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James E. Levine
PRAEGER
Learning from Behavior
Recent Titles in Child Psychology and Mental Health
Children’s Imaginative Play: A Visit to Wonderland
Shlomo Ariel
Attachment Therapy on Trial: The Torture and Death of Candace Newmaker
Jean Mercer, Larry Sarner, and Linda Ross
The Educated Parent: Recent Trends in Raising Children
Joseph D. Sclafani
The Crisis in Youth Mental Health: Critical Issues and Effective Programs [Four
Volumes]
Hiram E. Fitzgerald, Robert Zucker, and Kristine Freeark, editors
Learning from Behavior
James E. Levine
Levine, James E.
Learning from behavior : how to understand and help “challenging”
children in school / by James E. Levine ; foreword by Sophie Freud.
p. cm. — (Child psychology and mental health, ISSN 1538-8883)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978–0–275–99040–4 (alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 0–275–99040–0 (alk. paper)
1. Children with disabilities—Education—United States. 2. Behavior
modification—United States. 3. Classroom management—United States.
I. Title.
LC4031.L455 2007
370.15'28—dc22 2007009384
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data is available.
Copyright © 2007 by James E. Levine
All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be
reproduced, by any process or technique, without the
express written consent of the publisher.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2007009384
ISBN-13: 978–0–275–99040–4
ISBN-10: 0–275–99040–0
ISSN: 1538–8883
First published in 2007
Praeger Publishers, 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881
An imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.
www.praeger.com
Printed in the United States of America
Series Foreword ix
Foreword by Sophie Freud, MSW, PhD. xi
Acknowledgments xv
A Note about Gender Use xvii
Layout of the Book xix
Introduction xxi
1. Stop, Look, and Listen: Understanding Behavior
and the Significance of Relationships 1
2. Common Mental Health Diagnoses: How
They Impact Children 23
3. Translating the Notions of Meaning and Relationship:
Helping Strategies in Action (Or the
Twenty-six Commandments) 39
4. Constructing Behavioral Interventions:
Why We Need More Than a Template 63
5. The Nut and Bolts: Developing, Introducing,
and Implementing the Behavioral Model 75
6. Case Studies 101
7. Going Forward 113
Bibliography 119
Index 125
Series Foreword
curative aspects by its very nature. His goal, as implied in the title, is to
understand the meaning each symptom has for the child and to engage
the child as a collaborator in his or her own treatment. Each plan is indi-
vidualized, developed for the specific child in light of his or her strengths
and vulnerabilities. I really love the caring, respectful, humanistic basis
on which all of Dr. Levine’s interventions are based. We get to know
these troubled children in the many helpful vignettes included in the
text. These are not malevolent children—not even those with a diagnosis
of oppositional disorder—out to combat the adult world. Dr. Levine’s
children are anxious, confused, depressed, traumatized, and desperate
to preserve their battered self-esteem and shreds of dignity. They have
angry meltdowns when the requirements of their environments over-
whelm their fragile identities.
I wish a book such as this had been available when I taught students
social work practice. While the book is aimed at teachers and school
mental health professionals, many helping professionals find themselves
in unexpected situations in which understanding and helping children
become of the essence. As an instructor of social work students who
mostly hoped to become clinicians, I was always looking for a succinct
primer-type book that would deftly integrate theory and practice and
prepare all my students for such interventions, regardless of their spe-
cialty. Now, finally, we have precisely such a book. It surely should
become a basic reader in the education of any mental health professional
who may at some point be faced with diagnosis and/or treatment and/or
consultation to a setting that includes troubled children.
Oh, how I wish I had had the 26 commandments of chapter 3, or the
10 principles of behavioral planning of chapter 4, at my fingertips when
I was a young family worker in a Boston tenement district—or, for that
matter, when I raised my own children. Indeed, while the book is meant
for helping professionals, parents will eagerly embrace the principles
outlined by Dr. Levine. Do not make behavioral plans with goals that
are either reached or failed; a good enough result will last longer than
one effort at perfection. Avoid either-or, rigid thinking. Give children
credit for effort, and save them from hopeless despair. All the concepts
in the book are so clearly explained that any thoughtful parent or care-
giver could understand and apply them. This also implies that I consider
the author’s method of working with children as an approach that could
benefit any children in their inevitable crises of growing up and any par-
ents, teachers, or mental health professionals who want to deal with and
understand difficult situations as expertly and caringly as possible.
Foreword xiii
The author was one of my most talented students, whose career has
already made a dramatic impact on the lives of many troubled children
(and their parents). Such a happy turn of events is the best that can hap-
pen to us as teachers. We thank and applaud Dr. Levine for writing this
rich yet succinct, wonderfully compassionate book that expands on his
knowledge and wisdom, benefiting innumerable families in many differ-
ent settings.
Sophie Freud, MSW, PhD
Professor Emerita of the Simmons
College School of Social Work
Acknowledgments
I am the fortunate product of many fine thinkers over the years. More
specifically, Sophie Freud, PhD, offered kindness, guidance, and men-
torship both during my doctoral studies at Simmons College and in this
effort, and I remain deeply gratified by her knowledge and skill. Miles
Morrissey, LICSW, and Roger Anderson, LICSW, provided much-
appreciated support, friendship, and feedback. My colleague Rebecca
Ettelson, PhD, added thoughtful editorial ideas. Debbie Carvalko, my
editor at Praeger, supplied the gentle encouragement and clear think-
ing to help this project across the finish line. And to my wife, Cheryl
Campbell, and children, Jeremy and Maya, I can say that my apprecia-
tion is surpassed only by my awe for your caring, thoughtfulness, and
love. This book signifies the efforts of us all, even if the end product
reflects my own tone and style.
I am grateful as well to the countless teachers, school counselors,
principals, families, and, of course, the many children who have allowed
me into the day-to-day workings of their lives. Perhaps it sounds like a
cliché, but I have genuinely received as much as I have given. Truly, it
has been a privilege.
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