety, Attention Seeking, Bullying, Emotional Distress and Temper Tantrums, Low Self-Esteem, Self-Harm, Sexualised Behaviour, Substance Abuse, Suicide, Swearing and Verbal Abuse, Theft, Work Avoidance, Young Carers, Glossary of Supporting Colleagues