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

Books and Chapters

• Addressing Barriers to Learning: In the Classroom and Schoolwide . Available at this time as a free resource
• Enlisting Appropriate Parental Cooperation and Involvement in Children's Mental Health Treatment
• Student Engagement and Disengagement: An Intrinsic Motivation Perspective and a Mental Health Concern

Continuing Education

• Personalizing Learning and Addressing Barriers to Learning: Two Continuing Education Units

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.

Policy Notes

• About Policy and Practice Trends for Reducing Truancy

Practice Notes and Information Resources

• About Motivation
• About School Adjustment
• About School Engagement and Re-Engagement
• Addressing School Adjustment Problems
• Developing Systems at a School for Problem Identification, Triage, Referral, and Management of Care
• Interviewing and Monitoring Tools
• Natural Opportunities to Promote Social-Emotional Learning and MH
• School Attendance: Focusing on Engagement and Re-engagement
• Supporting Students Experiencing Adjustment Problems as School Starts
• Welcoming Strategies for Newly Arrived Students and Their Families
• Working with Disengaged Students

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

• Cognitive-behavioral Treatment of School Phobia
• Family Therapy for Child and Adolescent School Refusal
• School Refusal in Children and Adolescents: A Review of the Past 10 Years
• The Association Between Child and Adolescent Emotional Disorder and Poor Attendance at School: A Systematic Review Protocol
• The Relationship Between Bullying Vicitmization and School Avoidance: An Examination of Direct Associations, Protective Influences, and Aggravating Factors
• Understanding School Refusal

• Anxiety Disorders Association of America
• Mental Health/Help Net (MHN)
• National Institute of Mental Health
• The Anxiety Network International
• School Avoidance Alliance

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