Coping with Seven Disruptive Personality Types in the Classroom

Difficult Personalities Challenge Teaching

Explosive. Anti-social. Passive-aggressive.

Students with these and other types of troublesome personalities can quickly undermine a class and spoil the learning experience for everyone involved.

What’s more, these students can put others at risk with behaviors that in extreme cases can even result in fatalities, as evidenced by the tragic shootings at Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois universities.

Recognizing troublesome personality styles and knowing how to respond to them—you can get crucial insights on these and related topics during this seminar.

Dr. Gerald Amada will give you principles, guidelines and strategies so you can identify different disruptive personality styles and teach these students more effectively.

You will gain an in-depth understanding of the seven disruptive difficult personality styles, including:

Compulsive personality - characterized by being perfectionistic and expecting perfection and flawlessness from instructors and themselves.
Explosive personality style - characterized by attributes that include abusive epithets, bullying, and physical or verbal threats.
Anti-social personality style - usually characterized by behaviors that include cheating, stealing, forging or defrauding academic documents, contempt for the rights of others, and menacing and dangerous behavior toward others.

This 90 minute, insightful, content-rich seminar will enable you to:

Identify “red flag” signals that indicate possible physical risk when dealing with frightening anti-social students.
Better manage passive-aggressive behavioral styles such as sleeping in class, lateness and procrastination.
Set standards, expectations and boundaries flexibly with students related to their personality styles.
Understand essential principles for collaborating with on-campus resources to resolve disruptive crises.
Understand when or whether to report incidents of disruption.

Who will benefit:

Administrators
Department Chairs
Instructors
Security Personnel
Judicial Affairs Officers
Counselors

Dr. Amada is a co-founder of the Mental Health Program at the City College of San Francisco, and he has presented on the subject of the disruptive college student for more than 20 years at more than 100 colleges and universities throughout the United States and Canada. He has published nine books and more than 80 articles and book reviews on mental health, psychotherapy and disruptive college student issues. He received B.A. and M.S.W. degrees at Rutgers University and a Ph.D. in social and clinical psychology at the Wright Institute in Berkeley, Calif.

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