PO547: Increasing Confidence in Differentiating Emotional Disabilities From Socially Maladjustment

  • PMD: 1
  • Cost: Included in Registration
  • Skill Level: Intermediate
  • Poster Session 6: Promoting Social and Emotional Development

Learner Objectives

This session will help participants…

  1. differentiate between emotional disabilities (ED) and socially maladjustment (SM);
  2. use 20 pairs of descriptors to differentiate ED versus SM;
  3. have additional support for an assessment report with behavior characteristics; and
  4. provide additional research to the study of category of emotional disabilities

Description

This session will examine behavioral characteristics that help differentiate emotional disabilities from socially maladjusted using 20 defining pairs of characteristics across the five IDEA subcategories.

Presenter(s)

Anel Lamadrid, Northern Arizona University
Michael T. McCarthy, PhD, Professor at Northern Arizona Univiersity
Amanda Acevedo-Morales, Graduate Student at Northern Arizona University

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