Stuart G. Shanker (born October 14, 1952[1]) is a research professor emeritus of philosophy and psychology at York University,[2] the founder/CEO of The MEHRIT Centre,[3] and an author and speaker.
[11] According to Shanker, many behaviour, mood, emotional, learning and developmental problems are caused or exacerbated by an overactive stress system.
Shanker proposes a method, called Self-Reg, for managing stress and energy flow in order to reduce the impact of an overactive stress response system on children's day-to-day functioning and development.
All too often, such stresses result in problems with attention, emotion regulation, or behaviour that are mistakenly seen as due to poor self-control or lack of effort when, in fact, they are the result of a heightened stress load.
The reader is presented with practical methods of reducing the respective stresses in a classroom context.