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School Phobia

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It was more than 60 years ago that Broadwin (1932) described a “special kind of truancy” that delineated school phobia from other forms of nonattendance:

The child is absent from school for periods of varying from several months to a year. The absence is consistent. At all times the parents know where the child is. It is near the mother or near the home. The reason for the truancy is incomprehensible to the parents and to the school. The child may say that it is afraid to go to school, afraid of the teacher or say that it does not know why it will not go to school.

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Blagg, N., Yule, W. (1994). School Phobia. In: Ollendick, T.H., King, N.J., Yule, W. (eds) International Handbook of Phobic and Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents. Issues in Clinical Child Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1498-9_9

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