did not disclose any financial relationships relevant to this article.Objectives After completing this article, readers should be able to:1. Describe the relationship of separation anxiety to school phobia or school refusal. 2. Explain the developmental appropriateness of separation anxiety in the preschool child and during the first months of school. 3. Discuss the family dynamics of separation anxiety disorder. 4. Distinguish between separation anxiety disorder and truancy as a cause of school absence. 5. Describe the etiologic role of the parent (often the mother) in separation anxiety disorder. 6. Develop a therapeutic plan for abnormal separation anxiety. Case StudyJC is a 9-year-old boy who lives with his mother and attends the third grade, where he is an A student. During the last 2 weeks, he has refused to go to school and has missed 6 school days. He is awake almost all night worrying about going to school. As the start of the school day approaches, he cries and screams that he cannot go, chews holes in his shirt, pulls his hair, digs at his face, punches the wall, throws himself on the floor, and experiences headaches, stomachaches, and vomiting. If he attends school, he is less anxious until bedtime. As his separation anxiety has increased, he has become gloomy, has stopped reading for fun, and frequently worries about his mother's tachycardia. JC was seen once by a psychiatrist at age 3 years for problems with separation anxiety. He did well in preschool and kindergarten. He was seen at a community mental health center during the first grade for school refusal, but did well again during the second grade. In addition to having recurrent symptoms of separation anxiety disorder, he is phobic of dogs, avoids speaking and writing in public, and has symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder. His mother has a history of panic disorder.

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This student pharmacist-led telephone medication reconciliation service demonstrated the importance of medication reconciliation in ambulatory psychiatry by identifying numerous discrepancies within this population. Further, we demonstrated pharmacy students across various levels of education can assist in this process under the supervision of a pharmacist.