Challenging Behaviors

This article will help parents help their child learn to manage strong emotions and reactions as they become aware of themselves as separate individuals from their parents and the other important people in their world.

How you react when a child lashes out has an effect on whether he will continue to respond to distress in the same way, or learn better ways to handle feelings so they don’t become overwhelming. This explains how adults should respond when children lash out.

This page provides links to behavior intervention resources, including guides, tools, issue briefs, videos & webinars, and general resources.

The Center for Intensive Behavioral Supports (CIBS) project at Illinois State University partners with the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) to develop professional learning and resources to reduce the use of physical restraint, time-out, and isolated time-out.

The Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning (CSEFEL) is focused on promoting the social emotional development and school readiness of young children birth to age 5. CSEFEL is a national resource center funded by the Office of Head Start and Child Care Bureau for disseminating research and evidence-based practices to early childhood programs across the country.

This topical guide offers important books, videos, and information resources on challenging behaviors.

The Challenging Behaviors Tool Kit will provides strategies and resources to address challenging behaviors and help provide support during difficult situations.

This article shows how early childhood educators can use strategies such as teaching empathy, discussing conflict, and developing expectations to support all young children and reduce their challenging behavior.

In this podcast episode, Dr. Angela Searcy shares the importance of considering context when thinking about challenging behavior. Dr. Searcy also shares how the “Push Past It” Approach from her book can be helpful for educators and professionals as a tool to be intentional when addressing challenging behaviors.

This page provides information, videos, and links to an interactive training curriculum that provides current and future early childhood professionals with tools and strategies for guiding preschool children’s behavior in positive ways.

This article provides information regarding behavior and how to help manage children’s behavior at home.

This 5-minute video podcast gives a couple of ideas and tips to help transitions run smoothly for both educators and the children in their classroom.

This article aims to provide an understanding that all behavior is a form of communication that has meaning and every behavior can be described by its form and function.

This 30-minute video presents that all behaviors communicate messages. Children need teachers who model and encourage respectful interactions.