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What is wrong with Sandy???!!!! Is She Seriously Ill??? School Refusal; is it a Diagnosis or a Presenting Complaint???
Eman Ahmed Zaky*Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Egypt
- *Corresponding Author:
- Eman Ahmed Zaky
Professor of Pediatrics and Head of Child Psychiatry Clinic
Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine
Ain Shams University, Egypt
Tel: 002-01062978734
E-mail: emanzaky@med.asu.edu.eg
Received Date: Jan 11, 2017; Accepted Date: Jan 11, 2017; Published Date: Jan 18, 2017
Citation: Zaky EA (2017) What is wrong with Sandy???!!!! Is She Seriously Ill??? School Refusal; is it a Diagnosis or a Presenting Complaint???. J Child Adolesc Behav 5: e113. doi:10.4172/2375-4494.1000e113
Copyright: © 2017 Zaky EA. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
School refusal is problematic to the child and his family because modern societies value education and make primary schooling compulsory. Its prevalence is about 2% among school aged children and it represents 5% of children’s referrals because of a suspected pediatric mental disorder. School refusal is not a diagnosis but an alarming manifestation of many problems involving the child, family, and or school. After detailed physical and mental evaluation, intervention must be tailored individually and it entails a combination of Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Family Therapy, Pediatric Mental Health Education liaison, and the intake of appropriate medications for any discovered associated pediatric mental disorder. The success rate of proper management of school refusal is about 70%. The younger the child, the milder the associated symptoms, and the earlier the intervention, the better the prognosis.
