School phobia

School phobia

School fear: presentation and arrangements

To after National Education, 150,000 youngsters would leave each year the seats of school as a result of school fear. This somewhat obscure expression behind different circumstances yet a typical trouble: a frenzy at going to class.

Normal playing time: 2'19

To after National Education, 150,000 kids would leave each year the seats of school due to class fear. This somewhat obscure expression behind different circumstances yet a typical misery:

 a frenzy at going to class.Normal playing time: 2'19

What is it?

School phobia is a true phobia should not be confused with the separation anxiety in young children at nursery school or with absenteeism of teenagers who rebel against parental authority.

This anxiety disorder affects both boys and girls, as the worst good students and all social categories. It most often occurs during adolescence, but may also apply to young children and students.

What are the symptoms?

School phobia can manifest as various physical and/or psychological symptoms:

 • anxiety

 • panic attacks

 • crying spells

 • stomach pain

 • nausea and vomiting

 • diarrhea

 • headache

 • insomnia

 • disease

 • depression and suicidal States repeatedly.

In summary, children and phobic teenagers go completely sick to the idea of getting to school. They want to go back to school but do not succeed.

For parents often clueless and wrong, it is difficult to tell the difference between comedy and real emotional distress. Yet, in real cases of phobia, young does not simulate these symptoms.

What are reasons?

Reasons of school phobia remain badly known and can be numerous:

• an excessive fright of failure

• a fright of the judgement of the professors and of other pupils

• an ancient fright of separation, sometimes reactivated by a mourning happened recently in the circle of the child

• an attack or threats which the child suffered to the school.

Contrary to what it would be possible to believe, the children who become the sick at the idea of going to school is lazy, nor demotivated.

What to make?

If your child introduces signs of school phobia, avoid both following attitudes:

• be unaware of the suffering of your child

• accept his refusal to be sent to school.

To note: correspondence courses to CNED have to be a solution of last resort. This solution is not recommended because it is better to be confronted with his fright progressively rather than at escaping it. Risk is to be able never again to tread underfoot to the school or even in a public place.

The best solution consists in admitting the anxiety of your child and in searching solutions so that he could nevertheless go to school:

• in dialect with his professors, the school nurse or the welfare worker of the establishment

• consult at once your family practitioner who will orientate you to a specialist

• follow advice of the specialist who will offer or not a psychotherapy and/or a medical treatment.

To evade genuine outcomes as the désocialisation or the total déscolarisation, it is important to respond from the principal indications of tension connected to the school and not to falter to be made a difference.