How To Prevent Aggressive Behavior. This article reviews what teachers can do to prevent aggressive behavior in students with emotional and behavioral disorders. It also reflects on the correlation between student s aggression and its direct relation to teacher behavior. Summary This article begins by first helping you to understand the dynamics of aggressive behavior.
Aggressive behavior is learned and maintained in a similar manner to other behaviors.
Staff attitudes and behavior may be the most important factor affecting aggressive behavior. Another important factor in understanding aggressive behavior is the role of frustration. Frustration does not always result in aggression, but it is always an antecedent of aggression. Students with emotional and behavioral disorders are more likely than other students to engage in aggression due to deficits in cognitive and social skills. These students also show deficits in social skills, which results in poor impulse control, low frustration tolerance, limited ability to generate alternative responses to stress, and limited insight into the feelings of themselves and others.