School Avoidance and Anxiety

School Avoidance and Anxiety Held March 5, 2009

Presenter: Golda S. Ginsburg, PhD, Director Research, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins Hospital

School refusal is a symptom, not a diagnosis but it affects between 5% and 28% of school-aged population. Children and youth who suffer from anxiety often refuse to attend school. This results in lowered academic achievement, occupational difficulties, family discord, and poor social relationships. Learn tools to assess school refusal and treatments that help.