School refusal behavior in youth : a functional approach to assessment and treatment /

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 extensi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kearney, Christopher A.
Corporate Author:	American Psychological Association
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, 2001.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	School phobia. Phobic Disorders > psychology. Child Behavior Disorders > psychology. Child. Phobic Disorders > therapy. Schools. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

What Is school refusal behavior?
Characteristics of youth with school refusal behavior
Classification strategies
Understanding the functions
Assessing youth with school refusal behavior
Youth who avoid stimuli that provoke general negative affectivity
Youth who escape aversive social or evaluative situations
Youth who refuse school for attention
Youth who refuse school for tangible reinforcement outside of school
Extreme cases, prevention, and relapse.