Download Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders

Students with Emotional and
Behavioral Disorders
ESE 380Fall 2009
Some Questions
• Please take one minute to write down
what you think of when you hear the terms
emotional disorder and behavioral
disorder.
The IDEA Definition
• a condition that is accompanied by one or more of the
following characteristics over a long time and to a
marked degree and that adversely affects a child’s
educational performance
•  An inability to learn that cannot be explained by
intellectual, sensory, or health factors
An inability
to build or maintain satisfactory interpersonal
relationships with peers and teachers
Inappropriate types of behavior or feelings under
normal circumstances A general pervasive mood of
unhappiness or depression A tendency to develop
physical symptoms or fears associated with personal or
school problems
Additional Criteria
• The term emotional disturbance includes
schizophrenia but does not apply to
children who are socially maladjusted,
unless they also meet the other criteria for
having an emotional disturbance.
Types of Behaviors
• Externalizing
• persistently aggressive or involve actingout and non-compliant behaviors
• often are characteristics of conduct and
oppositional defiant disorders
• Internalizing
• includes withdrawal, depression, anxiety,
obsessions, and compulsions
Major Categories of Emotional and
Behavioral Conditions
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Anxiety disorders
Mood disorders
Oppositional-defiant disorder
Conduct disorders
Schizophrenia
Anxiety Disorders
• Most common childhood disorder
• Excessive worry, fear, or uneasiness
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Includes:
Separation anxiety disorder
Generalized anxiety disorder
Phobia
Panic disorder
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Mood Disorders
• extreme deviation of mood, in either a depressed or an elevated
direction or sometimes in both directions at different times
Includes:
• Depression, which affects…
o Emotion
o Motivation
o Physical well-being
o Thoughts
o Suicidal ideation
• Bipolar disorder
Oppositional Defiant Disorder
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a pattern of negativistic, hostile, disobedient, and defiant
behaviors
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May include:
loss of temper
Arguments with adults
Irritability
Vindictiveness
Swearing and using obscenities
Blaming others for mistakes and misbehavior, and
Low self-esteem
Conduct Disorder
• a persistent pattern of antisocial behavior that
significantly interferes with others’ rights or with
schools’ and communities’ behavioral
expectations
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Includes:
Aggressive conduct
Property destruction
Deceitfulness or theft
Serious rule violations
Schizophrenia
• a disorder in which people typically have two or more of
the following symptoms:
• hallucinations
• Withdrawal
• Delusions
• Inability to experience pleasure
• Loss of contact with reality
• Disorganized speech
• Contrary to popular belief, schizophrenia is NOT
Multiple Personality Disorder or Dissociative Identity
Disorder
The Criticisms
• Working with a partner or small group,
please identify 3 concerns or criticisms of
the IDEA definition of emotional
disabilities.
A Long Period of Time?
• What do you think is a “long period of
time?”
Marked Degree
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Frequency
Duration
Intensity
Latency
Topography
How Would You Handle This?
• Andy refuses to follow directions and uses
inappropriate language.
• Claudio fights with other students and is
always on the defensive
• Erin is sad all the time and does not speak
or interact with others.