TOPIC: School Avoidance

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Center Developed Documents, Resources and Tools

Articles

L. Taylor & H.S. Adelman (1999). Personalizing Classroom Instruction to Account for Motivational and Developmental Differences. Reading & Writing Quarterly, 15 (4), 255-276.

Guidebook

• Common Psychosocial Problems of School Aged Youth: Developmental Variations, Problems, Disorders and Perspectives for Prevention and Treatment

    Note: Section III of this packet, entitled Frequently Identified Psychosocial
    Problems provides information regarding Anxiety Problems.

Introductory Packet

• Anxiety, Fears, Phobias, and Related Problems: Intervention and Resources for School-Aged Youth
• Transitions: Turning Risks into Opportunities for Student Support

Newletters

• Featured Newsletter article (Fall, '97), Easing the Impact of Student Mobility: Welcoming & Social Support.

Other

• School Avoidance Behavior: Motivational Bases and Implications for Interventions

• School Refusal/Avoidance Phobia: A Handout for Parents
• School Avoidance: What Parents Can Do
• School Refusal in Children and Adolescents: A Review of the Past 10 Years
• Treatment of School Refusal: One-Year Follow-up
• Cognitive-behavioral Treatment of School Phobia
• School Phobia/School Refusal
• Children Who Won't Go to School
• Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents
• The Anxious Child
• Coping with Fears and Stress
• Communication Apprehension: The Quiet Student in your Classroom
• Treating Anxiety Disorders in Youth: Current Problems and Future Solutions (Monographs from the Conference on Treating Anxiety Disorders in Youth)

• NIMH Report on Anxiety Disorders
• Decade of the Brain: Anxiety Disorders
• Fact Sheet on the Descriptions, Symptoms, and Diagnosis of Anxiety Disorders
• Helping Children Cope with Fears and Stress
• Practice Parameters for the Assessment and Treatment of Children and Adolescents with Anxiety Disorders
• A Guide to Managing Stress
• What You Should Know about Stress and Your Child

• Anxiety Disorders Association of America
• The Ross Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders, Inc.
• Center for Anxiety and Stress Treatment
• Mental Health/Help Net (MHN)
• National Institute of Mental Health
• The Anxiety Network International

• A function-based treatment for school refusal behavior using shaping and fading. Meyer, Eugene A.; Hagopian, Louis P.; Paclawskyj, Theodosia R. Research in Developmental Disabilities. Elsevier Science Inc./Pergamon: US, 1999 Nov-Dec. 20 (6): p. 401-410.
• Academic underachievement and school refusal.  Sikorski, John B. In: Ralph J. DiClemente, Ed; William Bunker Hansen, Ed; et al. Handbook of adolescent health risk behavior.. Plenum Press: New York, NY, US, 1996. p. 393-411 of xxiii, 440pp. Series title: Issues in clinical child psychology.
Intended Audience: Psychology: Professional & Research Language: English.
• Cheating and achievement-avoidance at school: Components and assessment. Rost, Detlef H.; Wild, Klaus Peter. British Journal of Educational Psychology. British Psychological Society: England, 1994 Feb. 64 (1): p. 119-132.
• Functional school refusal subtypes: Anxiety, avoidance, and malingering. Evans, Larry D. Psychology in the Schools. John Wiley & Sons Inc: US, 2000 Mar. 37 (2): p. 183-191.
• Parent training in the treatment of school refusal behavior.  Kearney, Christopher A.; Roblek, Tami L. In: James M. Briesmeister, Ed; Charles E. Schaefer, Ed. Handbook of parent training: Parents as co-therapists for children's behavior problems (2nd ed.).. John Wiley & Sons, Inc: New York,
NY, US, 1998. p. 225-256 of xiv, 594pp.
• Research on the cognitive-behavioral treatment of school refusal: A review andrecommendations. King, Neville; Tonge, Bruce J.; Heyne, David; Ollendick, Thomas H. Clinical Psychology Review. Elsevier Science Inc/Pergamon: US, 2000 Jun. 20 (4): p. 495-507.
• School refusal: A changing problem which requires a change of approach? Place, Maurice; Hulsmeier, Jessica; Davis, Sue; Taylor, Eizabeth. Clinical Child Psychology & Psychiatry. Sage Publications Ltd: England, 2000 Jul. 5 (3): p. 345-355.
• School refusal and emotional lability in a 6-year-old boy. Stein, Martin T.; Duffner, Patricia K.; Werry, John S.; Truner, Doris A. Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins: US, 2001 Apr. 22 (2Suppl): p. S29-S32.
• School refusal behavior: Classification, assessment, and treatment issues. Lee, Marcella I.; Miltenberger, Raymond G. Education & Treatment of Children. Family Services of Western Pennsylvania: US, 1996 Nov. 19 (4): p. 474-486.
• School refusal behavior in youth:  A functional approach to assessment and treatment. Kearney, Christopher A. American Psychological Association: Washington, DC, US, 2001. xiii, 265pp.
• School refusal behavior: Prevalence, characteristics, and the schools' response. Stickney, Marcella I.; Miltenberger, Raymond G. Education & Treatment of Children. Family Services of Western Pennsylvania: US, 1998 May. 21 (2): p. 160-170.
• School refusal: Family constellation and family functioning. Bernstein, Gail A.; Borchardt, Carrie M. Journal of Anxiety Disorders. Elsevier Science Inc: US, 1996 Jan-Feb. 10 (1): p. 1-19.
• School refusal: Issues of conceptualisation, assessment, and treatment. Elliott, Julian G. Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry & Allied Disciplines. Cambridge Univ Press: US, 1999 Oct. 40 (7): p. 1001-1012.
• School truants and truancy motivation sorted out with multidimensional scaling. Bimler, David; Kirkland, John. Journal of Adolescent Research. Sage Publications Inc: US, 2001 Jan. 16 (1): p. 75-102.
• Systemic and clinical strategies for preventing school refusal behavior in youth.Kearney, Christopher A.; Hugelshofer, Daniela S. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy. Springer Publishing Co: US, 2000 Spr. 14 (1): p. 51-65.
• The relationship between school avoidance and therapists' interventions: How can we shape students' attendance behavior? Kobayashi, Masayuki; Tanaka, Yoko; Kamimura, Eiichi. Japanese Journal of Counseling Science. The Japanese Assn of Counseling Science: Japan, 1995 Oct. 28 (2): p. 131-142.
• Using brief strategic intervention to reduce the school avoidance behavior of seventh graders. Schopen, E. Ann. Professional School Counseling. American School Counselor Association: US, 1997 Dec. 1 (2): p. 52-54.

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