Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorder (EBD) display various characteristics relevant to the identified diagnosis. The main characteristic of students with EBD is that problem behaviors are displayed at school, at home, in the community, and in other social contexts. These problem behaviors are professionally described as externalizing and internalizing behaviors that students with EBD often engage in regularly. Externalizing behaviors are described as aggressive and/or destructive behaviors that are observable as behaviors directed toward others. Internalizing behaviors are behaviors interpreted as acting out behaviors such as anxiety, fear, withdrawal, and other indications of an individual's mood or internal condition. The purpose of this article is to compare and contrast the characteristics associated with internalized and externalized behaviors. The externalizing and internalizing behaviors of students with EBD present numerous comparisons, starting with the visualization of both dimensions in individual students. Many students may exhibit behavioral characteristics of both an externalized and internalized nature as neither is exclusive to the problematic behaviors exhibited by those suffering from the condition. Comorbidity is not uncommon in students with EBD as a student may exhibit multiple behaviors associated with internalizing problems, such as poor attention span or a lack of concentration, and those associated with externalizing problems such as physical and verbal disputes; rarely does an individual student with EBD exhibit only one type of maladaptive behavior. Students may exhibit behavioral characteristics with varying degrees of severity or intensity, which may be externalized or internalized behaviors...... middle of paper ......Practical Social-Emotional Learning Tools for Students with Specific Learning Disabilities in the United States of America. The Journal of the International Association of Special Education, 10(1), 21-26.Hallahan, D.P., Kauffman, J.M., & Pullen, P.C. (2009). Students with emotional or behavioral disorders. In V. Lanigan, A. Reilly, & G. Erb (Eds.), Exceptional students: An introduction to special education (pp. 264-297). Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon. Kauffman, J. M., & Landrum, T. J. (2013). Attention and activity disorders and conduct disorder. In S. D. Dragin & M. B. Finch (Eds.), Characteristics of emotional and behavioral disorders in children and youth (pp. 180–270). Upper Saddle River, NJ:Pearson.Sabornie, E.J., Evans, C., & Cullinan, D. (2006). Comparison of characteristics of high-incidence disability groups. Remedial and special education, 27(2), 95-104.