Students in discord adolescents with emotional and behavioral disorders
Title:
Students in discord adolescents with emotional and behavioral disorders
Author:
Boucher, C. Robin.
ISBN:
9780313032448
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Publication Information:
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xvi, 395 p.)
Series:
The Greenwood educators' reference collection,
Greenwood educators' reference collection.
Contents:
Setting the stage -- Primary and secondary samples -- Overview: personality disorders -- Borderline personality disorders -- Antisocial personality tendency -- Narcissism -- Overview: disruptive behavior disorders -- Attention-deficit disorder with hyperactivity -- Oppositional-defiant and conduct disorder -- 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.
Abstract:
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 su.
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