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Wilfulness in School-Phobic Adolescents

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Ian Berg  and
Tony Collins
Ian Berg
Affiliation:
High Lands, Scalebor Park Hospital, Burley in Wharfedale; Department of Psychiatry, University of Leeds
Tony Collins
Affiliation:
High Lands, Scalebor Park Hospital, Burley in Wharfedale, Yorkshire
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School-phobic youngsters have sometimes been described as wilful and stubborn in the family situation (Hersov, 1960), and this tendency has been invoked to explain the particular occurrence of school phobia in early adolescence (Leventhal and Sills, 1964). The emotional upset shown by these young people when faced with the prospect of going to school (Berg, Nichols and Pritchard, 1969), may occasionally appear to be more in the nature of anger, defiance and temper than either fearfulness or misery (Smith, 1970). The fact that in the general population dislike of school is reflected in actual absence only during the secondary school years (Mitchell and Shepherd, 1967) supports the view that assertiveness, which presumably becomes more effective as the child reaches the teens, plays some part in school refusal.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 125 , Issue 588 , November 1974 , pp. 468 - 469
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1974 

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