Download Emotional and Behavioral Disorders

Emotional and Behavioral
Disorders
ESE 380
February 19, 2009
Some Questions
• There is a nearly 4 to 1 ratio of boys to
girls identified with emotional and
behavioral disorders. How might you
explain this?
• A student in ninth grade lashes out at his
teacher, throws this book on the floor, and
runs out of the room. How would you
evaluate this situation?
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.
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
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