Study Guide for Help for Billy

by Heather T. Forbes, Jim Sporleder, Mimi Emeline (Illustrator)

This chapter by chapter study guide follows the ground-breaking book, "Help for A Beyond Consequences Approach to Working with Challenging Children in the Classroom. It is created for teachers to help in creating trauma-sensitive classrooms. This study guide is a must for any teacher, school, or school district needing to answer the question, "What does this really look like to have a trauma-sensitive focus?" It is ideal to use for a book study group of educators to generate discussions, explore new approaches, and implement effective strategies for students who exhibit challenging behaviors.

Paperback

Published March 17, 2016

About the author

Heather T. Forbes, LCSW, is the owner of the Beyond Consequences Institute. She is an internationally published author on the topics of raising children with difficult and severe behaviors, understanding the parent’s reactivity when challenged in the home, and working with challenging children in the classroom. Forbes lectures, consults, and coaches parents throughout the U.S. and internationally with families in crisis working to create peaceful and loving families. She is passionate about supporting families and professionals by bridging the gap between academic research and "when the rubber hits the road" parenting. Much of her experience and insight on understanding trauma, disruptive behaviors, developmental delays, and adoption-related issues comes from her direct mothering experience of her two internationally adopted children.

Reviews

[Erin McDonnell-Jones · Rating 3 out of 5]

Offers good reflection questions and helpful analysis for the first half of the book (where she discusses development and brain functions). Second half might be difficult to use in its entirety because it seems to focus more on elementary students and examples from the text rather than allowing it to connect to secondary.

[April · Rating 1 out of 5]

While advertised as being great for anyone who works with children, the wording & questions are definitely geared toward classroom teachers.