Unwillingly to School
Edited by Ian Berg and Jean Nursten
This book describes the epidemiological aspects of school
absence and offers practical help to those who are faced with
helping children who fail to attend school. A multi-disciplinary
approach to truancy and school refusal if put forward, drawing on
experience from the UK, the USA, Sweden and New Zealand. The
clinical features of the various underlying conditions are also
demonstrated, and the future prospects of those who display this
problem outlined. This new edition of a well-respected book has
been comprehensively rewritten to take into account current
thinking and research.
Contents
Foreword. F. Stone.
Introduction. I. Berg and J. Nursten.
1. Legal aspects. I. Robertson.
2. Chronic disease and school non-attendance. A. Worrall.
3. Features of children who do not attend school. L.V. Klerman
and B.C. Glasscock.
4. School factors. D. Reynolds.
5. Absences in a primary school. S.E. Wright and M. Wardle.
6. Unauthorised absence from school. I. Berg
7. Early adult sequelae of truancy: the National Child
Development Study. K. Fogelman.
8. Later life outcomes of truants in the Cambridge Study. D.
Farrington.
9. Truancy and later psychiatric disorder. L.N. Robins and J.
Robertson.
10. The role of the child and adolescent psychiatrist. M. Murphy
and S. Wolkind.
Commentary on the inclusion of material from the third edition
with particular reference to Jack Kahn's contribution.
11. An overview. J. Kahn, J. Nursten and H.C.M. Carroll.
12. Clinical services. J. Kahn, J. Nursten and H.C.M.
Carroll.
13. The need for a multidisciplinary approach. J. Kahn, J.
Nursten and H.C.M. Carroll.
14. The psychodynamic approach and frames of reference. J. Kahn,
J. Nursten and H.C.M. Carroll.
15. Psychiatric diagnosis. J.S. Werry.
16. The role of the educational psychologist in dealing with
pupil absenteeism. H.C.M. Carroll.
17. Family therapy. J. Lask.
18. Working through parents: a social worker's approach. J.
Nursten.
19. Psychotherapy for school-refusing children with separation
anxiety. J. Edwards and D. Daws.
20. School refusal: a controlled 20-30 year follow-up study of
Swedish urban children. N. Flakierska-Praquin, M. Lindström and C.
Gillberg.
Index.