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Behavior Disorders

• Future Directions with Troubled Children
  A leader in the education of troubled children identifies issues for the future. They include: (1) recognizing emotional and behavior disorders as a disability; (2) enhancing multicultural education with knowledge about commonalties; and (3) basing practices on scientific knowledge.
• Progress without punishment: Effective approaches for learners with behavior problems.
  Recent years have seen dramatic changes in the theory and practice of special education and human service systems. The focus has shifted away from artificial and restrictive environments to deinstitutionalization, community integration, and the development of programs in public schools and vocational and residential settings.
• Progress without punishment: Effective approaches for learners with behavior problems.
  As learners with special educational, developmental, and behavioral needs are increasingly integrated into the community, it is essential that appropriate and dignified ways of responding to those needs are found. This book advocates and explores the use of alternative, nonaversive intervention procedures.
• The effects of social skill instruction and self-monitoring on game-related behaviors of adolescents with emotional or behavioral disorders.
  A study assessed the effects of social skill instruction and self-monitoring on the development and generalization of game-related social skills for adolescents with emotional or behavioral disorders (EBD). Three male EBD students aged 14- to 15-years-old participated in play activities and social skill instruction on peer-reactions, reactions to losing, and reactions to winning.