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Claudi-Santi F Fernandes; Sneha Kannoth; Tyra M Pendergrass Boomer; Kimberly D Hieftje; Lynn E Fiellin – Children & Schools, 2024
Chronic absenteeism is a public health concern. School refusal due to emotional distress is one reason students exhibit chronic absenteeism. The objective of this systematic review was to determine potential aspects of interventions, in school settings or involving a school-based component, that are successful in addressing school refusal among…
Descriptors: Attendance, Intervention, High School Students, Adolescents
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Maynard, Brandy R.; Brendel, Kristen E.; Bulanda, Jeffery J; Thompson, Aaron M.; Pigott, Terri D. – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2015
School refusal behavior, affecting between 1% and 5% of school-age children, is a psychosocial problem for students characterized by severe emotional distress and anxiety at the prospect of going to school, leading to difficulties in attending school and, in some cases, significant absences from school (Burke & Silverman, 1987; Elliot, 1999;…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Student Behavior, Behavior Problems
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Maynard, Brandy R.; Brendel, Kristie E.; Bulanda, Jeffrey J.; Pigott, Terri – Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2013
School refusal behavior is a psychosocial problem for students characterized by severe emotional distress and anxiety at the prospect of going to school, leading to difficulties in attending school and, in some cases, significant absences from school (Kahn, Nursten, & Carroll, 1981). In addition to severe emotional upset, researchers have…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Behavior Problems, Attendance, Emotional Disturbances
Oklan, Ari M. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Alternative education students face many interacting challenges that put them at significant risk of dropping out of school (Carver & Lewis, 2010), as well as deleterious health and psychological outcomes, and intergenerational cycles of sociopolitical disadvantage (Laird, Kienzel, Debell & Chapman, 2007). Despite the persistent national…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, At Risk Students, Program Effectiveness, Outcomes of Treatment
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Wheatley, Anna; Murrihy, Rachael; van Kessel, Jacobine; Wuthrich, Viviana; Remond, Louise; Tuqiri, Rebekka; Dadds, Mark; Kidman, Antony – Youth Studies Australia, 2009
A 16-week, bi-weekly, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)-based aggression management training course was conducted with a limited sample of behavioural school students in New South Wales. Attendance, withdrawal and suspension rates over the training period were compared to those of a control period. Parent and teacher feedback, assessed at pre-…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Suspension, Foreign Countries, Aggression
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Ollendick, Thomas H.; King, Neville J. – Psychology in the Schools, 1999
Reviews basic principles and practices of child behavioral assessment. Examines the effects of cognitive-behavioral interventions in the treatment of school refusal. Concludes that these interventions can be enhanced by a prescriptive treatment approach in which assessment information is used to tailor treatment to the specified problem of a given…
Descriptors: Attendance, Behavior Modification, Behavioral Science Research, Cognitive Restructuring