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School refusal is a child-motivated refusal to attend school or difficulty remaining in class for the full day. [1] Child-motivated absenteeism occurs autonomously, by the volition of the child. This behavior is differentiated from non-child-motivated absences in which parents withdraw children from school or are unable to bring their children ...
School refusal — also called school avoidance — is becoming increasingly common in children and teens due to soaring rates of anxiety and post-pandemic fallout.
The School Refusal Assessment Scale-Revised (SRAS-R), developed by Christopher Kearney and Wendy Silverman, is a psychological assessment tool designed to evaluate school refusal disorder symptoms in children and identify their reasons for avoiding school. [1]
The parents of a child absent from school without a legitimate excuse are notified by the school. If the parents refuse to send their child to school or are unable to control their child, local child services or social services officers may request the police to escort the child to school, and in extreme cases may petition a court to partially ...
The school has set aside time for students who have missed over 10% of school days to catch up on their work with a social worker. This time is separate from class time, so students don't miss new ...
50–41 Moderate degree of interference in functioning in most social areas or severe impairment of functioning in one area, such as might result from, for example, suicidal preoccupations and ruminations, school refusal and other forms of anxiety, obsessive rituals, major conversion symptoms, frequent anxiety attacks, poor to inappropriate ...
A Vermont girls’ high school basketball team deemed ineligible to play in future activities after forfeiting a game against a team with a transgender student-athlete is now suing educational ...
School districts around the country are being accused of funneling kids from schools to juvenile jails at an alarming clip, but Connecticut has worked hard in recent years to reverse course. The state consolidated everything related to youth crime under one roof and passed a series of laws during the 2000s to reduce the number of incarcerated ...