Includes bibliographical references and index.

Patience or understanding? -- Misbehavior or mistaken behavior? -- Beyond discipline to guidance -- The guidance premise : family-teacher partnerships -- Using guidance to build an encouraging classroom : beyond time out -- Using guidance to maintain an encouraging classroom : four intervention alternatives -- Sustaining the encouraging classroom : class meetings -- Guidance with boys in early childhood classrooms -- Societal violence and guidance : liberation teaching -- Strong needs, mistaken behavior : strategies for crisis management and comprehensive guidance -- Using the booklet, "Developmentally appropriate guidance," as a training tool -- Appendix A, developmentally appropriate guidance of young children, third edition.