Presentation:

Ronald Mah, LMFT, therapist and author of numerous books on childhood behavior, including Getting Beyond Bullying and Exclusion, PreK-5
Children with challenges can encounter difficulties in navigating their journeys within mainstream classrooms. This training focuses on the vulnerabilities of youngsters to be bullied, especially those with learning disabilities, attention deficit hyperactive disorder, Asperger syndrome, and gifted abilities, and also discusses the tendencies for these children to become bullies. This will aid understanding of common challenges and look at how children with special needs can become easy targets for bullies.

Also discussed is how adults can inadvertently facilitate development of victim behavior in children or contribute to the development of bully personalities; including classic male and female bullying models; preventing and stopping bullying; early intervention before a negative dynamic progresses into middle or high school; and the  “90-Second-a-Day Self-Esteem Prescription Plan” to improve children’s self-views.  This training helps increase the sensitivity and expertise that adults need to help children with special needs become more resilient and experience success. Getting Beyond Bullying and Exclusion, PreK-5 (click to go to Google Books preview)

Learning Objectives

1. Paticipants will learn about the relationship among self-esteem and bullies, victims, and survivors and common social difference between boys and girls and how male and female bullying styles.

2. Participants will learn about how anxious vulnerability makes some children become targeted by bullies.

Presenter

Ronald Mah is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist whose experiences include community mental health, Severe Emotional Disturbance (SED) school programs, vocational programs for at-risk youth, welfare to work programs, Head Start, supervising a high school mental health clinic, work with diverse populations, private practice in San Leandro, credentialed teacher, Masters of Psychology instructor, author of the Asian Pacific Islander Parent Education Support curriculum for the City and County of San Francisco, Department of Human Services. He is also author of Difficult Behavior in Early Childhood, Positive Discipline for PreK-3 Classrooms and Beyond and The One-Minute Temper Tantrum Solution, Strategies for Responding to Children's Challenging Behaviors and many other titles.