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The Self-Management of School Phobia: A Case Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

E. McNamara
E. McNamara
Affiliation:
Lancashire Schools', Psychological Service, Preston
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Abstract

The successful resolution of a problem of school phobia using self-management strategies is reported. The clinical report is prefaced by the observation that differences of emphasis are apparent when authorative reviews of the field of self-management are considered—and the conclusion drawn is that the successful outcome could be used to lend support to Kanfer's two-stage model of self-regulation. The client, Anne, was a pupil in the first year of comprehensive schooling. She attended school on only four days during the first term. Problem analyses in terms of operant and classical learning theories are described, and intervention strategies were generated which were accommodated within Kanfer's two-stage model of self regulation. Anne self-recorded school attendance, lesson attendance and self-confidence. School attendance was immediately achieved and progress towards full lesson attendance was made over a seven-week period. Affective state (self-confidence) as assessed by self-report was observed to increase as lesson attendance improved but a temporal lag was observed. The report concludes with some observations of a theoretical nature and justification for the intervention to warrant the descriptor “self-management”.

Type
Research Article
Information
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , July 1988 , pp. 217 - 229
Copyright
Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1988

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