These resources can aid standardized recruitment and assessment of youth with attendance problems. This includes standardized assessment of factors affecting absence and attendance (e.g., family factors and school factors). Here we also provide access to theories of absence/attendance, and in due course we wish to provide access to data which have been made publicly available. These data can be re-examined through new perspectives which are forthcoming. If you are looking for resources in a language other than English, please check the ‘My Country’ menu.
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SCHOOL AVOIDANCE ALLIANCE
In The United States, Jayne Demsky witnessed that many schools carry vast assumptions and misinterpretations of school refusal, its underlying causes, and the distress the kids and families face as they live these scenarios day after day. After seven years of running her school refusal website for parents, Jayne realized that to affect change, she needs to include educating educators and their schools by promoting school refusal awareness, sharing facts and best practices to help get kids back to school. Having schools understand School Avoidance will help improve their empathy, support, and assistance. Jayne just launched SchoolAvoidane.Org, the School Avoidance Alliance, to accelerate this information flow to help students, families, and schools more effectively. She is dedicated to changing misconceptions about this condition and promoting evidence-based solutions for school refusal. For more information, you can reach her at jayne@schoolrefusalhope.org, or www.SchoolAvoidance.Org or @SchoolAvoidance on Twitter.
COPING WITH SCHOOL REFUSAL
A webpage with information for parents about 'coping with school refusal'.
CYBERBULLYING
Top Tips for Preventing Cyberbullying.
DEFINE FINE
Parent Peer Support for School Attendance Difficulties
SCHOOL REFUSAL FAMILIES
A website called focused on school refusal, prepared by a person conducting research in this area
SCHOOL PHOBIA / SCHOOL REFUSAL AUSTRALIA
A parent-created website offering peer support for Australian families with children & teens experiencing school refusal (or as we call it, school can't)
TIS BETTER TO HAVE FEARED AND FLED, THAN NEVER TO HAVE FEARED AT ALL
A blogg about school refusal
WHAT TO DO WHEN YOUR CHILD REFUSES TO GO TO SCHOOL
A podcast, based on an interview with Dr. Jonathan Dalton, Director of the Center for Anxiety and Behavioral Change.
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