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Chapter 4 - Behavioural Disorders and Coping with School

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2022

By
Claire Parker ,
Amelia Paget  and
Tamsin Ford
Edited by
Katie Finning ,
Tamsin Ford  and
Darren A. Moore
Katie Finning
Affiliation:
University of Exeter
Tamsin Ford
Affiliation:
University of Exeter
Darren A. Moore
Affiliation:
University of Exeter
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Summary

This chapter explores how behavioural difficulties and attendance at school can affect each other in different ways and aims to help practitioners to think more about what it is the child is communicating through their behaviour. The chapter considers behaviour in the context of normal development and defining behavioural difficulties and disorders. It moves on to consider behavioural difficulties in relation to attendance and exclusion from school. The chapter emphasises the need to avoid taking behaviours at face value and exploring the child’s individual needs, in the context in which this behaviour is arising, through thinking about adverse childhood experiences, attachment and wider influences. In thinking about the possible needs of the child through holistic assessment the chapter ends with some considerations around moving forward and what we can do to support a more positive trajectory. We hope that practitioners will see the importance of remaining open and curious about behaviour to further understand and support the children and young people they work alongside.

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Mental Health and Attendance at School , pp. 59 - 77
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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