Understanding Deeper Developmental Needs Holistic Approaches for Challenging Behaviors in Children by Adam Blanning

How do we best help a child who is struggling?
By learning to look carefully. 
Enlivening  our observation skills allows us to see consistent behavioral patterns  and dynamics that show up in children’s movement, learning, sensing, and  memory. Within those activities we can learn to see archetypal pathways  of development. Watching the way a child moves, listens, eats, or  sleeps offers us insights into a child’s experience of the world. Those  gestures help tell the child’s story. We learn to think in living  processes, not checklists.
Constitutional, or fundamental,  polarities—as introduced by Rudolf Steiner—allow for individualized,  therapeutic approaches to challenges such as aggressive behaviors,  attention problems, anxiety, autistic behaviors, and depression. 
Teachers,  counselors, and medical doctors will find tools here for enriching  their work with children. These constitutional pictures are accompanied  by diverse therapeutic indications that will encourage children to  unfold new growth and maturation, from the inside out.ISBN:       9781584209508