What You Need to Know About Accommodations
There are effective new tools families and schools can use to help kids w anxiety disorders or school avoidance get back to school. These interventions have created some confusion around the meaning of the word “accommodations.”
Hear a 15-year-old describe how CBT & Exposure Therapy helped his school avoidance
Parents, clinicians, and researchers covet school avoidant kids’ insights and thoughts to help us find better solutions. So, when we see a teenager who speaks about it, wow, we surely want to hear what they have to say.
The School’s Role in Successful School Avoidance Interventions
School avoidance brings a new set of questions and challenges for schools. The responsibility of who will be involved in helping the student gets complicated. Each school district has its own set of attitudes and beliefs toward mental health, school avoidance, and their school’s role. Some schools feel it is not their place to engage […]
School Avoidance Treatment Options: What is Rapid Return?
A discussion with Dr.Naoki Maeda of the School of Social Welfare, Kyushu University of Health and Welfare, Nobeoka, Japan
Have you heard that exposure therapy is the treatment of choice for school avoidance?
New Way to Combat Childhood Anxiety: Treat the Parents
This article from Yale News features promising research about how parent training can help improve anxiety levels, tolerance and outcomes in their children. According to Dr. Eli Lebowitz, Director of the Program for Anxiety Disorders at the Yale Child Study Center.
