Working with Students with Emotional and Behavior Disorders: Characteristics and Teaching Strategies

Pragmatic. Comprehensive. Eclectic. Unique.

A worthy overview of the challenges teachers and other professionals face working with students with emotional and behavior disorders, this functional guide combines the different developmental theories with practical applications for teaching students with Emotional and Behavior Disorders. Keenly focused on the success of these students, the author gives equal attention to their behavioral, social, academic, and emotional needs. Divided into three distinct sections Foundations of Emotional and Behavior Disorders, Teaching Children with Emotional and Behavior Disorders and The Successful Teacher, the text addresses the most pertinent issues and topics while covering key issues and content not found in other books on the subject. Intended for beginning teachers, seasoned teachers, alternatively certified teachers, counselors, parents, and administrators, the text provides professors and students with a holistic approach to working with students with emotional and behavior disorders. This text will greatly benefit teachers in the classroom and the EBD students they instruct by supporting, preparing and guiding them for a successful teaching career.

Special features of this new text include:

• Abundant practical strategies and interventions for use in the classroom (Chapters 6-9) that help educators meet the behavioral, social, academic, and emotional needs of students with EBD.
• Sequential case studies of “Johnny” and his experience of living with EBD tie directly to issues discussed in each chapter help readersto understand the entire process, from the pre-referral to meeting Johnny’s behavioral, social, academic, and emotional needs.
• Suggestions for the emotional, social, and physical well-being of the teacher (Chapter 12).
• The necessary steps to developing, writing and implementing an IEP (Chapter 5).
• Steps for implementing functional behavioral assessments and the development of behavioral intervention plans (Chapter 6).
• Information on social skills training is provided (Chapter 7).
• Examples of basic counseling skills and school-based mental health programs (Chapter 9).