The Behavior Code: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Teaching the Most Challenging Students

"This text takes us one step closer toward blending the education and mental health worlds, extracting the best strategies from both, and applying them to challenging cases. As child psychiatrists be- come even more embedded in schools, consulting to some of the most challenging students, the resources in The Behavior Code are helpful, practical tools we can offer teachers with whom we work." -- Sheryl H. Kataoka, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry "This was an excellent book with really unique ideas on how to help children with challenging behaviors channel their energies in acceptable ways. This is the best book I've ever read on the topic, hands down. " --Teacher's Toolbox "The Behavior Code needs to be read by all teachers, counselors, administrators, and parents!/From cover to cover I felt Minahan and Rappaport were speaking to me, an elementary teacher and a mom. I felt they knew me, and knew those students who kept me awake at night. Teachers, this book is written by authors who KNOW what our jobs are like." -- Lorna d'Entremont, Special Needs Book Review

Based on a collaboration dating back nearly a decade, the authors-a behavioural analyst and a child psychiatrist-reveal their systematic approach for deciphering causes and patterns of difficult behaviours and how to match them with proven strategies for getting students back on track to learn. The Behavior Code includes user-friendly worksheets and other helpful resources.