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