Emerging Research and Issues in Behavioral Disabilities

Timothy J. Landrum · Bryan G. Cook · Melody Tankersley

Nov. 2018 · Emerald Group Publishing

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The challenges associated with the education and treatment of children and youth with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD) have proven to be both persistent and exceedingly complex. Thus, our best hope for improving outcomes for students with or at risk for EBD lies not in miracle cures or the eradication of all disorders, but in the incremental progress that furthers our understanding of the nature of EBD, enabling us to systematically refine interventions. Toward these goals, this volume focuses on emerging research and issues related to students identified with or at risk of EBD.
Chapters within the volume include reports of original research, and summaries of new and emerging research issues. Specific topics include: bullying; technology-based self-monitoring; issues around the direct observation of both student and teacher behavior; the characteristics of youth served in residential or other alternative settings because of their EBD; and the application of function-based logic to social skills intervention. Two additional chapters examine issues around identifying evidence-based practice in EBD, including guidance for practitioners who may be overwhelmed by the challenges of teaching students with EBD, as well as the vast array of resources they must sift through to locate credible and reliable information on effective interventions.

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Timothy J. Landrum is a Professor of Special Education at the University of Louisville. Among his 90 publications are CEC’s Standards for Evidence-based Practices in Special Education (2014), and Characteristics of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders of Children and Youth (2017), with James M. Kauffman, now in its 11th edition.Bryan G. Cook is a Professor in the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia. His professional interests include evidence-based practice and open science in special education. He co-edits the journal Behavioral Disorders, and is associate editor for Exceptional Children and Remedial and Special Education. Melody Tankersley is Senior Associate Provost and Graduate Dean at Kent State University, where she is also a Professor of Special Education. She focuses her scholarship on issues related to identifying and using evidence-based practices, positive behavioral programming, the prevention of emotional and behavioral disorders, and parent interventions.