SED 4300 - Assessment and Methods for Emotional and Behavioral Disorders

Credits: 3

Prerequisite(s): SED 3250

Corequisite(s): SED 4301

Description: This course is designed for teacher candidates to learn how to select, adapt, and use instructional interventions and strategies with students with emotional and behavioral disorders in a variety of settings. Theoretical approaches, identification, educational placement, and evaluation issues will be addressed. In addition, specific categories of disordered behavior, such as bipolar, depression, anxiety, oppositional defiant disorders, schizophrenia, and childhood psychosis, will be discussed. Teacher candidates implement these instructional practices in the co-requisite field experience.