The book begins with a discussion of current practices in the education and management of students with emotional and behavioral disorders. Subsequent sections define and classify behaviors, identify styles of coping, show procedures for identification, and present educational interventions.

You'll find chapters covering depression, dignity, interventions, instructional planning, and most importantly classroom practices.

Special Features

• A unique presentation that traces the transition and etiology of behavior disorders up to today
• Includes models for intervention, planning, classroom strategies, and research implications
• Highly practical and translates research into classroom practice

Contents

1. Current Perspectives on Emotional and Behavioral Disorders
2. Educational Practices

Part One: Affective Considerations

3. The Relationship Between Pupil Affect and Achievement
4. The Emotional Development of Exceptional Students
5. Depression in Children and Adolescents: Identification, Assessment, and Treatment
6. Promoting Dignity: Taking the Destructive D's out of Behavior Disorders

Part Two: Models of Intervention

7. Engineered Classroom
8. Teaching Children Self-Control
9. The Helping Teacher/Crisis Teacher Concept
10. Developing Self-Regulated Learners
11. Courage for the Discouraged: A Psychoeducational Approach to Troubled and Troubling Children

Part Three: Instructional Planning

12. Developing Instructional Materials for Children with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders
13. Integration of Exceptional Children into Regular Classes: Research and Procedure
14. Procedures for Developing Creativity in Emotionally Disturbed Children
15. Curriculum Modification as a Strategy for Helping Regular Classroom Behavior-Disordered Students

Part Four: Classroom Practices

16. Classroom Scheduling Techniques for Children with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders
17. Therapeutic Discussion Groups in Public School Classes for Children with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders
18. Application of the Self-Control Curriculum with Behavior-Disordered Students
19. Classroom Management: Teacher-Child-Peer Relationships
20. Management of Aggressive and Violent Behavior in the Schools
21. Perspective on the Future

416 pages
1998/paperback/ISBN 978-0-89108-254-5
$48.00