| Summary: | In this book, the author discusses the historical context and common strategies for treating the problem of school refusal behavior, offering a cutting-edge, empirically based, and systematic approach that focuses on the specific factors that maintain the behavior in each case. Drawing on an extensive clinical database, the author carefully describes each of the functions served by school refusal behavior: avoidance of stimuli that provoke negative affectivity, escape from aversive social-evaluative situations, attention seeking, and tangible rewards. Through extensive and realistic examples, the author provides specific recommendations for assessing and treating each type of case. In the final chapter, he takes a hard look at extreme cases and the prevention of relapse. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved).
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