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Challenging Early Childhood Behaviors
Resources for Child Care Providers and Parents
National Resources
The Center
for Evidence-Based Practice: Young Children with Challenging
Behavior (CEBP), and the Center
on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning
(CSEFEL) have coordinated efforts to extend the
impact of their work on young children’s social/emotional
development and challenging behavior. The Centers offer
varied, valuable, and FREE resources and information
that can be used with
children at home or in the classroom. You will find
newsletters, training modules, research syntheses, information
on training opportunities and much more!
The American Academy of
Pediatrics has several resources on children's mental
health including the Bright
Futures initiative. Download the following documents:
Online
Access to Bright Futures in Practice: Mental Health,
Volume I
Online
Access to Bright Futures in Practice: Mental Health,
Volume II - Tool Kit
Several topics are covered in these volumes. Visit the
Web site for information on everything from Attention
Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) to managing aggressive
behaviors in early childhood.
Child
Behavior Disorders (MEDLINEplus Health Information)
Early Child Development in Social Context: A Chartbook
(Commonwealth
Fund/ChildTrends)
Other Resources
The California
ChildCare Health Program has health and safety notes
available for free download in English and Spanish on
topics such as Biting in the Child Care Setting, Temperment
and Regularity, and Understanding and Caring for a Child
with AD/HD.
Play
Nicely CD is an interactive violence prevention
program from the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital
at Vanderbilt University.
The Devereux
Foundation's Early Childhood Initiative is working
towards creating working partnerships among early childhood
educators, mental health professionals, and children
to promote young children's healthy social and emotional
development. DECA
is standardized, strength based assessment of within
child protective factors and screener for behavior concerns.
Information on specific behaviors is listed below
as well as within many of the sites previously mentioned.
Biting
Biters:
Why They Do It and What to Do About It (National Association
for the Education of Young Children)
Dealing
with Biting Behaviors in Young Children (Early Childhood
and
Parenting -ECAP-Collaborative)
Fighting
the Biting (Kids Health - Nemours Foundation)
A
Bite in the Playroom: Managing Human Bites in Day Care
Settings (Canadian Paediatric Association)
Biting
in the Child Care Setting (California ChildCare
Health Program) - also available in Spanish
Health
and Safety Action Plan - Biting (Pennsylvania ECELS
Program)
Bullying
Stop
Bullying Now (US Department of Health and Human Services)
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