School phobia.

Abstract

years psychiatrists have recognized that there is a type of emotional dissence from school. This is a deep-seated psychoneurotic disorder fairly sharply differentiated from the more frequent and common delinquent variety of school truancy. The syndrome, often referred to as "school phobia," is recognizable by the in ense terror associated with being a t school. The child may be absent for Broadwin, Isra T. A Conhidwion to the Study d Truancy. Au. J. OUTHOPSYCHIATUY, 11.3.1932.Fo" turbance in children, associated with great anxiety, that leads to serious ab-per1 -d s of weeks or months or years, unless treatment is instituted. The children,

Combined Therapies in a Family Group

“…The evidence for this is seen in the similar family constellation and modes of handling anxiety from one generation to the next. Although school refusal may be associated with other psychopathology (3,9,10), the outstanding feature is the separation anxiety (19,28,30,50). If it is universal, as according to Bowlby (7) it prompts the question, why it has become so pathogenic in this instance.…”

Separation Anxiety in Children and Adolescents

“…Terms such as separation anxiety and school phobia are often used interchangeably with school refusal. Johnson et al (1941) coining the term "school phobia", defined it as an anxious fear of school caused by the child's and mother's separation anxieties (Johnson et al, 1941;Kearney & Silverman,1996). Such definitions include the youths who are completely absent from school, who initially attend school but then leave during the school day, who go to school after having behavioural problems such as morning tantrums or psychosomatic complaints, and who display marked distress on school days and plead with their caregivers to allow them to remain home from school.…”

Treatment of a Case of School Phobia by Reciprocal Inhibition

“…In 1941, Adelaide Johnson et al (3), in discussing school phobia, delineated the concept of separation anxiety between the child and his mother -and in inter vening years this concept has generally become accepted as the basis for most cases of school phobia. Rodriguez et al (4) describe the symptom thus: "School phobia may be defined phenomenologically as partial or total inability to go to school that, on the surface, seems to result from dread of some aspect of the school situation.…”