The Histroy of Emotional Disturbance

  • 460 BCE

    Phrentis

    Hippocrates recorded descriptions of abnormal states as Melancholia, Mania(hysteria and Phrentis(Brain Fever)
  • Mar 27, 1500

    Possessions

    illnesses that referred to as melancholia, epilepsy, mania and hysteria, Monks and priests kept records of characteristic of various devils that possessed the weak or impious.
  • Mar 27, 1547

    King Henry VII

    St. Mary of Bethlehem was established as an asylum or madhouse.
  • Plater

    Plater described the devil as the source of all mental illness.
  • John Locke

    Influential in the development of the concept of mental functions,
  • Wilhelm Wundt

    Established the first experimental psychology laboratory and developed experimental methodology
  • Juvenile Psychopathic Institue

    Dr. William Healy pioneered the study of repeat juvenile delinquents.
  • The Disturbed Child

    Book was written which advocated a modified psychoanalytic approach to the instruction of emotional disturbed children
  • CEC

    The council of exceptional children with behavioral disorders was formed
  • P.L. 94-142

    Law with mandated services for children with disabilities.
  • P.L. 94-142 Amended

    Law was amended to included provisions to preschool children.
  • P.L. 94-142 Amended again

    Was amended to mandate greater attention to successful outcomes for children and youth with emotional and behavioral disorders.
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    P.L. 101-476

    IDEA was passed and was important for persons with emotional and behavioral disorders because it specified conditions for removing them from public school for disciplinary reasons without denying them access to alternate educational opportunities.
  • No Child Left Behind

    This was to improve the level of instruction in schools.