Behavior Management Strategies
RESOURCES-
Parents
- SELPA Behavior Strategies for Parents Handbook
- Improving Your Child's Behavior in Public Settings
- Challenging Behavior in Children
- Factors that Contribute to Challenging Behavior
- About-face for Stormy Preschoolers
- Practical Solutions to Common Behavior Problems
- Kern County SELPA Behavior Support Plan

Early Childhood Educators
- Positive Discipline for Early Childhood Educators
Teachers
- Tips for Preventing Explosions in Easily Frustrated Children
- Using Positive Methods for Change in the Classroom
- Addressing Student Problem Behavior
- The Behavior Home Page
- Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports at the University of Oregon
- Behavior Interventions and School Safety
- Behavior Management Advice Site
- Behavior Contract Samples
- Helping the Child Who is Expressing Anger
- Promising Practices: Teaching Students to Self-Manage Their Behavior
- Understanding Violent Behavior in Children and Adolescents
- Behavioral Disorders: Focus on Change
- Behavior Management: Getting to the Bottom of Social Skills Deficits
- Behavior Problems at School
- School Discipline/Behavioral Issues & Special Education
- Creating a Behavior Plan
Specific Behaviors
- Behavior and Students with AD/HD
- Behavior and Students with Learning Disabilities
- Encouraging Your Child with LD to Follow the Rules
- Working with Students with ODD/Conduct Disorder
- Students with Autism, MR, or other Developmental Disabilities
- Down Syndrome and Behavior
ORGANIZATIONS
- H.E.A.R.T.S Connection
Meetings are held monthly throughout Kern County for family members and friends. Meetings provide information on organizations and services and opportunities to meet other families to share joys, challenges and information. For more information, please call 661.328.9055. - Henrietta Weill Memorial Child Guidance Clinic
The Henrietta Weill Memorial Child Guidance Clinic provides the services and resources necessary to prevent and treat emotional and behavioral problems for Kern County children and their families. For more information or to make an initial appointment, please call the Child Guidance Clinic at 661.322.1021, Bakersfield or 661.725.1042, Delano. - Kern County Department of Mental Health
The mission of Kern County Mental Health System of Care is to provide the most effective, culturally appropriate, highest quality combination of treatment and support to persons with mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, and/or addiction. For more information, please call 1.800.991.5272
OTHER SELPA RELATED RESOURCES
- School Discipline & Your Student
- Classroom Accommodations & Tips
- Respite
- Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD/ADHD)
- Reading and Learning Disabilities
- Autism/PDD
- Down Syndrome
- Conduct Disorder
- Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
- Emotional Disturbance
