[Download Now] Effective Techniques for School Refusal Behavior: Real Help for Children & Adolescents Who Can’t or Won’t Go to School – George Haarman

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I don’t want to go to school. Who has not heard that phrase before? There are many children and adolescents whose struggles with school are much deeper and require more urgent attention. They are showing school refusal behavior and their actions signal that something is wrong.

School refusal behavior is associated with co-morbid disorders and has long-term consequences. School refusers have serious problems with nightmares, temper outbursts, poor academic performance, and even physical ailments.

Dr. George Haarman will show you how to simultaneously address two competing demands when treating school refusal, immediately meeting attendance expectations set by the schools while also digging deeper to uncover and treat underlying problems.

You will be able to differentiate school refusal from common phobic reactions by recognizing and addressing the presence of anxiety, depression, and other disorders that may be co-morbid or causing school refusal. With a better understanding of the motivation and reinforcement systems related to the school refusal behavior, you can offer more individualized intervention plans that have a better chance of success.

1. Recognize the behavioral and clinical features of school refusers to better inform clinical decision making.
2. Analyze the functional purpose of school refusal behavior to determine appropriate treatment strategies.
3. Identify co-morbid psychological disorders associated with school refusal to improve treatment outcomes.
4. Evaluate individual, family, behavioral, and pharmacological approaches to the treatment of school refusers.
5. Design strategic school refusal plans that target the underlying motivation and reinforcement systems.
6. Explain to parents and school personnel how to incorporate numerous tips designed to remedy school refusal behavior.

They are either Truants or Refusers.

Assessing why they aren’t in school is important.

• The dynamic difference between school refusers and truants
• Common characteristics of school refusers
• Completing a functional analysis of school refusers
  • Categorical-dimensional approach
  • Reinforcement contingencies
• Co-morbid DSM-5® disorders
  • Anxiety disorders
  • Oppositional Defiant Disorder
  • PostTraumatic Stress Disorder
  • Depressive disorders
  • Phobias
  • Conduct disorders
  • Learning disorders
• Factors to consider when assessing for school refusal
• Standardized assessment measures to employ
• Critical questions to ask refusers and their parents

There are strategies that get people back in school and keep them there.

• Factors that increase the likelihood of success
• Individual intervention/therapy
  • Systematic Desensitization
  • Exposure therapy
  • Modeling
  • Cognitive therapy
  • Educational/supportive therapy
• Family intervention/therapy
  • Parent training
  • Structured family therapy
  • Systemic family therapy
  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy-School Refusal
• Pharmacological intervention
  • Tricyclics
  • SSRI’s
  • Beta Blockers
  • Benzodiazepines
• Interventions for refusers seeking to:
  • Avoid negative effect
  • Escape from aversive social and evaluative aspects of school
  • Get attention
  • Receive tangible reinforcers
• Craft an individualized intervention plan
  • “School Makes Me Want to Throw Up”
  • “Everybody There Hates Me”
  • “Can’t I Stay at Home and Have You Teach Me?”
  • “The School of Hard Knocks”

School personnel and parents are involved.

• Forced school attendance
• Using school escorts
• 35 concrete tips for parents
• Suggestions for teachers and school counselors

George Haarman reviewed Effective Techniques for School Refusal Behavior: Real Help for Children and Adolescents Who Can’t or Won’t Go to School. George Haarman wrote Effective Techniques for School Refusal Behavior: Real Help for Children and Adolescents Who Can’t or Won’t Go to School. George Haarman has a discount on Effective Techniques for School Refusal Behavior.