ERIC Number: EJ958603
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012
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Teacher Perceptions and Behavioral Strategies for Students with Emotional Disturbance across Educational Environments
Evans, Chan; Weiss, Stacy L.; Cullinan, Douglas
Preventing School Failure, v56 n2 p82-90 2012
The present study examined problem characteristics of students with emotional disturbance in 3 educational environments, the behavior management and intervention strategies their teachers used, and what relation exists between problem characteristics and intervention strategies. Teachers completed a behavior problems rating scale and they indicated how frequently they used 15 strategies to address academic, externalizing, and internalizing problems. There were significant differences across environments for only 1 characteristic of emotional disturbance, physical symptoms or fears. Teachers in general education settings mainly addressed academic problems; resource/separate classroom educators used instructional, positive, and reductive strategies for academic and externalizing problems and verbal reinforcement for internalizing problems. Separate school educators used a variety of strategies consistently for all 3 problems. Implications for supporting students with emotional disturbance across educational environments are discussed. (Contains 6 tables.)
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Intervention, Emotional Disturbances, Rating Scales, Reinforcement, Behavior Modification, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Environment, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Mainstreaming, Rural Schools, Interpersonal Relationship, Student Characteristics, Resource Room Programs, Special Schools
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Language: English
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