Positive Behaviour Support Strategies for Students with Anxious Behaviours: A Step by Step Guide to Assessing, Preventing and Managing Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties

by Dolly Bhargava

We all feel anxious from time to time, but some children experience anxious behaviours that impact their time in the classroom. When a child has problematic anxiety, their prolonged fear and worry can negatively affect how they function academically and socially; their engagement with people and activities will be negatively impacted. Supporting children who exhibit anxious behaviours can leave teachers feeling overwhelmed, unprepared, and unsure of how to respond. Does this sound familiar?

Positive Behaviour Support Strategies for Students with Anxious A Step-by-Step Guide to Assessing, Managing, and Preventing Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties is a highly practical book that can be used by educators in childcare, preschool, schools, and community services to learn the evidence-based approach of Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) to assess, manage, and prevent challenging behaviours in children of all ages who experience problematic anxiety.

Learn how to complete a functional behaviour analysis to document behaviour incidents, identify triggers, and determine the reasons for specific challenging behaviours. Consult the bank of proactive strategies that can be tailored to an individual child’s environment to prevent triggers and promote positive ways of communicating, behaving, and managing emotions. Develop an escalation profile to describe the different verbal and non-verbal signals the child exhibits as their levels of stress, anger, and/or frustration increase, and determine strategies for responding to each escalation stage.

This invaluable resource is useful for parents, caregivers, childcare educators, primary and secondary educators, supervisory, allied health professionals, and mental health professionals.

85 pages, Paperback

Published November 24, 2020

About the author

Dolly Bhargava, MS, is a Speech Pathologist with a Masters in Special Education and the founder of Behaviour Help (www.behaviourhelp.com). Over the last 21 years, she has been working with children, adolescents and adults with complex social, emotional and behavioral difficulties (EBD) in a variety of settings such as early childhood, schools, accommodation, post school options, employment and corrective services. Dolly has seen firsthand how difficult it can be for those who support individuals with EBD. Dolly has developed the Taking CHARGE of my Rainbow of Emotions book and accompanying Rainbow of Emotions App (www.rainbowofemotions.app) to educate, equip and enable individuals with EBD with the necessary emotional regulation skills to help them identify, understand, express and manage their emotions. By enabling the individual to Take CHARGE of their Rainbow of Emotions they can learn positive ways of behaving and managing their emotions.