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Beyond Behaviors

Using Brain Science and Compassion to Understand and Solve Children's Behavioral Challenges

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Beyond Behaviors

By: Mona Delahooke PhD
Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
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A new approach to solving behavioral challenges.

In Beyond Behaviors, internationally known pediatric psychologist Dr. Mona Delahooke describes behaviors as the tip of the iceberg, important signals that we should address by seeking to understand a child's individual differences in the context of relational safety.

This accessible book offers professionals, educators, and parents tools and techniques to reduce behavioral challenges and promote psychological resilience and satisfying, secure relationships.

Neuroscience-based effective tools and strategies for children labeled with: Conduct Disorder; Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD); Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD); Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD); Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD); Anxiety and Depression; and Autism and Developmental or Learning Differences.

And children who experience or have experienced: aggressive, confusing and unpredictable behaviors; tantrums and meltdowns; disconnection or shutdown; adverse childhood experiences; and trauma and toxic stress.

©2019 Mona Delahooke (P)2019 Tantor Child Psychology Developmental Psychology Neurodiversity Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Toddler Behaviour Autism Behaviour Child Behavioural Psychology
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I absolutely loved it. This book is a must read for anyone working with children who display challenging behaviours!

A must read

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This book has shifted the way I look at my own and other children's behaviour and the way I parent. it's a shame the worksheets aren't included as a download, as these would have been really helpful!

Wonderfully insightful!

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I was looking for identifying strategies for root cause of my child's challenging behavior.
This book nailed it down nicely and now I understand I have wasted all money for therapists who even does not have a clue of what causes.

Best and only book answered my concerns.

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Content was good, but uses a lot of tables, which without the PDF are difficult to imagine. I feel like I wasted time with a lot of this without the supporting material. Generally good case examples and ideas.

Badly needs the pdf - not included.

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I found this really helpful for giving me the latest science in a parent friendly language to reframe behaviour and look at the potential causes instead of reacting to the symptoms. Highly recommend

Great info

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Absolutely loved it and am recommending it to anyone and everyone who has anything to do with kids!

Brilliant!

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…for all teachers, allied health professionals, doctors & people raising neurodivergent children. Excellent use of case studies to highlight effective strategies, lots of challenging self reflection to do after reading & doing worksheets. Very worthwhile. Problem is, you don’t get the worksheets with the audio book.

Must read

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I loved this book. I loved the content but disappointed that the pdfs were not included. The paradigm shift that needs to happen.

A must read

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I enjoyed the information provided but would have appreciated a PDF to apply the strategies and worksheets described.

Loads of interesting information and perspectives

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I have been interested in peaceful / respectful / conscious / connected / mindful parenting for a decade and have read many great books and listened to countless podcast episodes that provide both tools and rationale for a calm, connected, empathic, non-punituve and non-shaming approach to parenting where self-awareness and self-regulation in the parent is key. I have also developed an interest in neuropsychology and modern attachment theory. This book has joined the dots for me in a profound and transformative way. Despite what I knew and what I intended, I still found it so hard not to get caught up in my kids' dysreguation. Beyond Behaviors has given me a fundamental perspective shift and I now feel that rather than having to simply use will power to "stay calm" or force myself to "stop, drop and breathe" (which I found SO hard to do in the moment), I have a deeper awareness of how my and my kids' nervous systems are functioning and influencing each other - it's alkost like I have some kind of neuro-telepathy and can see and hear things that were outside of, or peripheral to my awareness previously. But I only had part of the picture. This book put it all together so beautifully! I am now recommending it to EVERYONE. Apart from having my own four kids, I work in the forensic mental health system and wish every practitioner would read it! THANKYOU Mona Delahooke, for your your gift to the world of this amazing book!

A game-changer! A must-read!

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