Parental Etiological Explanations and Disproportionate Racial/Ethnic Representation in Special Education Services for Youths with Emotional Disturbance

Autor/inn/en	Yeh, May; Forness, Steven R.; Ho, Judy; McCabe, Kristen
Titel	Parental Etiological Explanations and Disproportionate Racial/Ethnic Representation in Special Education Services for Youths with Emotional Disturbance
Quelle	In: Behavioral Disorders, 29 (2004) 4, S.348-358 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0198-7429
Schlagwörter	African American Children; Special Education; Pacific Islanders; Behavior Disorders; Asian Americans; Emotional Disturbances; Hispanic Americans; Parent Attitudes; Disproportionate Representation; Racial Differences; High Risk Students; Personality Problems; Identification; Adolescents; Social Problems; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Etiology; Community Services; Child Behavior Checklist + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? African Americans; Child; Children; Afroamerikaner; Kind; Kinder; Special needs education; Sonderpädagogik; Sonderschulwesen; Pacific Rim; Inhabitant; People; Pazifischer Raum; Bewohner; Asian immigrant; United States; Asiatischer Einwanderer; USA; Gefühlsstörung; Hispanic; Hispanoamerikaner; Elternverhalten; Rassenunterschied; Problemschüler; Identifikation; Identifizierung; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Social problem; Soziales Problem; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Ätiologie; Gemeindenahe Versorgung
Abstract	Although there has been long concern about underidentification or misidentification of children with emotional or behavioral disorders in special education, recent attention has also been focused on disproportionate racial and ethnic representation of children in the school category of emotional disturbance (ED). There is evidence that African American children may be overidentified in the ED category while Asian and Hispanic children may be underidentified, although these findings are not consistent from sample to sample. In this study, the authors examined parental beliefs about the causes of their child's problems as a potential partial mediator between race or ethnicity and special education identification for emotional disturbance. The sample of 1,019 children was drawn from a larger study of at-risk youths who were active in at least one of five public sectors of care. In this sample, parental explanatory etiologies relating to personality and relational issues were found to account for part of the racial or ethnic differences in ED service use for Latino and Asian American/Pacific Islander children. (Contains 2 tables.) (Author).
Anmerkungen	Council for Children with Behavioral Disorders. Council for Exceptional Children, 1110 North Glebe Road, Arlington, VA 22201-5704. Tel: 612-276-0140; Fax: 612-276-0142; Web site: http://www.ccbd.net/behavioraldisorders/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10