- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
- Behavioral and Psychological Studies
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Diverse Educational Innovations Studies
- Child Development and Digital Technology
- Education Discipline and Inequality
- Parental Involvement in Education
- Workplace Violence and Bullying
- Stalking, Cyberstalking, and Harassment
University of Florida
2018-2021
Abstract School professionals may provide behavioral support for students using a tiered framework of intervention. Students who display problem behaviors and sustained resistance to interventions within these tiers require special education services under the category emotional disorders. By time receive services, they will have experienced changes in intervention intensity, such as increased reinforcement or modification functional assessment‐informed individualized behavior plans. Yet,...
Students who exhibit emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD) typically have high frequencies of disruptive noncompliant behavior including physical verbal aggression (VA). Physical attracts great concern from school professionals yet VA is often overlooked, despite being a highly pervasive harmful social act. We surveyed 279 first to 12th grade teachers students with EBD assess their perceptions about the harmfulness VA, students’ intent harm, frequency and/or intensity types verbally...
Verbal aggression (VA) is the most prevalent form of perpetrated, experienced, and witnessed by students, with victims experiencing a variety adverse outcomes. Furthermore, VA known to contribute physical aggression, especially for students emotional behavioral disorders. Despite high prevalence, researchers suggest that school personnel may not understand harmful nature VA. We summarize research about VA, schoolwide initiatives, propose effective interventions perpetrators, victims, bystanders.
Students with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD) represent a population in today's schools who have significant needs.Further, researchers estimate between two seven percent of students the United States (US) exhibit long-term or problems, often involving strong negative emotions aggression such that behaviors interfere academic social learning (Kauffman,
Dr. Ann P. Daunic is an emeritus scholar in the Special Education, Psychology, and Early Childhood Studies programs College of Education at University Florida (UF). A graduate Ohio Wesleyan University, she has a doctorate special education from UF master’s science degree psychology Tufts University.