Children experience significant number of stressful situations at school during their academic years. The aims of this study were to identify school refusers groups of children through latent profile ...

School hurt so much, I just stopped going. In these enlightened times, my condition would likely be swiftly identified as “school refusal behavior,” treated with care and skill and billed to my ...

Every state and country where school is compulsory is faced with the problem commonly labeled school refusal. Everywhere, a significant number of kids strongly resist going to school and manage to ...

You may have heard of 'school refusal syndrome,' but have you ever heard of a 'school refusal clinic'? Recently, a Beijing hospital's specialized outpatient service for children who refuse to attend ...

School refusal is not simply a matter of truancy or disobedience; it often stems from various factors, including anxiety, depression, ADHD, ODD, and CD, learning disabilities, bullying, family ...

I first heard about 'hikikomori' on a visit to Japan 25 years ago. It was a new term then, used to describe severe and prolonged school refusal in teenagers, sometimes evolving into complete social ...