What is social Mal

Adjustment?
Symptoms
• Truancy
SOCIAL MAL
social
maladjustment is
•
•
Struggle with authority
Poor academic
“Social maladjustment is ADJUSTMENT
motivation an educational concept”
viewed as a By Latriece Platt
•
persistent pattern Substance abuse

of violating societal • Manipulative behavior

norms

Causes
*lack of positive family
interaction,
*school failure and social
rejection,
* membership in a deviant
peer group
*death of a grandparent or
family member, a new child,
and a move to a new home.

Social patterns / Behaviors

• Tends to have difficulty in
establishing or maintaining
group membership
• Is generally anxious, fearful,
mood swings from depression
to high activity; frequently has
inappropriate affect or may
react to situations with
inappropriate affect.
• Frequently avoids school
achievement, even in areas of
competence.
 EI SM
• Seen as unable to • Seen as unwilling to
comply; inconsistent comply; generally low
achievement; expects achievement; excessive
help or has difficulty absences; rejects help,
asking for help. callous disregard for
rights/needs of others
• Often is characterized by
a pervasively poor self- • Often shows ego
concept; often overly strength in school
dependent or impulsively situations. Tends to be
defiant; independent and
appears self-assured;
generally, reacts toward
situations with
appropriate affect but
lacks appropriate guilt
Websites
1.https://www.cde.state.co.us
/cdesped/topicbrief_sed_soci
almaladjustment
2.
https://www.michigan.gov/
documents/mde/EligibilityS
ocialMaladjustment_694151
_7.pdf
3.
https://advancedprograming
forstudentswithebd.files.wor
dpress.com/2017/01/social_
maladjustment-1.pdf
Is SM the same as EI?
SM is not classified as an official
emotional impairment. "with social
maladjustment tend to view themselves as
normal, and are capable of behaving
appropriately and following school/social
norms. However, the distinguishing feature of
social maladjustment is one of volition; in
other words, these students consciously
choose to break rules and violate norms.”
“They are not to be considered eligible
under the law for the purposes of
special education unless it is determined
that there are some aspects of emotional
impairment separate from the social
maladjustment.”
Accommodations/
modifications
*work study,
*adjusted school hours,
*vocational programming,
*shortened academic periods
*alternative school
placement.
 LITERATURE/TEXT
* Wayne County Regional
Educational Service Agency
(2004). Social
Maladjustment: A Guide to
Differential Diagnosis and
Educational Options.
*Kauffman, J.M. (2004). How
we prevent the prevention of
emotional and behavioral
difficulties in education. In P.
Garneer, F. Yuen, P. Clough, &
T. Pardeck (Eds.), Handbook
of emotional and behavioral
difficulties in education.
London: Sage
*Kauffman, J.M. (2003).
Appearances, stigma, and
prevention. Remedial and
Special Education, 24, 195–
198.
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