Essay about Causal Factors of Ebd

Individual risk factors include: being a victim of child abuse, personality disorders, and extreme changes .In family situation, inter-family dependence problems, academic stress, poor academic performance, social deprivation, depression and suicidal. Anon, (2014)

After reading Chapter 2 of Ronald J. Comer’s book, Fundamentals of Abnormal Psychology, I now understand key principles of 4 models that that contribute to understanding abnormalities. The first model is the biological model, which can be linked to Roman and Greek times as I read in chapter 1. It mainly states that the cause of psychological abnormalities is that of physical illness. In addition, the abnormalities are introduced because of malfunctioning parts in the brain. This includes the possible malfunction of neurons that are found in the cerebrum and the possible malfunction of these neurons and the transmissions between them. Other factors may include genes, evolution and viral infections

Before starting the discussion of emotion-focused therapy, it is very important to have an understanding of what emotion is. Historically, emotions were seen as nonspecific and disruptive; however more recent analyses have emphasized the functions that emotions serve (Hebb, 1949). Although emotions address different adaptive problems, they generally facilitate decision making, prepare the individual for rapid motor responses and provide information regarding the ongoing match between organism and environment (Schwarz & Clore, 1983). In addition to this, emotion also serves as a social function for they inform us about others’ behavioral intentions, give us clues as to whether something is good or bad and control our social behavior (Greenberg & Safran, 1987). From an emotion-focused perspective, according to Greenberg (2004), emotion disorder is seen as a result of more failures in the dyadic regulation of affect, avoidance of affect, traumatic

Emotions, thoughts, and behaviors share a communal correlation; thoughts can produce emotional responses; emotional responses can then produce positive and negative behaviors. As a result, a student’s emotions and behaviors have a direct correlation to their thoughts and vice versa (Stonecipher, 2012). In instances where a student is unable to self-manage their behaviors while presented with an issue, a probable outcome would be that the student will then act out inappropriately. As a result, cognitive behavioral interventions often encompass problem solving and anger management strategies (Robinson, 2007). Conducive to effectually self-managing behavior, students must be trained to exercise constructive thinking and reduce the pervasiveness of participating in destructive behavior acquired from an emotional response. Students may obtain this by acknowledging the problem, defining it, producing and assessing resolutions, applying a plan and lastly observing the resolution (Yell, Meadows, Drasgow, & Shriner, 2009). Students should also learn to recognize specific elements including triggers, reminders, and reducers, while trying to self-manage. Teachers must retain patience during this process as students must build these skills up before positive results transpire (Yell, Meadows, Drasgow, & Shriner, 2009).

According to Dr. Christine A. Christle “Risk factors are disabling, cultural, economic, or medical conditions that deny or minimize opportunities and resources for a child and place him or her in jeopardy of failing to become a meaningful member of the home, school, and community.” There are two types of risk factors; internal and external risk factors. Internal risk factors would be risk factors that are within the own individual; such as having concentration problems, anger problem or having a disability. Internal risk factors only involve the one child and they are built from within the child. Now, external risk factors are those that involve the child’s “environment conditions such as family, school, and community”; an example of that is the family living in poverty, living in a bad neighborhood with crime and drugs, attending a bad school or not having any friends.

Behavior disorder is defined as “Any of various forms of behavior that are considered inappropriate by members of the social group to which an individual belongs.” (The American Heritage Stedman 's Medical Dictionary, 2015) Due to its broad definition, methods of identification, diagnosis, and treatments are varied and controversial. After my son was diagnosed with Sensory Processing Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in November of 2012, I recognized a stigma within the community surrounding behavior disorders that made it difficult to find the appropriate support for my son and my family. This paper will discuss the causes of behavior disorders, methods for proper identification, and problems that can arise in the home, school, and community of a child with a behavior disorder.

In this chapter they talked about the treatment of psychological disorders. Freud applied a systematic treatment procedure called psychoanalysis. Which can also be known as the “talking cure.” Some methods used to treat people are discussion, advice, emotional support, persuasion, conditioning procedures, relaxation training, role playing, drug therapy, biofeedback, and group therapy. (pg596) The three major categories used in treatment are insight therapies, known as the talking therapy, engages clients in complex verbal interactions with their therapists. The next one is behavior therapies, which emphasize personal insights. Behavior therapists make efforts to alter problematic responses and maladaptive habits. And lastly, they talked about

The models are biological, psychodynamic, and human existential model all three have key components that contributes but have to be in order. For example, I have an individual that is sixteen years old named Mark and he is struggling with depression. First as a, therapists I would use the biological model because it will help me find a starting point to the reason why it may have occurred in this individual. Biological will help the therapist find maybe genetic connection to why this abnormal behavior has been obtained. Second, the therapist should use the psychodynamic model to look for the past experiences or interactions with such individuals such as mother or farther. Psychodynamic will focus more on the forces such as the id, ego, and superego. Most likely it will show that individual is having conflicts called fixation. Fixation is basically described as an error between all three of the forces that causes the individual to struggle with great personality. Most likely the id will show the therapists why individual is depressed this where the find that individual may have been neglected by maybe the mother or farther. Third, the individual most go through the first type of therapy in the psychodynamic known as free association and therapist interaction. Free association will help the patient speak freely of thing that comes to mind and most likely them to

The abnormal psychology model that I am choosing to write about is the Biological Model along with behavioral-cognitive model. Why? I believe it plays a key part in diagnosing an individual not only with a mental disorder but any for that matter. As well how psychology has come so far from performing lobotomies and trephinations to cure a person from their disorder to now prescribing medications to deal with the disorders. But at the same time we need for example the behavioral-cognitive model to help with treatments other than just medication.

All papers published in this journal relate to the education of students with behavioral and emotional disorders through reports of theoretical papers and original investigations.

By modeling they are demonstrating the behavior themselves. After this they will assist the client in imitating the behavior. The client will work with the therapist to list treatment goals and to determine target behaviors. Modeling therapy is based on social learning theory. This theory emphasizes the importance of learning from observing and imitating role models, and learning about rewards and punishments that follow behavior. The technique has been used to eliminate unwanted behaviors, reduce excessive fears, facilitate learning of social

This week’s wiki presents an in-depth discussion of emotions and sensations which, assumed by all models are a normal part of being human. Furthermore, the models assume that all humans experience emotions. A similarity across the models suggest that for change to occur the therapeutic alliance must be strong and therapists must show positive regard for their clients. Hence, it is safe to say each model presented has the common factor, therapeutic alliance - an integral aspect of counselling - embedded into its model. Therefore, regardless of the modality applied the role of the therapist is integral for positive clinical outcomes.

Adversity or ‘risk factors’ are those stressors, which threaten the healthy development of a child. This threat occurs to a child’s material, social or emotional needs and abilities (Garborino & Ganzel,2000). Cumulative risk in instances where children have limited resources is also associated with an increase in behavioural problems or complications with social competence. Masten and Powell (2003) distinguished between non-independent and independent risks. Independent events are influences that occur externally to a child and includes events such as the death of a parent, poverty or war. Non-independent events are those related to the behaviour presented by the individual. Garborino and Ganzel (2000) described risk as not only originating

The importance of educators understanding the complex process to determine if a student is truly EBD: In the assigned readings and research my classmates and myself learned that there are many components that educators and evaluators must look at to determine if a student “truly” has EBD. I further was able to solidify this line of thought during a conversation I had with the Special Education Teacher I have been interviewing and practicum study with during my GCU Journey (including our Week One Assignment). As Mrs. Fairchild Romero and our textbook noted the process to determine if students have emotional behavior disorders can be at times be long and require much data gathering information before to ensure an accurate an effective decision

However the psychodynamic model fails to take into consideration the effects of the environment as does the medical model both are concerned with the internal workings and defects. The Psychodynamic model has had a lot of opposition as it is difficult to define and research, as processes like the id, ego and superego operate on an unconscious level and therefore there is no real way of knowing for certain if they are indeed happening. Most of the evidence provided by this model has been individual case studies which in itself makes it difficult to generalise.