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Educational Attainment in Adolescent School Phobia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Ian Berg ,
Tony Collins ,
Ralph McGuire  and
John O'Melia
Ian Berg
Affiliation:
Leeds Area Health Authority (Teaching) and Yorkshire Regional Health Authority; Clinical Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, University of Leeds; High Lands, Scalebor Park Hospital, Burley-in-Wharfedale, Yorkshire
Tony Collins
Affiliation:
St. Charles Youth Treatment Centre, Brentwood, Essex
Ralph McGuire
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh; 60 The Pleasance, Edinburgh, 8
John O'Melia
Affiliation:
Department of Child Psychiatry, Guy's Hospital, London, S.E.1
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The educational attainment of 100 school-phobic youngsters was compared to that of 100 other psychiatric patients, using the reading quotient as the main measure. Age and IQ were allowed for. RQs were, on average, higher in the school phobic group than in the other subjects, except in a small number of younger children of high IQ. Additional comparisons with another group of psychiatric patients and with the general population, using regression equations, failed to provide any evidence of poor educational attainment in school phobia.

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Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 126 , Issue 5 , May 1975 , pp. 435 - 438
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1975 

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