(EDS 609) Syllabus of Record
Emotional Impairment
Catalog Description: A study of the characteristics associated with emotional impairments in
children and adolescents. Emphasis is on identification, intervention, and collaboration with families
and service providers. A study of the characteristics associated with emotional impairments in
children and adolescents. Emphasis is on identification, intervention, and collaboration with families
and service providers.
Unit Mission, Values, Dispositions:
Mission: We develop quality educators to teach, lead and serve in local and world communities.
Values
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and Student Dispositions:
Inquiry (Scholarly, reflective, and research-based)
Ethics (Fair, accurate, and consistent)
Collaboration (Participatory, inclusive, and supportive)
Decision-Making (Informed, deliberative, and effective)
Unit and Program Standards:
Unit Standards:
 Michigan Department of Education (MDE)
 National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE)
Advanced Program Standards:
National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS)
Specialty Program Standards:
Council for Exceptional Children (CEC)
Course Standards and Assessments:
NBPTS: Proposition 2: Teachers Know Their Subjects and How to Teach Them
 Appreciate how knowledge is created, organized and linked.
 Have specialized knowledge in how to convey the subject.
 Generate multiple paths to knowledge.
Common Course Assessment: EBD Knowledge and Skills Survey
Major Topics:
 Philosophical, Historical, and Legal Foundations of the Education and Treatment of Students
with Emotional/Behavioral Disorders
 Characteristics of Learners
 Assessment, Diagnosis, and Evaluation
Course Knowledge Base:
Achenbach, T. M. (1990). Manual for the Child Behavior Checklist/4-18 and 1991 profile.
Burlington, VT: University of Vermont Department of Psychiatry.
Algozzine, R. Serna, L. & Patton, J. (2000). Childhood behavior disorders: Applied research and
educational practice. Austin, TX: PRO-ED.
American Psychiatric Association (2000 ). DSM IV: Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental
disorders (4th ed.). Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Press.
Braaten, S. (2001). Behavioral Objective Sequence (BOS) Assessment Manual. Champaign, IL:
Research Press.
Breen, M. J., & Fielder, C. R. (1996). Behavioral approach to assessment of youth with
emotional/behavioral disorders. Austin, TX: PRO-ED Coleman, M. C., & Webber, J. (2002).
Emotional and behavioral disorders: Theory and practice (4th ed.). Boston, MA: Allyn &
Bacon.
Council for Children with Behavioral Disorders (October, 2000). Draft position paper on terminology
and identification of emotional or behavioral disorders. Arlington, VA: Author, A Division of
the Council for Exceptional Children.
Epstein, M. H., & Cullinan, D. (1998). Scale for Assessing Emotional Disturbance (SAED). Austin,
TX: PRO-ED.
Erickson, M. T. (1998). Behavior disorders of children and adolescents: Assessment, etiology, and
intervention (3rd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Forness, S. R., Kavale, K. A., Sweeney, D. P., & Crenshaw, T. M. (1999). The future of research
and practice in behavioral disorders: Psychopharmacology and its school implications.
Behavioral Disorders, 24(4), 305-318.
Gadow, K. D., & Sprafkin, J. (1999). Child Symptom Inventories: Early Childhood Inventory-4
(ECI-4), Child Symptom Inventory-4 (CSI-4), Adolescent Symptom Inventory-4 (ASI-4),
The Youth’s Inventory (YI-4). Austin, TX: PRO-ED.
Kauffman, J., & Zigler, E. (1987). Do abused children become abusive parents? American Journal
of Orthopsychiatry, 57, 186-192.
Lane, K. L., Gresham, F. M., & O’Shaughnessay, T. E. (2002). Interventions for children with atrisk for emotional and behavioral disorders. Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
Loeber, R., & Stoutamer-Loeber, M. (1998). Development of juvenile aggression and violence:
Some common misconceptions and controversies. American Psychologist, 53, 242-259.
Wicks-Nelson, R., & Israel, A. C. (2000). Behavior disorders of childhood. Upper Saddle River, NJ:
Prentice Hall.