Positive Interactions with At-Risk Children: Enhancing Students’ Wellbeing, Resilience, and Success

Mojdeh Bayat · Naseem Jamnia

Jan 2019 · Routledge

About this ebook

Find the tools and knowledge you need to build resilience in all children from an early age through appropriate interactions and conversations. Presenting a wide range of research in an accessible format, Positive Interactions with At-Risk Children explains how to understand and assess behaviors in the context of children’s developmental stages.

This book introduces Bayat's original Resilience-based Interaction Model (RIM), which combines behavioral and emotion-based theories of development to provide practical steps for early childhood teachers and professionals. RIM features research-based practices, including relationship building, behavior guidance, body-mind exercises for both teachers and students, as well as strategies to promote strengths of character in children and aid future learning.

Ideal for new and veteran educators alike, Positive Interactions with At-Risk Children is an invaluable guide to early years behavior.

About the author

Mojdeh Bayat is Professor of Child Development and Education at DePaul University, USA and internationally recognized expert in early childhood development and education of children with developmental disorders and mental health issues.

Naseem Jamnia is a former scientist and a current MFA student at the University of Nevada, Reno. A freelance writer, editor, and activist, they have published in The Washington Post, The Rumpus, Bitch Media, and more.