Handling Children's Aggression Constructively

Toward Taming Human Destructiveness

By (author) Henri Parens

Publication date:

06 January 2011

Length of book:

300 pages

Publisher

Jason Aronson, Inc.

ISBN-13: 9780765706874

Hostile, destructive kids become hostile destructive adults and create serious problems for society. Handling Children's Aggression Constructively: Toward Taming Human Destructiveness shows how to prevent the development of disturbed aggressive behaviors in children, giving caregivers and educators the tools they need to handle problems in the making so they won't become more difficult and costly problems to deal with later on. Unlike the fine books previously published on how to handle children who already suffer from significant aggressive behavior disorders, this book takes a preventive approach. It focuses on how the ways in which young children are raised contribute toward aggressive behaviors and recommends techniques to manage children's aggression constructively that can be applied from birth through adolescence.

1 Preface
2 Acknowledgments
Part 3 I. Can We Tame Human Destructiveness?
Chapter 4 1. The EPPI/MCP Study of Aggression
Chapter 5 2. The Critical Interaction between Human Attachment and Aggression
Chapter 6 3. The Impact on the Child of Internally Accumulated High Levels of Hostile Destructiveness
Part 7 II. Handling Aggression in Our Children
Chapter 8 4. What Is Aggression?
Chapter 9 5. Dealing Constructively with Excessive Unpleasure Experiences
Chapter 10 6. Recognizing the Child's Need for Sufficient and Reasonable Autonomy
Chapter 11 7. Compliance
Chapter 12 8. Achieving Compliance: Discipline, Limit Setting and Punishment
Chapter 13 9. Teaching the Child to Express Hostility in Reasonable and Acceptable Ways
Chapter 14 10. Handling Temper Tantrums and Rage Reactions in Growth-Promoting Ways
Chapter 15 11. Helping the Child Cope with Painful Emotional Feelings
Chapter 16 12. Optimizing the Parent-Child Relationship
17 Index
18 About the Author

Henri Parens is a wise and caring teacher and clinician. This thoughtful, comprehensive, and practically helpful guide will support parents and teachers understand and manage a daunting task: children's anger and aggression.