Reviews studies that have examined comorbid syndromal and symptomatic depression and school refusal behavior. Discusses implications for classification systems, including need for flexible taxonomic strategies that include persons with severe collective, and less severe individual, symptoms of negative affectivity. Discusses recommendations for…

Evidence from this study suggests that if the sample size is large and if economic barriers to treatment are not present, one finds that intelligence is distributed among school phobics as it is distributed in the general population. Implications for practice and research are discussed. (Author)

This case study presents an example of how one school psychologist helped a child and an entire class solve a problem. Although the techniques used are not unique to school psychological practice, the problems presented by their use are. The procedure consisted of a desensitization process lasting ten weeks. (Author)

This article discusses general features of school phobia and specific clinical and familial traits and characteristics. Included are overviews of theoretical explanations, types of school phobia, suggested methods of treatment, and their efficacy. (Author)

The school-phobic behavior of a seven-year-old male was modified through implementing a program characterized by maximum parental involvement, restructuring of natural consequences, and the use of a make-up period. Full-time school attendance was achieved on the 16th day of the program. (Author)

The study's three main criterion measures were: (1) estimates of children's predominant mood state; (2) judgments about a child's predominant within-session mode of expression; and (3) aides' ratings of session satisfaction. Both predominant mood and mode of expression differed for children with different initial referral problems. (Author)