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When Children Refuse School

Parent Workbook

By: Christopher A. Kearney,Anne Marie Albano

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When Children Refuse School

Parent Workbook

By: Christopher A. Kearney,Anne Marie Albano

School refusal behavior is a common and difficult problem facing parents of children and teenagers. The behavior often results in severe academic, social, and psychological problems. A child's absence from school also significantly increases family conflict. If your child experiences anxiety or noncompliance about attending school and has trouble remaining in classes for an entire day, When Children Refuse School, Parent Workbook, and the corresponding Therapist Guide, can help. The third edition of When Children Refuse School, Parent Workbook, is designed to help you work with a qualified therapist to resolve your child's school refusal behavior. This edition introduces parent involvement strategies, especially with respect to intervention compliance, and offers recommendations regarding consultation with school officials. Regardless of whether your child refuses school to relieve school-related distress, to avoid negative social situations at school, to receive attention from you or another family member, or to obtain tangible rewards outside of school, the flexible treatments described in this book will help you and your child overcome school refusal behavior. The Workbook describes what you can expect throughout the assessment and treatment of your child and provides answers to questions you may have about the process of therapy. It also provides instructions for continuing certain aspects of the program at home, including relaxation and breathing techniques, as well as exposure exercises to decrease your child's anxiety.

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0190671688

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Social Anxiety and Social Phobia in Youth

Characteristics, Assessment, and Psychological Treatment

By: Christopher Kearney

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Social Anxiety and Social Phobia in Youth

Characteristics, Assessment, and Psychological Treatment

By: Christopher Kearney

A great bene?t of being a clinical child psychologist is the opportunity to conduct and review research on fascinating areas of human, youthful behavior. And perhaps no behavior is as central to human existence as social behavior, and the lack thereof. In writing this book, therefore, I have been doubly blessed with the chance to examine seminal works on behaviors that are so critical to the development and quality of life of children. This book covers the major historical aspects, characteristics, asse- ment strategies, and psychological treatment techniques for youths with social anxiety and social phobia. Chapter 1 provides an introduction to the related constructs and history of social phobia. Chapters 2 and 3 provide a summary of the characteristics and etiological variables that pertain most to youths with social anxiety and social phobia. Chapters 4 and 5 provide an overview of research- and clinically-based assessment strategies and recommendations for this population. Chapters 6–9 provide a description of treatment techniques that are most relevant and empirically supported for youths with social anxiety and social phobia. Chapter 10 covers issues regarding general and relapse prevention as well as dif?cult cases and future directions.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387225927

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9780387225920

Silence is Not Golden

Strategies for Helping the Shy Child

By: Ph.D. Christopher A. Kearney

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Silence is Not Golden

Strategies for Helping the Shy Child

By: Ph.D. Christopher A. Kearney

Chronic shyness can pose a serious threat to a child's academic, emotional, and social development. Children who are extremely shy may miss out on important learning opportunities, have trouble making friends, and avoid activities and events that they might otherwise enjoy. This can be troubling for parents and school-based professionals who do not have enough time or expertise to coax shy children out of their shells. Silence is Not Golden: Strategies for Helping the Shy Child provides information for parents and educators on the nature of chronic shyness and its most common clinical manifestations among children (such as social anxiety and selective mutism, the refusal to talk in certain situations or settings). Kearney, an expert in childhood anxiety disorders, offers strategies for helping readers to determine the form and purpose of a child's shy, anxious, and avoidant behaviors, and methods for enhancing a child's participation in social interactions at school and elsewhere, with the ultimate goal of preventing such problems from recurring in the future. Alongside social anxiety and selective mutism, other types of anxiety that may cause a child to appear shy in more specific situations-such as separation anxiety and certain phobias-are also discussed. Presented in a conversational style, Silence is Not Golden features widespread visuals, open spaces for writing, step-by-step procedures, and other pedagogical features that enhance its utility, clarity, and responsiveness. This book is a must-read for parents and teachers, as well as professionals who work with shy children, including clinical child psychologists and psychiatrists, social workers, and pediatricians.

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Oxford University Press

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0199753180

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Getting Your Child to Say "Yes" to School

A Guide for Parents of Youth with School Refusal Behavior

By: Christopher Kearney

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Getting Your Child to Say "Yes" to School

A Guide for Parents of Youth with School Refusal Behavior

By: Christopher Kearney

Many parents find getting their child to school in the morning to be quite a challenge. If your child consistently pleads with you to let him stay home from school, if he skips school, if his morning routine is fraught with misbehaviors, or if he exhibits signs of distress and anxiety related to attending school, this book can help. Getting Children to Say Yes to School: A Guide for Parents is designed to help you address your childs school refusal behavior in the early stages. This guide helps you identify school refusal behavior and provides step-by-step instructions to solve the problem. Learn different techniques for getting your child to school, including enhancing relaxation, changing your child's negative thoughts about school, establishing a clear and predictable morning routine, and setting up a system of rewards for going to school. Tools such as worksheets, lists of Dos and Don'ts, sample parent/child dialogues, and Fridge Notes combine to create a workbook-type resource that will help you increase your childs school attendance and relieve your own feelings of concern and worry. Easy to read and filled with concrete strategies, this book is the first of its kind dedicated to educating and arming parents with the tools they need to resolve their child's school refusal behavior.

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0190294361

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Managing School Absenteeism at Multiple Tiers

An Evidence-Based and Practical Guide for Professionals

By: Christopher A. Kearney

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Managing School Absenteeism at Multiple Tiers

An Evidence-Based and Practical Guide for Professionals

By: Christopher A. Kearney

School absenteeism is a pervasive and difficult problem faced by mental health and school-based professionals. Even in mild forms, school absenteeism has been shown to be a significant risk factor for social, behavioral, and academic problems in middle childhood and adolescence, as well as psychiatric, economic, and occupational difficulties in adulthood. Problematic absenteeism has been examined for decades by professionals of many different disciplines, leading to a considerably fractured literature. Managing School Absenteeism at Multiple Tiers provides an integrative strategy for preventing, assessing, and addressing cases of youth with school absenteeism at multiple levels of severity and complexity. Dr. Christopher Kearney presents a multi-tiered framework based on prevention (Tier 1), early intervention for emerging cases (Tier 2), and more extensive intervention and systemic strategies for severe cases (Tier 3). Each tier is based on empirically supported strategies from the literature, and emphasis is placed on specific, implementable recommendations. This approach is based on a Response to Intervention model that has emerged as a powerful guide to prevention, assessment, and treatment of social and academic problems in schools. Response to Intervention is based upon tenets that parallel developments in the school absenteeism literature: (1) a proactive focus on early identification of learning and behavior problems and immediate, effective intervention, (2) universal, targeted, and intensive interventions, (3) frequent progress monitoring, (4) functional behavioral assessment, (5) empirically supported treatment procedures and protocols to reduce obstacles to academic achievement (including absenteeism), and (6) a team-based approach for implementation. This user-friendly, practical guide will be useful to mental health professionals, school administrators, guidance counselors, social workers and psychologists, as well as others who address kids with problematic absenteeism such as pediatricians and probation officers.

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0199985316

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Helping School Refusing Children and Their Parents

A Guide for School-Based Professionals

By: Christopher A. Kearney

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Helping School Refusing Children and Their Parents

A Guide for School-Based Professionals

By: Christopher A. Kearney

Children who miss substantial amounts of school pose one of the most vexing problems for school officials. In many cases, school personnel must assess these students and successfully help them to return to the academic setting. This can be difficult considering most school-based professionals are pressed for time and do not have access to proper resources. The information in this book can help school officials combat absenteeism and reduce overall dropout rates. Designed for guidance counselors, teachers, principals and deans, school psychologists, school-based social workers, and other school professionals, Helping School-Refusing Children and Their Parents outlines various strategies for helping children get back to school with less distress, all of which can be easily implemented in schools. This fully-updated second edition provides recommendations for a multi-tiered approach to school absenteeism that concentrates on prevention (Tier 1), early intervention for emerging cases (Tier 2), and more extensive intervention and systemic strategies for severe cases (Tier 3), with each tier based on empirically supported strategies grounded in scientific research. A chapter on assessment describes several methods for identifying school refusal behavior, including time-limited techniques for school officials who have little opportunity to conduct detailed evaluations. Worksheets for facilitating assessment are included and can easily be photocopied from the book. Other chapters provide advice for working collaboratively with parents, preventing relapse, and special issues. Topics such as poverty, homelessness, teenage pregnancy, violence, and school safety are also addressed, as are individualized education or 505 plans and consultation with other clinicians.

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Oxford University Press

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0190662077

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9780190662073

Getting Your Child Back to School

A Parent's Guide to Solving School Attendance Problems, Revised and Updated Edition

By: Christopher A. Kearney

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Getting Your Child Back to School

A Parent's Guide to Solving School Attendance Problems, Revised and Updated Edition

By: Christopher A. Kearney

This chapter provides an overview of types of school attendance problems, including full-day absences, partial absences or skipped classes, tardiness, morning behavior problems in an attempt to miss school, and distress during the school day. This chapter also includes a summary of what the book is about as well as a discussion of conditions under which the book will be more helpful or less helpful to parents. This chapter also includes suggestions for seeking outside professional help if the book is deemed less helpful. This chapter also covers prevalence of school attendance problems, common characteristics of this population, adjusting to a new school, medical conditions associated with absenteeism, and how to define success. This chapter also asks parents to collate main contact information for parties needed to help resolve a child's school attendance problems"--

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0197547494

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Helping Children with Selective Mutism and Their Parents

A Guide for School-Based Professionals

By: Christopher Kearney, Ph.D.

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Helping Children with Selective Mutism and Their Parents

A Guide for School-Based Professionals

By: Christopher Kearney, Ph.D.

Selective mutism, or refusal or unwillingness to speak in certain situations or settings, poses a particular challenge to educators and other school-based professionals. In many cases, school personnel are on the front lines of assessment and treatment for these children and must help them succeed in an academic setting. This can be difficult considering that many school-based professionals are pressed for time and resources. Helping Children with Selective Mutism and Their Parents: A Guide for School-based Professionals provides information that can help readers better understand and combat selective mutism. Written for guidance counselors, teachers, principals and deans, school psychologists, and school-based social workers, this book educates readers about the nature of selective mutism and its most common clinical manifestations (such as social anxiety, oppositional behavior, and communication difficulties). Offering methods to determine the form and function of a child's chronically mute behavior, the book provides evidence-based strategies to enhance a child's verbal participation at school and in other social and academic activities. The chapters provide advice for working collaboratively with parents, preventing relapse, and tackling special issues. Easy-to-read and conversational in style, Helping Children with Selective Mutism and Their Parents offers numerous visuals, handouts, case vignettes, and FAQs. The book is an essential resource for educators faced with children with selective mutism, as well as other professionals who work with this population, including clinical child psychologists and psychiatrists, social workers, and pediatricians.

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0199889511

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When Children Refuse School

Therapist Guide

By: Christopher A. Kearney,Anne Marie Albano

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When Children Refuse School

Therapist Guide

By: Christopher A. Kearney,Anne Marie Albano

Many children and teenagers refuse to attend school or have anxiety-related difficulties remaining in classes for an entire day. School refusal behavior can contribute to a child's academic, social, and psychological problems, impact a child's chances for future educational, financial, and personal success, and significantly affect family functioning. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) has been shown to be a highly effective treatment for youth who exhibit this behavior. The third edition of When Children Refuse School, Therapist Guide, provides an updated multi-tiered approach model that can be used to effectively address the main types of school refusal behavior. The Guide introduces new material on very severe and chronic cases of problematic absenteeism, including alternative educational avenues and expansion of manual procedures, for children and adults. This manual includes tools for assessing a child's reasons for school refusal behavior and is based on a functional, prescriptive model. It presents well-tested techniques arranged by function to tailor treatment to a child's particular characteristics. Each treatment package also contains a detailed discussion of special topics pertinent to treating youths with school refusal behavior, such as medication, panic attacks, and being teased. A corresponding workbook is also available for parents, who often play an important part in a child's recovery. This comprehensive program is an invaluable resource for clinicians treating school refusal behavior.

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0190604069

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When Children Refuse School

Parent Workbook

By: Christopher A. Kearney,Anne Marie Albano

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When Children Refuse School

Parent Workbook

By: Christopher A. Kearney,Anne Marie Albano

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Social Anxiety and Social Phobia in Youth

Characteristics, Assessment, and Psychological Treatment

By: Christopher Kearney

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Social Anxiety and Social Phobia in Youth

Characteristics, Assessment, and Psychological Treatment

By: Christopher Kearney

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When Children Refuse School

When Children Refuse School

Social Anxiety and Social Phobia in Youth

Social Anxiety and Social Phobia in Youth

Silence is Not Golden

Silence is Not Golden

Getting Your Child to Say "Yes" to School

Getting Your Child to Say "Yes" to School

Managing School Absenteeism at Multiple Tiers

Managing School Absenteeism at Multiple Tiers

Helping School Refusing Children and Their Parents

Helping School Refusing Children and Their Parents

Getting Your Child Back to School

Getting Your Child Back to School

Helping Children with Selective Mutism and Their Parents

Helping Children with Selective Mutism and Their Parents

When Children Refuse School

When Children Refuse School

When Children Refuse School

When Children Refuse School

Social Anxiety and Social Phobia in Youth

Social Anxiety and Social Phobia in Youth

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