"This book sets the standard in delivering a comprehensive, state-of-the-art approach for understanding, treating, and preventing classroom behavior difficulties. It should be on the bookshelves of all professionals who work in school settings. I will certainly recommend this text to my colleagues and students."

*A classic guide to creating a positive classroom environment

*With its renewed focus on the concept of temperament and its impact on children's behavior and personality, Understanding and Managing Children's Classroom Behavior emphasizes changing behavior rather than labeling it.

*How to identify strengths and assets and build on them

*Complete functional behavioral assessments

*The relationship between thinking, learning, and behavior in the classroom

*Practical strategies for teachers to improve students' self-regulation

*How to facilitate social skills

*Problem-solving approaches to bullies and their victims

*Medications and their relationship to behavior

The classic guide to helping psychologists, counselors, and educators improve their ability to serve all students, Understanding and Managing Children's Classroom Behavior, Second Edition will help educators create citizens connected to each other, to their teachers, to their families, and to their communities.