CHILDREN WITH EMOTIONAL AND BEHAVIORAL DISORDER

What are the factors that related with children with emotional and behavioral disorder?

Negative cultural influences

Pathological family relationships

4 MAJOR FACTORS

Undesirable experiences at school

Biological disorders and diseases

BIOLOGICAL FACTORS
There is a relationship between body and behavior and it would therefore seem reasonable to look for a biological causal factor of some kind of emotional or behavior disorder
(Cooper, 2005; Forness & Kavale, 2001)

Influenced by genetic, neurological or biochemical factors or combinations of these

Researcher found evidence of the important role that heredity plays in shaping behavior and personality, specifically the sex-linked differences in many behavioral conditions.

Medications are helpful in addressing the problems of many students with emotional and behavioral disorders if they receive state-of-the-art psychopharmacology
(Konopasek & Forness, 2004) Prenatal exposure to alcohol can contribute to many types of disability and it is including emotional and behavior disorder. But only rarely is it possible to demonstrate a relationship between a specific biological factors and those disorder. No real evidence that biological factors are the only causes for behavioral problems. However, for severe and profound disorders, there is evidence to suggest that biological contribute to their conditions.

Other factors: disease

malnutrition

brain trauma

4 MAJOR POINTS (KAUFFMAN, 2005)

The fact that disorders have biological causes does not mean that they are not emotional and behavioral disorders because they can have a physical cause such as biological malfunction Medical or biological approaches are sometimes of little or no benefit and the primary interventions are psychological or behavioral, eventhough the disorder is known to have primarily a biological cause. Medication do not work well and generally no effective medication are known

Biological or medical treatment of the disorder is seldom sufficient to resolve the problem. Medication may be great benefit but it is seldom the only intervention that is needed

The causes of emotional and behavioral disorders are seldom exclusively biological or psychological. Once a biological disorder occurs, it nearly always creates psychosocial problems that contribute to emotional and behavioral disorder

FAMILY FACTOR
Theory of socialization suggesting that the role of parents is minimal in the development of their childrens personality or social behavior
(Harris, 1995) Family is the primary factor in socialization which including parents that have a significant causal influence on some disorders. Very good parents sometimes have children with very serious emotional and behavioral disorder but in contrast, some neglectful or abusive parents might have children with not significant emotional or behavioral disorders. Parents who are generally lax in disciplining the children but inconsistent in dealing with misbehavior tend to have aggression and problematic childrens

The Federation of Family for Childrens Mental Health was organized to help parents who have children with emotional and behavioral disorder. This federation provide support, resource and also organizing to assist each other in finding resources. (Jordan; Goldberg & Goldberg, 1991)

SCHOOL FACTOR
Children who exhibit disorders when they enter school may become better or worse according to how they are managed in the classroom
(Furlong, Morrison & Fisher. 2005; Walker et al, 2004)

Teachers and peers might be the models of misconduct because the child misbehave by imitating them
( Farmer et al., 2001; Kauffman, 2005a; Kauffman, Mostert, Trent, & Pullen, 2006)

Teacher who is unskilled in managing classroom or insensitive to students individual differences creates an environment where aggression, frustration or withrawal is common responses to the environment and teacher.

CULTURAL FACTOR
Dramatic increases in the ethnic diversity of most communities might contribute to the mistaken identification of behavior (Osher, Cartledge, Oswald, Sutherland, Artiles, & Coutinho, 2004) Level of media especially through television and motion picture The availability of recreational drugs and the level of drug abuse The threat of nuclear accident or war

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