TOPIC: School Avoidance

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Center Developed Documents, Resources and Tools

Introductory Packet

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

Articles

• Personalizing Classroom Instruction to Account for Motivational and Developmental Differences.
• School Avoidance Behavior: Motivational Bases and Implications for Intervention

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.
• Enhancing School Staff Understanding of MH and Psychosocial Concerns: A Guide

Newletters

• Easing the Impact of Student Mobility: Welcoming & Social Support.

Practice Notes

• Natural Opportunities to Promote Social-Emotional Learning and MH

Guidance Notes

• Addressing School Adjustment Problems
• Engaging and Re-engaging Students in Learning at School

Practice Brief

• Schools as Caring, Learning Communities

Quick Finds

• Anxiety
• Classroom Climate/Culture and School Climate/Culture and Environments that Support Learning

• Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents
• The Anxious Child
• Children Who Won't Go to School
• Cognitive-behavioral Treatment of School Phobia
• Communication Apprehension: The Quiet Student in your Classroom
• Coping with Fears and Stress
• Parenting Corner Q&A: School Avoidance
• School Avoidance and Physical Complaints in Children: Frequently Asked Questions
• School Avoidance: What Parents Can Do
• School Connectedness: Strategies for Increasing Protective Factors Among Youth
• School Phobia/School Refusal
• School Refusal/Avoidance Phobia: A Handout for Parents
• School Refusal in Children and Adolescents: A Review of the Past 10 Years
• Treating Anxiety Disorders in Youth: Current Problems and Future Solutions
• Treatment of School Refusal: One-Year Follow-up
• Understanding School Refusal

• 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

• 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.
• Handbook of Child and Adolescent Anxiety Disorders. By McKay, D. & Storch, E.A. (2011). Springer.
• Research on the cognitive-behavioral treatment of school refusal: A review and recommendations. 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 in youth:  A functional approach to assessment and treatment. Kearney, Christopher A. American Psychological Association: Washington, DC, US, 2001. xiii, 265pp.
• 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.

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