Broadening the Cultural-Organizational Perspective in Exclusion of Youth with Social Maladjustment

Tbis article reviews the problem of exclusion from special education of children or youth with social maladjustmerit, but expands the conceptualization by placing it in the context of the historical need to limit services to cbildren or youth with emotional or behavioral disorders and the current underidentification of such pupils. Definitional issues that tend to confuse the debate, at both the microand macroperspective level, are also considered.