School Refusal - Causative Factors

Causative Factors

Factors that can cause reluctance to attend school can be divided into four categories. These categories have been developed based on studies in the United States under the leadership of Professor Christopher Kearney. Some people may be affected by several factors at once.

• It may be possible that the child wants to avoid school-related issues and situations that cause unpleasant feelings in her or him, such as anxiety, depression, or psychosomatic symptoms. The reluctance to attend school is one symptom that can indicate the presence of a larger issue, such as anxiety disorder, depression, sleep disorder, separation anxiety or panic disorder
• It may also be that the child wants to avoid tests, presentations, group work, specific lessons, or interaction with other children.
• The child may want attention from significant people outside of school, such as parents or older acquaintances
• It may be that the child wants to do something more enjoyable outside of school, like practice hobbies, play computer games, watch movies, play with friends such as riding bikes, etc., or learn autodidactictly
• Both School performance and Pre-test anxiety can arise on the basis of inflated claims by teachers and / or parents, but also unrealistic ambitions of the upset child itself
• School refusal may arise as a response to bullying
• Children with social phobia with smooth transition for shyness is to find the start of school is often a tedious. These children generally have a tendency towards acting fearful or depressed under this condition, or if bullied or over-stressed. School phobia is the rarest form of school anxiety