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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"school refusal"”.
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School refusal : clinical characteristics, treatment and outcome
… methods of treatment and outcome in School Refusal have been investigated. School refusal/phobia has been reported in the literature not to be a true clinical entity with a uniform aetiology, psychopathology, course, prognosis and treatment, but rather a collection of symptoms or a …
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School Refusal: from short stay school to mainstream
School attendance is a high profile issue at both national and local levels, and links have been made between poor attendance and low attainment, poor employment outcomes and antisocial behaviour (Reid 1999, 2002). This small scale research study focuses on a group of young people referred to as …
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Exploring Perspectives of School Refusal in Second-Level Education in Ireland
School refusal can be a major source of chaos and distress for young people and their families, impeding young people’s social, academic and psychological development. International research has highlighted the short- and long-term consequences of school refusal to include economic hardship, …
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Addressing Student School Refusal Through Effective School, Family And Community-Based Interventions
… study was to examine the factors causing school refusal and in-turn diagnose a school-based intervention designed to retain students. This study specifically addressed the use of a teacher mentor intervention for school refusal students as a means of improving attendance, academics, social …
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Using a Dual-Factor Model to Understand the Mental Health of Students with School Refusal Behavior
<p>Students with school refusal behavior (SRB) often present complex cases that include variations of internalizing (anxiety and depression) and externalizing (opposition and defiance) mental health struggles. Historically, incongruent classification methods and terminology have hindered the …
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A mixed methods feasibility study exploring the impact of introducing mindfulness to adolescents referred for anxiety based school refusal
The term “school refusal” is used to describe a small group of students who do not attend school for underlying emotional reasons. Left unaddressed school refusal can lead to serious problems such as emotional distress, academic decline and isolation from peers. Effective intervention is thus …
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Dancing to the music of your heart: home schooling the school-resistant child. A constructivist account of school refusal
School resistance is usually understood as a pathological behaviour or condition indicative of underlying mental disorder for which therapy is ‘indicated’ and home schooling is ‘contraindicated’. However, I argue that the psychiatric/psychological classifications commonly used to identify school …
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Investigating the factors associated with emotionally-based non-attendance at school from young people’s perspective.
… topic of ‘emotionally-based non-attendance’ at school. Part one of the volume critically reviews the existing research on ‘school refusal’, in terms of conceptualisation, prevalence, and associated risk and protective factors. This review argues that there is a significantly limited amount of …
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Perceptions of Middle School Counselors on Adolescent Anxiety Coping Skills Post-Pandemic in One Suburban School Division
… many challenges when returning to the physical school building and environment after the disruption to our educational systems throughout the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Educational leaders across the U.S. have expressed concerns over the substantially higher levels of anxiety and chronic …
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Understanding the relationship between anxiety, cognitive processing, and school attendance: a developmental perspective
School absenteeism can have serious implications for the individual. Young people who display school refusal behaviour (child-motivated absence that is often underpinned by anxiety) present an ongoing challenge to professionals. Previous research has found an association between anxiety, cognition, …
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An exploration into the parental experience of Emotionally Based School Non Attendance in young people: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis.
School refusal, school phobia, school anxiety and emotionally based school non-attendance are all interchangeable terms used to describe children who experience high levels of distress and anxiety that prevents them from going to school. Emotionally Based School Non Attendance (EBSNA) in young …
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An Exploration of the Experiences of Parents Who Seek to Resolve School Attendance Problems and Barriers
School attendance problems (SAPs) have been framed in terms of ‘truancy’, ‘school phobia’, ‘school refusal’, ‘school withdrawal’ and a range of similar terms. This variation reflects the heterogeneity of both SAPs (Kearney et al., 2019), and the varied backgrounds of practitioners conducting SAPs …
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Afecto positivo y negativo y su relación con variables psicoeducativas
… Test (YLOT) para el optimismo y pesimismo, School Refusal Assessment Scale Revised for Children (SRAS-R-C) para el rechazo escolar, Aggression Questionnaire (AQ) para la agresividad y Child-Adolescent Perfectionism Scale (CAPS) para el perfeccionismo. Respecto a los resultados obtenidos en …
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Stress Management and Health Promotion Behaviours in Young Men in Tertiary Education Settings
… as being a strong correlate of anxiety and school refusal in primary aged children; depression, suicidal ideation and physical malaise in adolescents and poor general health (i.e., colds, headaches, pain and sensitivity, depression, suicidal ideation, cardiac events, stroke etc.) in older …
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Roll Call: A Scoping Review for School Attendance Problems Among Youth
Regular school attendance is central to the psychosocial development of youth. Youth who frequently miss school face adverse consequences, including lower academic achievement, impaired socio-emotional development, mental health difficulties, and increased health risk behaviors. The emergence of …