E-book | Emotional Poverty in All Demographics: How to Reduce Anger, Anxiety, and Violence in the Classroom by Ruby K. Payne, Ph.D.

Description

Emotional Poverty in All Demographics, Second Edition, provides basic understandings about emotional development that counselors get but teachers do not get in undergraduate programs.

It looks at:

• Basic brain processing of emotions.
• Early developmental emotional stages from birth to adulthood.
• Attachment and bonding and its impact on discipline.
• The role of shame (less-than experiences) in the development of violence.
• The basic structural differences in male and female brains and the impact on emotional processing and learning (females have more blood flow across hemispheres and males have more blood flow within hemispheres, so it becomes more difficult for the male brain to process words with emotions).
• The stages of adult development that impact how teachers teach. Most teachers use a cognitive style of discipline and do not understand the emotional processing of learning and behavior.

Emotional poverty happens when the brain is not regulated, when the inner self is underdeveloped, when bonding and attachment are lacking, and when students consistently feel “less than” or “separate from” their peers.

This second edition of Emotional Poverty in All Demographics: How to Reduce Anger, Anxiety, and Violence in the Classroom will help teachers and school administrators to:

• Know how emotional poverty can impact a classroom
• Learn about the motivations for behavior, whether good or bad
• Realize that some discipline strategies work with certain students but not with others
• Find out why students who feel they don’t measure up or don’t belong often struggle in the classroom
• Learn strategies for achieving better outcomes for males, who make up about half of the student population but are the focus of about 75 percent of discipline referrals.