Fundamentals of EBD

Fundamentals of EBD
Historical Foundations:
Servicing adolescents with EBD has changed significantly since the 1700’s when exorcisms and corporal punishment were the normally prescribed solutions. There were, however, medical and psychiatric pioneers that began developing more philanthropic methods of assessing and educating those with socially non-acceptable behavioral and emotional characteristics.
“Moral treatment”, an approach influenced by Phillipe Pinel, emphasized treating those labeled as “deranged” and “regressed” with dignity and kindness to elicit improvement in behavior. Those that followed and developed Pinel’s revolutionary methods of behavioral and emotional interventions, such as Jean Marc Gaspard Itard and Benjamin Rush laid the framework for contemporary educational practices for students with EBD. Dr. Rush’s philosophy clearly encouraged respectful, loving relationships between adult and child. He even hinted at legislative action to ...