ATTENTION: EDUCATION AND FAMILY WRITERS

11.29.00
Contact: Patricia McBroom
(510) 643-7944 pmb@pa.urel.berkeley.edu

"Children's Social and Emotional Development: Essential Building Blocks for Learning", a day-long workshop at the University of California, Berkeley, will present recent research on young children. Teachers and child care workers will hear from campus researchers how they can foster optimal conditions for learning and how they can interpret a child's troublesome behavior.

STORY TIPS:

* A violence prevention program called Safe Start, implemented experimentally in 15 Bay Area child care centers, has led to a decline in aggression and withdrawn behavior among the children who participated.

* Children who are rejected or neglected by their peers develop behavioral and health problems that can be alleviated by teachers with specific interventions.

* How do researchers predict attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children of preschool age who are already naturally impulsive and hyperactive?

* Teasing in children can have positive effects, helping them to negotiate conflict, socialize one another and express affection.

* Researchers can now trace the outlines of problematic behavior in preschool children and talk to parents about how to deal with these problems.