This important resource helps educators understand how trauma and stress interfere with cognitive skills, and how classroom and school activities can be used to restore feelings of safety, empowerment, and well-being. A child in distress, will experience problems with attending, focusing, retaining, and recalling information-all critical functions. This book provides a wealth of activities that can actually reduce anxiety in children which research has clearly shown can lead to healthier cognitive functions as well as behavioral stability. Neglect, abuse, and homelessness have altered the way many children relate to one another their families, and teachers. Through her examination of the neurological research and brain development literature, Oehlberg helps illuminate the understanding of the causes of our students' lack of attention and destructive behaviors. With the wisdom in this important work, teachers can help our children develop new strategies for successful living in a stressful world.\""After completing the post-graduate program in Child Development and Family Studies at the University of Akron, Barbara Oehlberg was employed by the Family Life Program, Office of Adult Education, Cleveland Public Schools. She wrote, Parenting for Peaceful Families: A Resource Guide for Parent Educators, for Ohio’s Governor R. Celeste during that time. Since retirement, Barbara has become an avid reader of neurological research and has become certified as a Child Trauma Consultant by the Institute for Trauma; Loss in Children She serves on their Board of Advisors. She has authored another book on classroom transformation of stress, preschool to grade three. Making it Better:Activities for Children Living in a Stressful World, was published in 1996. Barbara teaches CEU courses for educators through Kent State and Ashland Universities She serves as a consultant for Ohio’s Commission on Dispute Resolution and Conflict Management and provides inservices to Ohio’s schools. | Reaching and Teaching Stressed and Anxious Learners in Grades 4-8, Paperback | Indigo Chapters