Confrontational/Defensive

The student may:

• Lash out verbally at others

• Withdraw (emotionally or physically)

• Challenge the authority of the adult

• Refuse to comply with adult requests

• Refuse to follow classroom routines

• Project blame onto others

• Denies the obvious

• Unable to admit a mistake

• Poor judgment

• Touchy and overly sensitive

• Impulsively reactive

• Minimize others and issues

• Have a strong sense of injustice and being wronged

• Easily provoked, irritate, and upset

YES

NO