Emotional

Disturbance
Kiara Maldonado
FPU
ECD 440
 A condition exhibiting
one or more of the
Emotional characteristics over a
Disturbance long period of time and
to a marked degree that
Definition: adversely affects a
child's educational
performance.

Behavior Disorders: Definitions, Characteristics & Related Information. (n.d.). Retrieved December 19, 2017,
from http://www.ccbd.net/about/ebddefintion
 Characteristics:
Learning: Relationships: Behavior/ Feelings

● Intellectual ● Build ● Inappropriate

● Sensory ● Maintain ● Under normal
● Health circumstances

Behavior Disorders: Definitions, Characteristics & Related Information. (n.d.). Retrieved

December 19, 2017, from http://www.ccbd.net/about/ebddefintion
 Characteristics Continued :
• Distorted thinking

• Excessive Anxiety

• Bizarre motor acts

• Abnormal Mood Swings

• Hyperactivity

• Aggression/ self-injurious behavior

• Withdraw
Specific Emotional
Disturbances:
● Anxiety

● Bipolar Disorder

● Conduct Disorder

● Eating Disorders

● OCD

● Psychotic Disorders
 Teaching Strategies:

● Display appropriate authority Exercise:

● Explain class goals and routine ● Can help decrease anger,

depression, and disruptive
● Discuss goals often with the behaviors.
student
Exercise should be:
● Develop a contract
● Pleasant
● Demonstrate consistency in
enforcing rules and providing ● Noncompetitive
feedback.
● Moderate intensity

NASET.org Home Page. (2008, January 18). Retrieved December 19, 2017, from
https://www.naset.org/emotionaldisturbance2.0.html#c9045
Who cares
about Kelsey?
●Emotional scars of homelessness and
substance abuse

● As well as the actual scars of repeated

self-mutilation.

●Kelsey was volatile, disruptive and, by her

own admission, "not a nice person" to be
around.

●During Kelsey's sophomore year, a new

school leadership team implemented
Positive Behavioral Interventions and
Supports (PBIS), a youth-directed planning
process called RENEW, and other reforms
to improve the school's culture and reduce
the dropout rate. This school wide overhaul
gave Kelsey a chance at a different
outcome.
Global View:
Mental health inequality:

Mental health inequities are avoidable inequalities between groups of people arising from inequalities within
societies. Conditions that can lead to health inequities.

Challenging mental health inequalities

● Those with severe mental illness are more likely to experience some of the most severe health
inequalities, dying on average between 10 and 25 years earlier than the rest of the population. Building
from the principle that equity should underpin all public policy, when it comes to mental health policy,
factors that could encourage greater equity include:

Equity and inequality. (2017, November 14). Retrieved December 19, 2017, from
https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/a-to-z/e/equity-and-inequality
 References:
Behavior Disorders: Definitions, Characteristics & Related Information. (n.d.). Retrieved
December 19, 2017, from http://www.ccbd.net/about/ebddefintion

NASET.org Home Page. (2008, January 18). Retrieved December 19, 2017, from
https://www.naset.org/emotionaldisturbance2.0.html#c9045

Turnbull, H. R., & Britten, J. S. (2004). Student study guide to accompany Exceptional
lives, special education in todays schools, fourth edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ:
Pearson/Merrill/Prentice Hall.

Equity and inequality. (2017, November 14). Retrieved December 19, 2017, from
https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/a-to-z/e/equity-and-inequality