1. Scenarios
2. What are Behavioral Disorders?
3. Characteristics
4. Causes
5. Approaches
6. Physical Education
7. How to deal with It!
8. What Actions should you take?

1)Setting: High School P.E. class
Student: 10th grade student with a conduct disorder who is frequently abusive both verbally and physically to his peers and constantly challenging the authority of the physical educator.

2)Setting: Elementary P.E. class
Student: 4th grade boy intellectually bright and artistically gifted. Disrespectful, continually off task, gives up immediately and makes inappropriate remarks to others.

3)Setting:Middle School P.E. class
Student: 4th grade girl wants to play with the basketball when the teacher says no repeatedly. Student grabs the ball back from the teacher. Teacher grabs it back as student kicks teacher.Child is angry and throws chair at teacher.

4)Setting: Middle School-Alternative class
Student: 6th grade boy wants to play football with the class. It’s now time to go inside and put the equipment away. The student if defiant and walks off campus! 10 minutes later comes back to the classroom.

• Fourth largest group of children to receive special education.
• Referred to as “Emotionally Disturbed”
• Mild to Moderate
• Several Contributing Factors
• WAC 392-172-118 Emotionally/Behaviorally Disabled students are those who exhibit the following characteristics over a long period of time.
• Inability to learn that cannot be explained by intellectual, sensory or health factors.
• Inability to build or maintain satisfactory interpersonal relationships with peers and teachers.
• Inappropriate behaviors or feelings under normal circumstances.
• General persuasive mood of unhappiness or depression.
• Tendency to develop physical symptoms or fears associated with personal or school problems.
• Students who are schizophrenic.
  

• Hyperactive or conduct disorder (temper tantrums, fighting)
• Distractive (attention problems)
• Impulsive(answer without thinking)
• Aggressive(stealing, truancy, disrespect)

Causes: (one factor alone is not a significant predictor of disordered behavior rather than it’s the combination of factors that can have an adverse affect on behavior)

• Biological-genetic abnormalities, difficult temper.
• Family Factors- broken homes, divorce, chaotic or hostile family relationships.
• School Factors- Problems with socializing, Insensitivity to students individuality.
• Cultural Factors-Students peer groups.
  

Approaches:

• Psychodynamic-helping with emotional problems.
• Psychoeducational-teaching students to acknowledge individual problem.
• Psychoneurological-Acknowledge neurological dysfunction, focus on reduce behavioral characteristics.
• Behavioral-Behavioral modification;self-control technique.

Physical Education:

• Behavioral Disorder students exhibit deficits in perceptual-motor activities.
• Behavioral Disorder characteristics are blamed for poor motor performance rather than the inability to move well.
• Shown to exert positive influence on disruptive behavior.
• Exercise produces better responding during additional movements.

How to deal with It!:

• Ignore
• Calm/Model Behavioral Control
• Time Out
• Structure/Freedom
• Change the Subject/Refocus

What Actions should you take?:

• Seek Individual Responses
• Parents, teacher teams, IEP
• Speak with Practiced & Experienced
• Search Websites
• Adapted Specialists
• Peer Teaching
• Paraprofessionals
• Re-Examine the Goal”Lifetime fitness”

Powerpoint Presentation of Behavioral Disorders