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Behaviour can be regarded as any action of an organism that changes its relationship to its environment. Human behavior is believed to be influenced by the endocrine system and the nervous system. Objectives are to assess the knowledge regarding selective adolescent behavioural problems & its management to assess the effectiveness of self-instructional module on knowledge regarding selective adolescent behavioural problems & its management among school teachers and to find out the association between pre-test knowledge score with selected demographic variables. A Pre-experimental research design with 40 samples selected by convenient sampling technique were used, Data collection was done by self-structured questionnaire regarding adolescents� behavioural problem the overall result shows that in pre test 55% of the respondents had inadequate knowledge (45%) of the respondents had moderate knowledge and none of respondents had adequate knowledge and in post test (90%)of the respondents had moderate knowledge ,(10%) of the respondents had adequate knowledge and none of respondents having inadequate knowledge. The mean of pre test knowledge was 10 and standard deviation was 2.766. The post mean score was 17.47 and standard deviation was 2. Conclusion of the study from the finding that Self- Instructional Modules has found to be effective in significance gain in the knowledge among school teachers reading adolescents behavioural problems and its management.