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School refusal behaviour is a common and difficult problem facing parents of children and teenagers. It can have severe consequences for a child's academic, social, and psychological well-being. A child's absence from school can also significantly increase family conflict. This parent Workbook is designed to help parents work with a therapist to resolve the child's school refusal behaviour. It outlines four possible treatment procedures that may be prescribed by a therapist, depending on the child's reasons for refusing school. Scientific evidence has shown these programs to be highly effective in treating 5-17 year old children who exhibit school refusal behaviour. Regardless of whether the child refuses to attend school to relieve school-related distress, to avoid negative social situations at school, to receive attention from their family members, or to obtain tangible rewards outside of school, the flexible treatments will help overcome school refusal behaviour. The Workbook describes what can be expected during the child's assessment and treatment and provides answers to questions about the process. It also provides instructions for continuing certain aspects of the program at home, including relaxation and breathing techniques and exposure exercises to decrease anxiety. Instructions are given for completing daily logbooks to track progress, creating a morning routine, and developing written contracts to encourage school attendance.
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Christopher A. Kearney is at University of Nevada. Anne Marie Albano is at Columbia University.
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This book makes it clear that it is to be used by parents to work with a therapist engaged in cognitive-behaviour therapy with the child. It is not a standalone book and although it includes the questionnaire that a therapist would use in assessing the reasons for the child's refusal to go to school, the analysis is not included so you cannot evaluate the answers without a therapist's help.
I was hoping for a book to help me reduce my son's acute anxiety about attending school - this is not that book as it assumes your child is already seeing therapist who is using this method and even working from the parallel therapist's book.But the mistake was mine as I did "look inside" but did not realise its limitations.
Having said that the book has some useful things to say about "school refusal" (ie where children refuse to go to school because of anxiety and become distressed if forced, not where they would just rather be elsewhere). However the programme of therapy sounds exhausting and a full-time job. Also they say it is less likely to work when a child is e.g. also depressed, which must often be the case. The writers have apparently been working in this field since 1993 and describe a number of "subgroups" of school refusers including those avoiding difficult social situations at school and those who are attention-seeking/have separation anxiety. they make distinctions on the basis of the effect, for the child, of not being at school, ie what does it acheive for the child.
If you have been lucky enough to have been allocated a CBT therapist who is using this method then I am sure this book would be useful and supportive as it is not critical of parents and has lots of comments to set off further discussion and thinking. But in my experience it is hard to get counselling let alone therapy. So of limited usefulness to the average parent struggling with this problem.
I was hoping for a book to help me reduce my son's acute anxiety about attending school - this is not that book as it assumes your child is already seeing therapist who is using this method and even working from the parallel therapist's book.But the mistake was mine as I did "look inside" but did not realise its limitations.
Having said that the book has some useful things to say about "school refusal" (ie where children refuse to go to school because of anxiety and become distressed if forced, not where they would just rather be elsewhere). However the programme of therapy sounds exhausting and a full-time job. Also they say it is less likely to work when a child is e.g. also depressed, which must often be the case. The writers have apparently been working in this field since 1993 and describe a number of "subgroups" of school refusers including those avoiding difficult social situations at school and those who are attention-seeking/have separation anxiety. they make distinctions on the basis of the effect, for the child, of not being at school, ie what does it acheive for the child.
If you have been lucky enough to have been allocated a CBT therapist who is using this method then I am sure this book would be useful and supportive as it is not critical of parents and has lots of comments to set off further discussion and thinking. But in my experience it is hard to get counselling let alone therapy. So of limited usefulness to the average parent struggling with this problem.
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A systematic approach to school refusal
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In this manual Kearney takes his approach to classifying the underlying functions of school refusal and translates them in to modules for treatment. The functional analysis approach has value in giving the therapist a structured method of addressing the likely issues to arise in a comprehensive treatment plan.
I'd only put on note of caution to this set of manuals (therapist and parent) and suggest that a manual for the school would be required - the vital third part of a good treatment package.
I'd only put on note of caution to this set of manuals (therapist and parent) and suggest that a manual for the school would be required - the vital third part of a good treatment package.
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