Advanced Methods and Interventions: Emotional/Behavioral Disorders

Describe major issues facing the field of education for students with emotional or behavioral disorders in the early part of the 21st century and the connection of these issues to historical events and trends.

Discuss the relative successes and unresolved challenges that have characterized the historical development of education and treatment for K-12 students with emotional or behavioral disorders.

Explain the appeal of biological factors as causal explanations of emotional or behavioral disorders.

Analyze how cultural factors, perception, and perspective might contribute to behavioral deviance.

Discuss the interplay between family structure and family interactions and their contributions to students’ social and emotional development.

Explain why teachers must consider how the school might contribute to students’ disordered behavior.

Describe types of disordered behavior including attention and activity disorders, conduct disorder, anxiety disorders, depression and suicidal behavior, juvenile delinquency, substance abuse, and teen parenthood and the impact on development and emotional or behavioral disorders.

Design a Behavior Intervention Plan for a student with emotional or behavioral disorders based on functional behavior assessment results.