This video examines current thinking among teachers regarding guidance and discipline, the factors that separate acceptable from challenging behavior, and why they think children's misbehavior should be considered as "mistaken" rather than "wrong." Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video is resource for bringing real-life challenging childcare situations into child development classes, workshops, and in-service training sessions for observation and discussion. Includes: VHS and Facilitator's Guide

This book presents a six-step mediation process adults can use to support young children during these tense moments.

The goal of this video's four-part strategy is to help children cope with the dozens of frustrations, conflicts, and strong feelings that they experience on a daily basis. Available in DVD and VHS formats. Includes: Study Guide

This video combines current research on self-regulation, brain development, and caregiver practice. Shows children experiencing a range of emotions and of care-givers applying supportive practices in a variety of settings. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video demonstrates how early intervention at a preschool for young children with challenging needs can help parents learn positive strategies to break the cycle of oppositional behavior. Available on VHS and DVD.

This documentary film was shot over the course of a year at a cooperative nursery school. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

MORE TIME TO TEACH will reduce classroom disruptions, improve school atmosphere, and bring the joy back to teaching.

Written for educators and parents who believe that all children deserve the best education possible, this guide encourages and enables the viewer to identify gifted children as early as age 4 and to create a learning environment that supports all students.

This outstanding three-part video-based training program includes 1) The Violence That Children Can See, 2) The Power of Relationships - to help children feel safe, 3) The Need To Be Heard - how community violence can effect teachers an caregivers. Includes training manual. Available in English and Spanish.

This video involves various child care experts who illustrate methods of creating a healing environment for infants that were born with drug-addicted and alcoholic parents. Rebuilding the emotional and psychological foundations for these infants is what the healing setting attempts to achieve.

Observe challenges that become catalysts for learning. In eleven vignettes, using spontaneous footage of children with their teachers, much of the focus in on challenges the children face. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

Developmentally appropriate practice implies that teachers understand child development and individual uniqueness. This tape explores how teachers process all this information to come up with the best possible resolution for each situation. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This 3-hour training workshop is an introduction to the many aspects of challenging behavior, including the strong feelings this behavior may evoke in the providers themselves. Includes: Training Workshop includes 2 VHS, Facilitator’s Guide, & CD-ROM.

This is a book about integrating preventive mental health practice into public schools (preschool through grade 5).

This book address the most difficult problems that teachers can face with their children and offers insights and strategies on how to respond in the best interest of children.

In this video, the authors of the book, Challenging Behaviors in Early Childhood Setting; Creating a Place for All Children, offer their expertise which is then implemented in the classroom. Includes: VHS

This video program for adults working in infant and toddler settings shows many strategies caregivers can use to respond sensitively and positively to children's social conflicts. Includes: VHS

This book addresses a wide range of challenging behaviors in children both with and without disabilities.

To help children learn to express angry feelings in ways that won't hurt anybody. Closed captioned. Includes: VHS

This important new video offers six problem-solving steps to use to help children in conflict situations. Includes: VHS or DVD

This series show how to create a preschool classroom that helps reduce behavior problems and how to cope with challenging behavior. Also sold separately (Items 11103-11107). Available in VHS format only.

The purpose of this video is to present to early childhood educators general information regarding children who have been prenatally chemically exposed. It is intended to help teachers of young children identify this group of children and to understand how it feels to be a teacher working with these children. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

Easy and proven ways are explored in this tape to create an environment that maximizes learning gains and minimizes discipline problems. The learning environment, including room arrangement, safety and health factors, and schedules, is examined. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This book is meant to guide both parents and child-care providers in methods to foster healthy growth and development of children from birth to age five.

This video and guide providers caregivers with activities and materials that focus on biracial and multiethnic children and that support children with the task of developing a positive sense of racial and cultural identity.

Children are harder to work with and more needy than ever before and the schools are struggling with their ever-more-numerous isues. Includes: VHS

The 3-stage procedure presented in this program is designed to eliminate problem behavior while establishing positive behavior to replace it. Geoff Colvin, Ph.D., the University of Oregon, and program developers at IRIS Media have collaborated to produce realistic vignettes showing common non-compliant behavior and effective strategies for correcting it as well as for encouraging cooperative behavior. Includes: VHS and reproducible Viewer's Guide

Accidents, illnesses, suicides, violent acts, and natural disasters can have an overwhelming impact on children and the adults who care for them.

Learn how to use every conflict as a teaching opportunity.

This video by George J. DuPaul and Gary Stoner, using a live classroom setting, shows how teachers and other school professionals can implement a range of strategies to promote the success of children with ADHD while keeping the whole classroom functioning smoothly. Includes: VHS and Manual

This video and workbook outlines a best practice approach to successfully integrate elementary and middle school students with Emotional Behavioral Disorder (EBD)into the educational mainstream. Available in DVD and VHS formats. Includes: PDF Workbook

In this video and in "Practical Applications of Brain-Based Learning," Eric Jensen talks about how the brain learns and some of the things that create problems and impair learning. He offers countless strategies to support the learning process. Includes: VHS

This book challenges us to make classrooms places where children and teachers learn how to identify, manage, and understand their feelings and perceptions.

This four-video series presents an innovative approach for preventing bullying across all constituencies who play a critical role in a school community: parents, teachers, paraprofessionals, administrators, and pupil-services staff (psychologists, counselors, social workers, and school nurses). Available in DVD and VHS formats. Includes: Manuals

This book combines a theoretical foundation with a practical basis for making preschool classrooms function as therapeutic environments. It introduces an innovative method of designing curriculums that helps children integrate experience affectively as well as cognitively.

This is a “how-to” manual for every program seeking to address biting incidents from developmental, emotional, and practical perspectives.

Life With a New Baby helps parents understand what older children might be feeling with the arrival of a new baby and ways to deal with the changes in the family.

Helping Children With Divorce gives insight into children's concerns and feelings about divorce and ways to help with the changes it brings.

Materials to help professionals build family skills to cope with a parent's mental illness are designed here for families with children ages 6 to 10 years old. Includes: Why My Mom Still Loves Me (20 minutes), Good Weather or Bad (24 pages)and resource manual.

In this tape you will observe three classrooms: toddlers. preschoolers, and kindergarten-aged children. In each of these situations children are busy, relaxed, and unhurried. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

In this video teachers describe the concept of positive guidance and what they need to know about children before they find the appropriate techniques for dealing with challenging behavior. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

Playing with friends is usually a happy ritual for most children, but children with learning disabilities are often isolated and rejected. Their impulsive, immature, and unpredictable behavior is often misunderstood by peers and adults. Available on VHS with Guide

With 25-page Manual. This video by George J. DuPaul and Gary Stoner demonstrates a comprehensive model for assessing ADHD in schools, emphasizing effective collaborative decision making linked to intervention planning. Presenting the case of Todd, an elementary school student with undiagnosed ADHD, the video shows how assessment team members evaluate Todd's behavioral functioning. Available in VHS format only.

This program documents a ground-breaking training project that offers solutions for creating harmony between law enforcement and the youth of a community. Includes: Four VHSs, 63-page Manual, 24 Handouts, and PowerPoint Presentation with Overhead Slides

Making Rules Work offers help with one of the most challenging aspects of parenting--making rules and sticking to them with firmness and understanding.

Getting Used to Child Care focuses on the process of adjusting to child care and gives useful strategies for parents to use over time.

This video explores preventive discipline and how behavior problems can be anticipated before they start. Host Rick Lavoie, a nationally known expert on learning disabilities, offers practical advice on dealing with behavioral problems quickly and effectively. Includes: VHS and Guide

Materials to help professionals build family skills to cope with a parent's mental illness are designed here for families with children ages 6 to 10 years old.

The FamilyCares project consists of a series of easy-to-read, illustrated pamphlets with helpful hints on how parents can help children deal with common everyday family issues. Includes: 100 pamphlets available in both English and Spanish