School Refusal - Diagnosis

Diagnosis

Some children who often cling to the mother clearly or other attachment figure due to separation anxiety and/or attachment theory see the onset is usually already in pre-school or Crèche or to school starts.

School phobia is diagnosed primarily through questionnaires and interviews with doctors. Other methods like observation have not proven to be as useful. This is partly because of (school) anxiety is an internal, lying within the person phenomenon. An example of a modern multidimensional questionnaire is the "Differential Power Anxiety Inventory 'approach, with twelve scales diagnosed four different areas: anxiety-inducing conditions, manifestations, coping strategies and stabilization forms”.

• Cogniative and life style exploration
• 'School Phobia Test' (SAT), by Erich Husslein
• 'Anxiety questionnaire for students', (AFS) by Wilhelm et Wieczerkowski. al.
• 'Differential Power Anxiety Inventory', (DAI) by Detlef H. Rost & Franz J. Schermer