Emotional Behavioral Disorder

• Distorted body image: “overweight and unattractive”

  Anorexia Nervosa
• A condition that impairs an individual’s ability to properly focus and to control impulsive behaviors, or it may make the person overactive. (Center for Disease Control and Prevention)

  Attention Deficit or Hyperactivity Disorder
• A condition in which emotional responses of an individual are different from generally accepted norms

  Characteristics of Emotional Behavioral Disorder
• One may have witnessed a stressful event or had a big change in their normal lifestyle. This could then have an adverse reaction on their behavior and the child may become prone to truancy, vandalism, or fighting.

  Adjustment Disorder
• The Mental Health Day on 10th of October coincides with the National Mental Health Week, 5th-12th October 2014.
• An exposure to an extremely traumatic event or series of events in a child’s life, or witnessing or learning about a death or injury to someone close to the child.

  Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
• The term “emotional disturbance” was first developed by Eli Mike Bower in the 1960s.
• A serious emotional disorder in which a schizophrenic person may lose touch with reality that would lead to changes in personality

  Schizophrenia
• A repetitive and persistent pattern of behavior in which the basic rights of others or major age-appropriate social norms or rules are violated.

  Conduct Disorder
• One displays anxiety through recurrent and persistent obsessions or compulsions. Behaviors may include repetitive hand washing, praying, counting, and repeating words silently.

  Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
• Due to the potential emotional disturbances, CWEBD may refuse or unsuccessfully be able to utilize educational opportunities offered to them and may seem to be challenging to manage.

  Characteristics of Emotional Behavioral Disorder
• One may be prone to frequent panic attacks. The child may also display inappropriate emotional responses, such as outbursts of laughter or crying out of context

  Anxiety Disorder
• Essential features are binge eating then, compensatory methods to prevent weight gain.

  Bulimia Nervosa
• Characterized by hostile, irritable and uncooperative attitudes in children. (Children’s Mental Health-Ontario)

  Oppositional Defiant Disorder
• Causes: Ending of a relationship or a marriage

  Adjustment Disorder
• A month after exposure to the stressful event, children responses’ include intense fear, difficulty falling asleep, nightmares, numbing of general responsiveness, or may lose skills (toilet training) and expressive language

  Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
• Symptoms: Hallucinations and delusions, disorganized speech, or catatonic behavior

  Schizophrenia
• Physical and Emotional Symptoms: School Phobia, Separation Anxiety, Fear of New Foods and Generalized Anxiety Disorder (Gad)

  Anxiety Disorder
• Brower did a research on identifying students who needed services because of severe emotional and behavioral problems.
• Also known as manic-depressive illness. A brain disorder that causes unusual shifts in mood, energy, activity levels, and the ability to carry out day-to-day tasks.

  Bipolar Disorder
• According to the Wexner Medical Center at Ohio State University, males are two to three times more likely than females to get ADHD.
• Causes: Death of a loved one

  Adjustment Disorder
• Symptoms: Losing touch with reality

  Schizophrenia
• Characteristics: Persistent refusal to comply with instructions or rules

  Oppositional Defiant Disorder
• Symptoms: Disruptive, anti-social and aggressive behavior.

  Emotional Behavioral Disorder
• Symptoms: loss of menstruation, fatigue or muscle weakness, gastrointestinal problems or intolerance of cold weather.

  Bulimia Nervosa
• Cause: Genetic

  Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
• The mainstreaming of exceptional children in the classroom was one of Bower's primary interests. The guidelines for identifying children with emotional handicaps in federal law PL94-142 were based on the conceptual model developed in his book, The Early Identification of Children With Educational Handicaps.
• Characteristic: Stubbornness to compromise with adults or peers

  Oppositional Defiant Disorder
• Characteristic: Parental Objections

  Conduct Disorder
• Cause: Stress

  Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
• Symptoms: seeing or hearing things that don’t exist

  Schizophrenia
• Causes: Being a victim of a crime

  Adjustment Disorder
• Characteristic: Bully or threaten others

  Conduct Disorder
• Causes: Life changing events

  Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
• Signs: extremely low body weight, dry skin, hair loss, depressive symptoms, constipation, low blood pressure.

  Anorexia Nervosa
• a specific diagnosis where the child displays persistent and severe behaviors. Social, Emotional and Behavioral Difficulties.
• Symptoms: holding irrational and unfounded beliefs

  Schizophrenia
• Characteristic: Failing to accept responsibility

  Oppositional Defiant Disorder
• Causes: Having an accident

  Adjustment Disorder