ABSTRACT

This chapter focuses on difficulties experienced by children and young people who demonstrate features of emotional and behavioural difficulties (EBD). Special attention will be given to young people’s behaviour experienced by teachers and others as extremely challenging, including attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD), physical violence and bullying, and withdrawn behaviour associated with trauma such as bereavement and emotional deprivation. The aim will be to illustrate

• what research tells us about these difficulties: causal factors and common indicators,

• the relationship between the experience of social and emotional difficulties and learning,

• ways that the barriers to learning experienced by young people with these difficulties can be addressed in school and elsewhere.