A classic guide to creating a positive classroom environment.
Covering the most recent and relevant findings regarding behavior management in the classroom, this new edition of Understanding and Managing Children's Classroom Behavior has been completely updated to reflect the current functional approach to assessing, understanding, and positively managing behavior in a classroom setting.
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.
Let us leave the world of sexuality for a moment. Come with me to my second discipline, the field of communications. It is here I take the findings, and turn them into workable techniques to make someone fall in love with you.
It has been proved beyond any doubt that there are ways to induce desired behavior from people. If there were not, all psychologists and thousands of corporate trainers, myself included, would be out of business.
Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Non-Fiction | 1 August 2008
27
Is there a particular type of person who becomes a bully? Why do
bullies behave like they do? How can we interpret and understand
bullying within relationships? The Bullies attempts to get inside
the minds of the bully and the victim - the child, the adolescent and
the adult - across a wide range of 'closed' situations including the
home, school, workplace, prisons and the armed services.
By listening
to the voices of bullies and victims from all kinds of backgrounds
without making judgments, counselor Dennis Lines provides unique
insights into bullying and what makes such domineering and aggressive
behavior so complex. He discusses controversial issues such as genetic
predisposition towards abusive behavior and draws on his counseling
knowledge to provide insights on how to understand and treat bullies to
change their behavior.
The Bullies offers a unique and
illustrated perspective on a widespread phenomenon, and will be
essential reading for psychologists, sociologists, counselors,
teachers, social workers, probation officers, students and researchers.
This fascinating book assembles human stories about physicists and
mathematicians. Remarkably, these stories cluster around some general
themes having to do with the interaction between scientists, and with
the impact of historic events such as the advent of fascism and
communism in the twentieth century on scientists behavior. Briefly, but
lucidly, some of the beautiful science that brought these scientists
together in the first place is explained.
Behaviorism (Behavior Analysis) is a growing field. As more people get comfortable with the idea of a true science of human behavior, we will make strides in predicting and controlling human behavior. In the future, the controllers or nurturers (parents, teachers, coaches, military leaders, politicians, bosses, etc.) will have an evidenced-based science of human behavior to change people in positive ways. Effective checks can also be developed to control the new science of human behavior as B.F. Skinner recommends. This science and knowledge sure beats the haphazard techniques politicians, bosses, etc. use to influence people to do the right behaviors in order to achieve a common goal.
