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School Phobia in the Children of Agoraphobic Women

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Ian Berg*
Affiliation:
Leeds Area Health Authority (Teaching) and Yorkshire Regional Health Authority; Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Leeds, 15 Hyde Park Terrace, Leeds LS2 9LT

Summary

As part of a survey of agoraphobic women in the general population, it was found that school phobia occurred in their children to a greater extent than would be expected. The average incidence in children aged 11 to 15 was 14 per cent. The women with school phobic children had had school phobia themselves to an undue extent.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1976 

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