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Understanding Common Problem Behaviors In Young Children

M parents of young children, child care providers, and preschool teachers are familiar with hard-to-manage or withdrawn child behaviors: a temper tantrum, a defiant child, one who fights over toys, a child who is excessively shy, or one gripped with separation anxiety, for example. These common behaviors pose a difficult question for researchers, practitioners, clinicians, and parents. When is a behavior typical and age-related, a short-lived reaction to the stress of developmental challenge or change versus when is it a symptom of a more serious problem that requires intervention? This special report, based in part on publications written by Susan B. Campbell, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh Professor of Psychology, explores the issues that help to distinguish normal and transient behaviors from those that warn of a child at risk for deeper, continuing emotional and behavior problems. It examines the more typical problem behaviors seen during the preschool years, rather than on those that are primarily biologically-based, such as autism, or those that can arise from pathological caregiving or the experience of a catastrophic or frightening event, such as post-traumatic stress disorder.