Wouldn't it be better and less costly to help schools to find ways to minimize the environmental factors leading to school refusal?

Other changes, such as an increase in filial violence and school refusal, suggest a breakdown of strong family authority.

There's even a name for it: school refusal.

However, children with school refusal may have conditions other than SAD.

School refusal was a common reason for pupils being placed here, and many had psychological and behavioural problems.

School refusal can also occur after a stressful event, such as moving to a new house, or the death of a pet or relative.

Additionally, children with school refusal may have crying spells or throw temper tantrums.

Children's Hospital Boston provides a chart showing the difference between the school refusal and truancy.

School refusal is the refusal to attend school due to emotional distress.

Research in the last few years has indicated that school phobia, or "school refusal" as some experts call it, covers a variety of psychological problems.

It is estimated that nearly 75% of children with SAD exhibit some form of school refusal behavior.

Symptoms of school refusal include the child saying they feel sick often, or waking up with a headache, stomachache, or sore throat.

Bullying, often perpetrated by young teens who are unsure of themselves, is one of the most common causes of this problem, called school refusal behavior.

Risking the Consequences Studies have shown that failing to deal with school refusal behavior can have serious consequences.

Pharmacological treatment is used in extreme cases of SAD when non-pharmacological treatments fail, typically for school refusal.

A medical condition often mistaken for school refusal is delayed sleep phase syndrome (DSPS).

There are, perhaps, three categories of what a teacher might call 'truancy': simple non-attendance, parentally condoned absence, and school refusal/phobia.

The rate of "school refusal" (kids who skip school for one month or more a year, which is sometimes a precursor to hikikomori) has doubled since 1990.

In Canada, these young people present as "school refusal" and receive diagnoses as varied as agoraphobia, social phobia, major depression and avoidant or schizoid personality disorder.

Given these facts, I found it surprising that you glossed over the social conditions related to school refusal and focused instead on psychotropic and psychotherapeutic treatments for the victim.

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Whereas some cases of school refusal can be resolved by gradual re-introduction to the school environment, some others may need to be treated with some form of psychodynamic or cognitive-behaviour therapy.

Since the 1980s, the problem shifted from violence against people and property to ijime (bullying by peers) to drive a victim into School refusal, Hikikomori (acute social withdrawal) and in the worst case, suicide.

Psychologists and psychiatrists who study and treat school refusal and school phobia agree that parents who recognize the early warning signs and take reasonable but firm steps to counter them can usually head off a major crisis.

However, none of the present DSM diagnoses can account for the full scope of symptoms seen in PRS, and refusal to eat, weight loss, social withdrawal, school refusal can be considered as the main distinctive features.

Half the children seen in her clinic suffer from school phobia.

Behavior problems such as school phobia or a conduct disorder.

The outcome of school phobia: a follow up study.

"I see a lot of school phobias," she said.

School phobia is diagnosed primarily through questionnaires and interviews with doctors.

Some of the side effects associated with these medications are insomnia, weight gain, and school phobia.

Unlike school phobia, these more common concerns are quite rational, and parents can deal with them by speaking with teachers.

School phobia is the rarest form of school anxiety.

They are suffering from school phobia.

The boy was suffering from a severe case of school phobia, a widely misunderstood problem that affects up to 3 percent of children.

In extreme cases they develop a real school phobia, for reasons ranging from bullying by classmates to schoolwork anxiety.

Eisenberg L. School phobia: a study in the communication of anxiety.

He was diagnosed originally as having a school phobia, but it was an underlying obsessional state."

Research in the last few years has indicated that school phobia, or "school refusal" as some experts call it, covers a variety of psychological problems.

A common anxiety disorder in children is school phobia, which in some cases can be a type of separation anxiety.

School phobia may also be a form of social phobia, also known as social anxiety.

All students are accepted, including those with neurological disorders, school phobia, attention deficit disorder, mild autism, or various learning disabilities.

They develop a 'school phobia,' and show it by being inattentive in class and not doing their school work.

Eisenberg L. Diagnosis, genesis, and clinical management of school phobia.

Obsessive-compulsive neurosis is often related to school phobias or problems and can be mislabled as a learning disability.

With the first child, parents look up "school phobia" in Dr. Spock and examine the stress level in the home.

Mr. Hickey is struck by the number of domineering grandmothers he finds in cases of school phobia.

School phobias and separation anxiety are also seen in this age group, and may well require counseling and therapy from someone beyond the general pediatrician.

At least 5 percent of elementary school children and about 2 percent of high school students suffer from school phobia.

I told the teachers to contact the parents and prepare them for possible appetite loss, sleep problems, psychosomatic stuff, clinginess, some school phobia.