Root Issues of Student Behavior Problems

 

Table of Contents

 

Chapter One – Have We Really changed?                                                  1

                          Societal Context (or the big picture)                                   2

                          Community Context (or the little picture)               4

 

Chapter Two – They Don’t Want To                                                            6

 

Chapter Three – Bad or Different?                                                              14

 

Chapter Four – Punishment or Consequences?                                           18

                          What Doesn’t Work                                                            18

                          What Does Work                                                                 21

 

Chapter Five – Brain Chemistry and Behavior                                            25

 

Chapter Six – Student Violence                                                                    29

 

Chapter Seven – Common Behavior Problems                                            34

                             Detachment Disorder                                                       34

                             ADD, ADHD                                                                     35

                             Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)                            37

                             Conduct Disorder (CD)                                                    39

                             Useful Methods to Impact                                                43

 

Chapter Eight – Effective Interventions                                                       45

 

References                                                                                                     50

 

About the Authors                                                                                          53