TY  - CHAP
AB  - The purpose of the present chapter is to provide an overview of issues facing families of children and youths with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD). We argue that although much is written about families of individuals with disabilities, comparatively little is known about families with children in this category. We suggest that the diversity of family contribution to the individual's EBD makes studying families of this population as a unitary group quite difficult. Despite the difficulty in adequately capturing families of individuals with EBD as a single unit, we describe what is known about (a) parental satisfaction with services for children with EBD, (b) issues affecting parental and family involvement in special education programming and decision-making, (c) the impact of a child with EBD upon siblings, and (d) interventions for EBD that involve families. We conclude by pointing to areas of need for additional research and noting that while educators are in a unique position to assist families of children with EBD, they are restrained by lack of adequate training, competing policy agenda, and constraints on the resources necessary to add this responsibility to the role of classroom teachers.
VL  - 23
SN  - 978-1-78052-507-5, 978-1-78052-506-8/0270-4013
DO  - 10.1108/S0270-4013(2012)0000023013
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0270-4013(2012)0000023013
AU  - Brigham Fredrick J.
AU  - Bakken Jeffrey P.
AU  - Rotatori Anthony F.
ED  - Jeffrey P. Bakken
ED  - Festus E. Obiakor
ED  - Anthony F. Rotatori
PY  - 2012
Y1  - 2012/01/01
TI  - Chapter 10 Families and Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders
T2  - Behavioral Disorders: Practice Concerns and Students with EBD
T3  - Advances in Special Education
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 207
EP  - 231
Y2  - 2024/04/20
ER  -