Students With Emotional And Behavioral Disorders: An Introduction For Teachers And Other Helping Professionals (2nd Edition)

Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders: An Introduction for Teachers and Other Helping Professionals (2nd Edition)

In broad, clear coverage of emotional and behavior disorders of students, this book examines historical and societal contexts, assessment, classification, developmental risk factors, major explanatory models, prevention, and intervention in school and other settings. Current research and concepts from education, psychology, psychiatry, and other disciplines are placed in proper context by the author's own extensive teaching and research experience. The resulting coverage strikes an appropriate balance for educators and other professionals preparing themselves to serve students with emotional and behavior disordersFrom the Back CoverStudents with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, Second Edition, provides a broad coverage of the nature, causes, assessment approaches, and interventions of emotional and behavioral disorders. It presents readers with an exploration of the assumptions behind intervention practices and curricula. This emphasis enables educators and professionals to select and use appropriate assessments for effective instruction and classroom management techniques. This, in turn, promotes positive social and academic behaviors, and prevents undesirable behavior from occurring.Through a multidisciplinary perspective, incorporating biological, psychological, psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive, sociological, ecological, and values-based/spriritual models, this edition addressed the causes and intervention techniques for behavior and emotional disorders.Emphasizing the general education classroom, this book also presents a wide variety of real-world examples and suggestions for applying interventions in various settings, including the juvenile corrections system.In this edition: A revised organization and pedagogy that separates the patterns of emotional and behavioral disorder from the connected problems assosicated with such disorders Increased focus on impulsiveness, learning difficulties, and substance abuse of students with emotional and behavioral disorders More emphasis on social problem solving Interventions for particular disorders--aggression, anxiety, depression, impulsiveness, relationship problems, and others More pedagogy including: Chapter Objectives Can You Define These Ten Terms? Summary of Theory and Interventions Tables (Chapters 7-10) Questions for Discussion Resources for Futher Study