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Prevalence of School Refusal And Separation Anxiety
Posted on Monday, October 05, 2009
School refusal is usually estimated to occur in 0.4% to 1.5% of the general population. Interestingly, however, some reports suggest that as many as 69% of referrals for any kind of child phobia are for School refusal, and the problem is seen in approximately 3% to 8% of clinic-referred children. Miler and others have suggested that this may be due to the fact that the problem creates considerable difficulty for parents and school personnel.
The prevalence of separation anxiety disorder is uncertain, but it is described in DSM-IV as not uncommon and it is probably one of the most common anxiety disorders in children with an estimated prevalence of about 4%. The prevalence declines after early childhood and the disorder is probably uncommon in adolescent.
School refusal, in the other hand, can be found in children of all ages. There is the suggestion that in youngster children the problem is likely to be related to separation anxiety, but children in middle age groups and early adolescence are likely to have complex and mixed presentations of anxiety and depressive disorders. Prognosis seems best for children under the age of ten years and successful treatment seems to be particularly difficult with older children. If left untreated, serious long term consequences seem possible. In older adolescents separation anxiety may be the precursor of more serious problems. As adults such individuals may be at risk for a number of problems. Large scale longitudinal studies are clearly needed to clarify hypothesized relationships to adult disorders such as agoraphobia and panic disorder.
Reference:
Behavior Disorders of Childhood by Rita Wicks-Nelson & Allen C. Israel
Reference:
Behavior Disorders of Childhood by Rita Wicks-Nelson & Allen C. Israel
Category Article Anxiety, Child Anxiety, School Refusal, Separation Anxiety
Anxiety is a psychological and physiological state characterized by cognitive, somatic, emotional, and behavioral components
Anxiety is a harmful case until is not recovered earlier.It cause more problem afterwards.
Anxiety is very debilitating and can cause a great deal of stress both physiological and physically. Interesting and well written post.
All people has the felling about not to go to school, once. But there's always someone beside them to help them overcome that felling. But not being able to help someone like that, can cause the person to be disorder.
These kind of phobias and Anxiety in children actually can grow up to SPOIL ATTITUDE in long term.
It should be sorted out at earlier Age.
i agree with Win Your "SELF", and i think school and teacher could use some methods so that the children love to go to school
separation anxiety, i think i got this when i was in grade school. i remember that i always cry when my mother left me at school.Well, it was shameful for me to admit it.
I like this article. Good definition for anxiety and its cause.
I have been looking for these informations so I have finally found they. First of all I thank that Anxiety is a psychological st. and is very imoprtant for us.
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With the right education at home, you kid education will be just a normal line.
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