Managing Stress and Distress is part of the How to Help series of
books exploring issues commonly faced by children and young people at
home and in school. Managing Stress and Distress offers an accessible
introduction to how heightened stress levels in young people can lead to
distressed behaviour--and how to manage both. We have left behind a time
when schools found it easier to exclude 'difficult' children than
understand them, but the evolutionary and psychological factors that
often underpin stress responses and their resulting problematic
behaviours remain poorly understood. Offering a complete, compassionate
guide to what stress is, how it arises, the purpose it serves, and the
issues it can cause, Stan Godek argues for a trauma-informed approach of
managing short-term distress while also reducing long-term stress levels
via a regular practice of mindfulness--and shows how parents, carers,
teachers, and schools can help.