Students in Discord: Adolescents with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders

by C. Robin Boucher

Overview

Students in Discord fills a void in the professional literature concerning adolescents with emotional and behavioral disorders by providing theoretical information about psychiatric and psychological diagnoses with practical information about actual public school students who show both externalizing and internalizing disorders. In the process, the book provides understanding about disorders in childhood and adolescence and enhances understanding of federal guidelines on emotional disturbance, specifically those provided in the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act. The author provides suggested educational strategies that represent behavioral, psychological, sociological, and environmental models and that aim to both decrease undesirable behaviors and increase desirable ones.

Theoretical issues covering disorders related to personality, disruptive behavior, eating, mood, anxiety, and development are illustrated by 57 adolescents whose feelings and behaviors are presented through anecdotal material, direct quotes from them and their teachers, life facts, and student writings. Additional perspectives are provided by comparing federal and practical definitional characteristics of emotional disturbance and discussing concerns about the inability of students with emotional and behavioral disorders to detach, the inclusion of socially-maladjusted students in the ED (emotionally disturbed) category, and the interrelation of emotional and behavioral disorders.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313307997
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	03/30/1999
Series:	The Greenwood Educators' Reference Collection
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.06(d)
Lexile:	1210L (what's this?)

About the Author

C. ROBIN BOUCHER is an impartial hearing officer for the Washington D.C. Public Schools and resource specialist (emotional disabilities) for the Fairfax, Virginia Public Schools./e She has thirteen years of experience as a teacher of students with autism, emotional and behavioral disorders, and learning disabilities.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Preface
Setting the Stage
Primary and Secondary Samples
Overview: Personality Disorders
Borderline Personality Disorder
Antisocial Personality Tendency
Narcissism
Overview: Disruptive Behavior Disorders
Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity
Oppositional-Defiant and Conduct Disorders
Overview: Eating Disorders
Anorexia Nervosa
Overview: Mood Disorders
Depression
Bipolar Disorder
Overview: Anxiety Disorders
School Phobia
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Overview: Abnormal Adolescent Development
Communication Disorders
Learning Disabilities
Tourette's Syndrome
Federal and Practical Definitional Characteristics
Taking Themselves Too Seriously
ED with or without SM?
Interrelatedness of Disorders
Staying Hopeful and Attuned
They Care If the Sun Is on Fire
Appendix
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

Focusing on those adolescents who are able to function in their communities and who are enrolled in public schools, this volume discusses a wide range of disorders, including definitions of the disorder, theories and facts, examples and cases, and educational strategies for handling students suffering from these disorders. Boucher, a 13-year veteran teacher and impartial hearing officer at a public school district, also covers federal and practical definitional characteristics; the relationship between emotional disturbance and social maladjustment; and the connections between various disorders. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)

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