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Disruptive Behaviors defined and Types of Disruptive Behaviors

Defined:
1. Disruptive behaviors are any behavior that significantly interrupts the routine of the acting individual or those in the immediate surroundings (e.g., physical aggression, off task behavior).
2. In disruptive behaviors the person’s distress is focused outward and directly affects other people.

Types:
1. Argumentative/defiant behavior; vindictiveness
2. Aggression towards others; destruction of property (deliberate fire setting, vandalization).
3. Deceitfulness or theft
4. Serious violation of the rules
5. Impulsive and anger based
6. Threatening
7. Characterized by repeated acts of aggression toward others and often accompanied by little or no regard for the effects of such behavior on others.
8. A pattern of unruly, defiant, or aggressive actions that significantly interfere with daily functioning and social interactions.
9. Pattern of uncooperative or defiant behavior

Defusing disruptive behaviors
1. Off -task behavior – cooperation and on-task behavior
2. Rule violation – regulations, routines, and expectations
3. Disrespectful behavior – respectful behaviors
4. Agitation (angry, upset, on edge frustrated, anxious)
5. Noncompliance and limit testing (refusal to cooperate)

DSM 5 – Disruptive Behavior Disorders
1. A group of disorders involving difficulties with self-control, impulses, and aggressive behaviors
2. Types
a. Oppositional defiant disorder
i. Angry, irritable mood
ii. Argumentative/defiant behavior
iii. Vindictiveness
b. Conduct disorder
i. Aggression to people and animals
ii. Destruction of property
iii. Deceitfulness or theft
iv. Serious violation of rules
c. Intermittent explosive disorder
i. Verbal aggression like temper tantrums, tirades, arguments, fights; or physical aggression toward people, animals, or property
d. Also
i. Pyromania
ii. Kleptomania
iii. Antisocial personality disorder

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