Although many children and teens are occasionally disruptive, few display negative behaviors that cause serious problems in school. However, some students behaviors result in significant problems for themselves, their peers, their teachers, their parents and sometimes with the law enforcers. EBD include:

• Mood disorders: Children and teens with mood disorders tend to have depression, persistent depressive disorder, disruptive mood dysregulaiton disorder, substance induced mood disorder, bipolar I and bipolar II disorders, and other mood disorders.
• Anxiety disordersAnxiety disorder causes someone to overreact when he/ she face some triggers of his/her emotions.Anxiety disorders include generalized anxiety disorder. (GAD), Social anxiety disorder., Separation anxiety disorder., Panic disorder, specific Phobias, Agoraphobia, Selective Mutism
• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder(OCD): Children with OCD have a mental illness that causes them to repeat unwanted thoughts (obsessions) or you feel like doing something over and over again (unwanted behavior - compulsions).
• Trauma and Stressor Disorders: they are a part of emotional and behavioral problems that affect children and adolescents. Trauma and Stressor Disorders include: acute stress disorder (ASD) , adjustment disorders reactive attachment Disorder (RAD), disinhibited social engagement disorder (DSED) and unclassified and unspecified disorder
• Eating Disorders: Children with eating disorder are worried about being overweight whereas they have normal weight, or are mostly concerned about their body shape.
• Disruptive, Impulse Control and Conduct Disorders: Children and teens with these disorders violate the rights of others, conflict with societal norms and break the law. They are unable to control their aggressive behaviors, self- control and impulses. Fighting, destroying property, defiance, stealing, lying, and rule breaking are common signs among people with these disorders.
• Substance and Addictive Disorders: Drug addiction, also called substance use disorder, is a mental health problem that affects a person's brain and behavior and causes people to lose control the use of a legal or illegal drug or medicine. Common substances include alcohol, tobacco, opioids, stimulants, cannabis and nicotine. Students who use substances end up having poor academic and social problems.
• Personality Disorders: Children and teens who suffer from a personality disorder face challenges of maintaining healthy relationships with others and they often blame others over the problems they have created.