How to meet your child's difficult behavior with compassion

This is a great starting place to find out more about the underlying causes of difficult and dangerous behavior in children with disabilities or additional needs, and how you can help. You can also book Newbold Hope's training initiatives from the website.

This article, in 30 numbered points, explains why some children become so overwhelmed with anxiety that they risk hurting themselves and others.

Anxiety in children often looks like something else completely, and it can be incredibly difficult to recognize. This article looks at the link between anxiety and behavior, because the more you understand why meltdown behavior can be so extreme, the more likely you are to be able to prevent the next episode from escalating to the same degree.

When a child has extremely difficult behavior, it's often the parents who get blamed by wider society. Persistent blame, coming from all directions, causes untold and long-lasting harm, not just on the parents but on their whole family. Yet this blame is misplaced. This article explains why it's seldom the parent's fault, and it's not the child's fault either.

In 2022, Newbold Hope worked with more than 150 UK-based families to understand how childhood violence is perceived and supported by public sector services across health, education and social care. The findings were shocking, and families reported feeling abandoned, isolated, misunderstood and blamed. One of the most significant findings was that episodes of childhood violence are 16 times more likely to take place at home, behind closed doors, where these incidents go unseen, unreported and undocumented.

Information and advice specifically for those who are working with this group of children. It's all about difficult and dangerous behavior in children with disabilities and additional needs, why it happens and how you can help.

Yvonne started writing this book on the day that she received her terminal diagnosis for Stage 4 cancer. She felt she had a responsibility to pass on everything she had learnt during her time as a mother to a child with profound disabilities and a life-threatening health condition. There are tips, tricks and strategies at the end of every chapter, all suggestions of things that Yvonne has learnt the hard way from real life.