The usefulness of theoretical perspectives for providing special education services Emotional and behaviour disorders represent significant behaviour excesses or deficits. ... Identifying and understanding the special learning needs of a student who has such a disorder plays a critical part in designing an appropriate educational program for that student and in providing needed emotional and behavioral supports Theoretical Perspectives It is astonishing as to how many theoretical explanations there are for the development of behaviour disorders. ... The six different theoretical pers...

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Cathy-Lee Markena Langlais Sociology Dr.Morales October 15, 2003 Linda Howard: In Light of Freud's Theory Linda Howard, a nineteen year old high school senior, has overcome many obstacles resulting from her biracial ethnicity, and has graduated as the valedictorian of her senior class. After reading and discussing her case study, my group and I came to the conclusion that we are better able to understand Linda, in the sociological perspective, by incorporating Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory. ...

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Personality is not completely consistent nor entirely at the mercy of the environment and change. It is a mixture of both. Exactly what aspects of personality are consistent over time is impossible to answer. However, many theories have attempted to explain why personality is consistent and how it c...

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Comprehensive approach to the study of human psychology normal or abnormal must have different perspectives in an effort to better explain the complex phenomena. ... Psychosocial interpretations of abnormal behavior, dealing with human psychology rather than biology, necessarily are more varied than the biological perspective. Sigmund Freud developed a theory of psychopathology that emphasized the inner dynamics of unconscious motives called the psychoanalytic perspective. ... In short, the psychoanalytic perspective holds that about the best we can hope for is a compromise among our warring...

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