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

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Kearney, Christopher A.
Edition:1st ed.
Imprint:Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, 2001.
Description:1 online resource (xiii, 265 pages)
Language:English
Subject:
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11139148
Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other authors / contributors:American Psychological Association.
ISBN:1557986991
9781557986993
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-242) and indexes.
English.
Made available through: American Psychological Association's PsyBooks Collection.
Print version record.
Summary: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 extensive clinical database, the author carefully describes each of the functions served by school refusal behavior: avoidance of stimuli that provoke negative affectivity, escape from aversive social-evaluative situations, attention seeking, and tangible rewards. Through extensive and realistic examples, the author provides specific recommendations for assessing and treating each type of case. In the final chapter, he takes a hard look at extreme cases and the prevention of relapse. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved).
Other form:School refusal behavior in youth (print)