behavioural problem

collocation in English

meaningsofbehaviouralandproblem

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behavioural
adjective
uk
/bɪˈheɪ.vjə.rəl/
us
/bɪˈheɪ.vjɚ.əl/
relating ...
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problem
noun[C]
uk
/ˈprɒb.ləm/
us
/ˈprɑː.bləm/
a situation, person, or thing that needs attention and needs to be dealt with ...
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(Definition ofbehaviouralandproblemfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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And above all, juvenile delinquency was seen as being as much an environmental as abehaviouralproblem.
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In 1978, 9 per cent of people on incapacity benefit claimed it because of a mental health orbehaviouralproblem.
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We know that the earlier abehaviouralproblemmanifests itself, the more serious it will become and the more expensive it will be to remedy.
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That is the firstbehaviouralproblemthat one can get, out of frustration.
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The behaviour of children suffering from a condition such as autism may be misinterpreted as abehaviouralproblem.
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Presumably the whole understanding of the legislation is that people who could be identified as having such abehaviouralproblemwould not be subject to release into the community.
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It was believed that she suffered from abehaviouralproblem, and a psychiatrist told me that the criminal justice system was the only route for her to follow.
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The pupil who follows the more common pattern—that is the second of those two options—will often be treated as having first and foremost abehaviouralproblem.
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They had been portrayed as students who demonstrated behavioural problems in their music classrooms, displaying neither creative nor general music ability.
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In addition, they had no speech, language, academic, physical, or behavioural problems as judged by the teachers and reported in the teachers' questionnaires.
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Lastly, the children had no physical, social, or behavioural problems as reported by the teacher in the teacher's questionnaire.
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We identified a measure of premorbid vulnerability based on previous consultation with a doctor or psychologist for distress or behavioural problems.
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None of the children had hearing, developmental or behavioural problems.
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Visual agnosia leads to a variety of severe behavioural problems.
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Our measures of adolescent characteristics relied on teacher ratings of emotional and behavioural problems in the teens.
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It is not clear, for example, from the work presented whether combinations of literacy and language difficulties make a child more vulnerable to behavioural problems.
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Each series of analyses highlighted significant effects of adolescent emotional or behavioural problems.
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Many of them also had behavioural problems making these tasks harder.
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Do you think this particular child has any behavioural problems?
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