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Mitchell Yell, Ph.D., is the Fred and Francis Lester Palmetto Chair of Teacher Education
and Professor in Special Education in the College of Education at the University of
South Carolina (USC) in Columbia, South Carolina. Prior to joining the USC faculty,
Dr. Yell was a special education teacher in Minnesota for 16 years. He taught in el-
ementary, middle, and secondary classrooms for students with emotional and behav-
ioral disorders (EBD), learning disabilities, mild intellectual disabilities, and autism.
He received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, where he was fortunate to
have Frank Wood and Stan Deno as his professors. Dr. Yell’s professional interests
include evidence-based interventions for children and youth with EBD disabilities,
educationally meaningful and legally correct IEPs, special education law, and progress
monitoring. He has authored more than 100 publications and 4 textbooks. Dr. Yell
lives in Columbia, South Carolina, with his wife, Joy, and sons Nick, Eric, and Alex,
who are students at USC.
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viii About the Authors
Part I Foundations 1
Chapter 1 Introduction to Emotional and Behavioral Disorders 3
Chapter 2 Legal Issues in Educating Students with Emotional and
Behavioral Disorders 23
Chapter 3 Assessment of Students with Emotional and Behavioral
Disorders 55
Chapter 4 Applied Behavior Analysis 73
Chapter 5 Functional Behavioral Assessments, Behavior Intervention
Plans, and the Collection of Data on Student Progress 103
Chapter 6 Cognitive Behavioral Interventions 133
Chapter 7 Social Skills Instruction 165
Chapter 8 Developing Educationally Meaningful and Legally Sound
Individualized Education Programs 187
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Contents
Preface xxi
Part I Foundations 1
Juvenile Justice 18
Mental Health 20
Chapter Summary 22
Our purpose in this textbook is to help readers become effective teachers of students
with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD). Effective teachers assess, plan, orga-
nize, and deliver individualized academic and behavior programming, and they collect
data on actual student performance to inform instructional decisions. This textbook
presents, describes, and gives examples of evidence-based educational practices that
are effective for teaching students with EBD.
We have organized the text in the following manner. In the first section, we
provide the foundation for the field of EBD and cover characteristics of students
with these disorders, discussing assessment, law, applied behavior analysis, positive
behavior support, cognitive behavioral interventions, and social skills training. In the
second section, we expand on evidence-based classroom and behavior management
strategies and procedures that teachers use to (a) prevent the occurrence of problem
behavior, (b) intervene with students who exhibit problem behavior by teaching al-
ternative and replacement behavior, and (c) respond to problem behavior when it
occurs. In the third section, we address academic interventions for students with EBD.
To do this, we review the principles of effective instruction; examine the research on
teaching reading, writing, mathematics, and study skills; and emphasize the impor-
tance of planning instruction and collecting data to monitor student progress.
Our major goal in this textbook is communicating to teachers and teacher trainers
that it is their professional obligation to rely on evidence-based educational practices for
teaching students with EBD. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement
Act requires that educators use practices and procedures supported by research.
Moreover, if teachers are to improve the quality of the lives of the students with whom
they work, they are ethically obligated to base instruction on this body of evidence.
Acknowledgments
We are grateful to many people who were so helpful during the completion of this
project. We thank Steve Dragin, our current editor, for his great patience and insight.
We also thank our first editor, Ann Davis, who provided direction and encouragement
from the inception of this textbook. Thanks also to Annette Joseph, our production
manager, and Cindy Miller for their persistence and good cheer. Thanks also to the
reviewers of the first and second editions who helped improve this textbook: Lisa
Bloom, Western Carolina University; Amelia E. Blyden, The College of New Jersey;
Lisa R. Churchill, California State University–Chico; Greg Conderman, Northern Illinois
University; Sharon Cramer, Buffalo State College; Shelley Neilsen Gatti, University of
St. Thomas; Elizabeth Deane Heins, Stetson University; Coleen Klein-Ezell, University
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