Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE: MANAGING BEHAVIOUR IN SCHOOLS
- What we believe about managing these students' behaviour?
- How these students present at school?
- Rodney
- Garry
- Taylor
CHAPTER TWO: ATTACHMENT AND TRAUMA
- Let's talk about Attachment
- Bowlby and Ainsworth: Two early theorists with important messages.
- The neurological and physiological impact of disorganised attachment
CHAPTER THREE: THE SCIENCE LESSON
- The nervous system
- The human brain
- Neurons and synaptic activity
- The early childhood brain
CHAPTER FOUR: WHAT DOES THIS LOOK LIKE AT SCHOOL?
- Fight, flight or freeze
- Revisiting Rodney, Garry and Taylor
CHAPTER FIVE: WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT THIS - THAT WORKS?
- Relationships (both the problem and the solution)
- Emotional self-regulation
- Six-element model for student support
- A list of recommended strategies and approaches
CHAPTER SIX: CRISIS MANAGEMENT
- Preparing for and managing a behaviour crisis
- Example of a crisis management plan
- Helping teachers to understand and manage their own reactions and emotions during and after crisis
- Considerations for school policy
- Suspension and expulsion
- Moving a student to a new school
CHAPTER SEVEN: COMPLIANCE, ADOLESCENCE AND WORKING WITH PARENTS
- Recognise difficulties with compliance for what they are
- Physiological and social concerns in adolescence
- A note on working with parents
- A final word