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Classification of severe school attendance problems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Ian Berg ,
Geraldine Casswell ,
Alison Goodwin ,
Roy Hullin ,
Ralph McGuire  and
Gill Tagg
Ian Berg*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Leeds
Geraldine Casswell
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Leeds
Alison Goodwin
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Leeds
Roy Hullin
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Leeds
Ralph McGuire
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Leeds
Gill Tagg
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Leeds
*
1 Address for correspondence: Dr Ian Berg, Department of Psychiatry, University of Leeds, 15 Hyde Terrace, Leeds LS2 9LT.
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Synopsis

Sixty-four children taken to court for failure to attend school were reliably classified into 4 groups, according to whether they exhibited the features of ‘school refusal’ and/or ‘truancy’. About a fifth of them were found to exhibit ‘school refusal’; a third showed ‘truancy’; less than a sixth exhibited both ‘school refusal’ and ‘truancy’ combined; and over a third had the characteristics of neither condition. Differences between these categories were found in manifestations of psychiatric disturbance and in responsiveness to a court adjournment procedure.

Type
Research Article
Information
Psychological Medicine , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , February 1985 , pp. 157 - 165
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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