E SPE 369 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Emotional And Behavioral Disorders
6 Sep 2016
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Children and youth with emotional or behavioral disorders are disabled by behaviors that are discordant with their social-interpersonal environments. The most common definition used in educational contexts is the one proposed originally by. Bower and incorporated into the federal rules and regulations for idea. This definition specifies marked and persistent characteristics having to do with the following: school learning problems, unsatisfactory interpersonal relationships, inappropriate behavior and feelings, pervasive unhappiness or depression. Physical symptoms or fears associated with school or personal problems inclusion and exclusion clauses of questionable meaning have been appended to these characteristics in the federal definition. Although improvements in definition are possible, and more objective criteria for identification are being developed, teachers, responsibility for judging students" behavior cannot be avoided. A new definition has been proposed by the national mental health and special education. Coalition using the term emotional or behavioral disorder.
