Beautifully written and a delight to read, this invaluable new book will help early childhood educators everywhere to rediscover the strengths in struggling children, their parents, and themselves, and to learn new problem-solving processes that will become their own.Joshua Sparrow, MD, co-author of Touchpoints: Three to Six - Your Child's Emotional and Behavioral Development
A much-needed resource for teachers who are looking for guidance in their struggle to help difficult children in the early childhood classroom. When Young Children Need Help goes beyond star charts to help staff really look at kids in need, and to build bridges between understanding and intervention that are strong enough to support their development, learning, and emotional well-being.Lesley Koplow, LCSW, Director of the Center for Emotionally Responsive Practice at Bank Street; Editor, Unsmiling Faces: How Preschools Can Heal
Deborah Hirschland’s new book, When Young Children Need Help, vividly illustrates the complexities faced by teachers who strive to meet the needs of children with challenging or hard to pin down” behaviors. Rich with practical strategies, and brought to life with actual classroom scenarios, it guides the practitioner through a bounty of helpful responses and interventions. Utilizing this wonderfully readable book as a faithful resource would be a wise choice to support healthy child development in our preschool classrooms.Sally Quinn Reed, Executive Director of the Center for Parents and Teachers, Inc.
Deborah Hirschland’s When Young Children need Help: Understanding and Addressing Emotional, Behavioral, and Developmental Challenges explores the fundamentals of how to support three-to-six-year-olds who have emotional and behavioral problems, and provides ideas that can be used in a busy classroom environment. From handling kids with histories of neglect to helping when language is limited, this book is a must’ for teachers and childcare providers working in diverse classrooms or situations.The Education Shelf, Bookwatch
In this book, Deborah Hirschland shares her considerable experience, compassion, and wisdom so that teachers of young children might better support those many children who need special help. The book provides practical advice on how to observe so as to understand, how to assess so as to plan, and how to help so as to support a child's developing in ways that insure a child will thrive. Rejecting easy answers having to do with diagnostic labels as well as abstract discussions of theory, Hirschland explains in clear and interesting prose the meaning and practical value of key concepts, the host of strategies that are worth considering, and the process that we all need to go through in order to be of help. I recommend this wise and accessible book to anyone who teaches young children and especially to those who feel frustrated or unsatisfied in their work with young children our are in particular need of our help.W. George Scarlett, Senior Lecturer and Deputy Chair, Eliot-Pearson, Department of Child Development, Tufts University
Beautifully written and a delight to read, this invaluable new book will help early childhood educators everywhere to rediscover the strengths in struggling children, their parents, and themselves, and to learn new problem-solving processes that will become their own.—Joshua Sparrow, MD, co-author of Touchpoints: Three to Six - Your Child's Emotional and Behavioral Development
A much-needed resource for teachers who are looking for guidance in their struggle to help difficult children in the early childhood classroom. When Young Children Need Help goes beyond star charts to help staff really look at kids in need, and to build bridges between understanding and intervention that are strong enough to support their development, learning, and emotional well-being.—Lesley Koplow, LCSW, Director of the Center for Emotionally Responsive Practice at Bank Street; Editor, Unsmiling Faces: How Preschools Can Heal
Deborah Hirschland’s new book, When Young Children Need Help, vividly illustrates the complexities faced by teachers who strive to meet the needs of children with challenging or “hard to pin down” behaviors. Rich with practical strategies, and brought to life with actual classroom scenarios, it guides the practitioner through a bounty of helpful responses and interventions. Utilizing this wonderfully readable book as a faithful resource would be a wise choice to support healthy child development in our preschool classrooms.—Sally Quinn Reed, Executive Director of the Center for Parents and Teachers, Inc.
Deborah Hirschland’s When Young Children need Help: Understanding and Addressing Emotional, Behavioral, and Developmental Challenges explores the fundamentals of how to support three-to-six-year-olds who have emotional and behavioral problems, and provides ideas that can be used in a busy classroom environment. From handling kids with histories of neglect to helping when language is limited, this book is a ‘must’ for teachers and childcare providers working in diverse classrooms or situations.—The Education Shelf, Bookwatch
In this book, Deborah Hirschland shares her considerable experience, compassion, and wisdom so that teachers of young children might better support those many children who need special help. The book provides practical advice on how to observe so as to understand, how to assess so as to plan, and how to help so as to support a child's developing in ways that insure a child will thrive. Rejecting easy answers having to do with diagnostic labels as well as abstract discussions of theory, Hirschland explains in clear and interesting prose the meaning and practical value of key concepts, the host of strategies that are worth considering, and the process that we all need to go through in order to be of help. I recommend this wise and accessible book to anyone who teaches young children and especially to those who feel frustrated or unsatisfied in their work with young children our are in particular need of our help.—W. George Scarlett, Senior Lecturer and Deputy Chair, Eliot-Pearson, Department of Child Development, Tufts University