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Chapter 8
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Emotional or behavioral disorders (EBD) | The terminology proposed by the National Mental Health and Special Education Coalition to replace the federal terminology "emotional disturbance." |
| Conduct disorder | A disorder characterized by overt, aggressive, disruptive behavior or covert antisocial acts such as stealing, lying, and fire setting. |
| Externalizing behavior | Acting-out behavior; aggressive or disruptive behavior that is observable as behavior towards others. |
| Internalizing behavior | Acting-in behavior; anxiety, fearfulness, withdrawal, and other indications of an individual's mood or internal state. |
| Comorbidity | Co-occurrence of two or more conditions in the same individual. |
| Schizophrenia | According to the National Institute of Mental Health, a chronic and severe mental disorder that affects how a person thinks, feels, and behaves; people with schizophrenia may seem like they have lost touch with reality. |
| Aggression | Behavior that intentionally causes others harm or that elicits escape or avoidance responses from others. |
| Encopresis | Bowl incompetence; soiling oneself. |
| Enuresis | Urinary incontinence; wetting oneself. |
| Zero tolerance | A school policy, supported by federal and state laws, that certain things will be punished regardless of any excuse. For example, having possession of any weapon or drug on a school campus might automatically result in a given penalty. |
| Manifestation determination (MD) | Determination that a student's misbehavior is or is not a manifestation of a disability. |
| Functional behavioral assessment (FBA) | Evaluation that consists of finding out the consequences, antecedents, an setting events that maintain inappropriate behaviors. |
| Behavioral intervention plan (BIP) | Part of the discipline provisions of IDEA; a required plan for a student with disabilities who has behavior problems. |
| Positive behavioral intervention and support (PBIS) | Systematic use of the science of behavior to find ways of supporting desirable behavior rther than punishing the undesirable behavio; positive enforcement procedures that are intended to support a student's appropriate or desirable behavior. |
| Interim alternative educational setting (IAES) | A temporary placement outside of general education for students whose behavior is extremely problematic, but in which their education is continued. |
| Time-out | Removing a child temporarily from the environment to one less stimulating and enjoyable. |
| Prosocial behavior | Behavior that is the opposite of antisocial behavior; desirable ways of behaving that makes people happy to be around. |
| Emotional disturbances | The term used in federal special education laws and regulation for problematic behavior that interferes with education; the federal term used to indicate the problems of emotionally disturbed students. |
| Adverse childhood experiences | Potentially traumatic events occurring before the age of 18- including abuse, neglect, and family dysfunction. |
| Positive behavioral support (PBS) | Positive enforcement procedures intended to help support a studen't s appropriate and desirable behavior. |