School Phobia, Panic Attacks and Anxiety in Children - part 1 potx

[...]... avoid panicky symptoms and panic attacks fearing, for example, vomiting, fainting or having diarrhoea Other children may have experienced stressful events 18 SCHOOL PHOBIA, PANIC ATTACKS AND ANXIETY IN CHILDREN Possible triggers for school phobia (collected from literature mentioned at the end of the chapter) include: 1 Being bullied 2 Starting school for the first time 3 Moving to a new area and having... attended 13 14 SCHOOL PHOBIA, PANIC ATTACKS AND ANXIETY IN CHILDREN Is the child truanting? School phobia is an umbrella term for children who do not want to go to school because of anxiety and their anxiety keeps them at home This is contrasted with truanting children who intentionally do not go to school and who usually do not stay at home (and truanting older adolescents often show anti-social behaviour,... separation and divorce 10 Violence in the home or any kind of abuse, of the child or of another parent 11 Not having good friends (or any friends at all) 12 Being unpopular, being chosen last for teams and feeling a physical failure (in games and gymnastics) 13 Feeling an academic failure 14 Fearing panic attacks when travelling to school or while in school (Please note that depression has not been included... been included on general information about anxiety, as school phobia is a result of extreme anxiety in children and is a complex disorder Many anxiety disorders coexist or are linked in some way Because anxiety is such a big problem for children with Asperger syndrome, and many children with it experience a high degree of school INTRODUCTION 11 phobia, information that is specific to understanding and. .. being involved in criminal activities) .1 Other children may simply prefer to be at home playing, finding it more interesting than being in school and so try to get their parents’ permission to be at home, but also do not experience fear School phobic children who do not attend school because their symptoms are so severe are not truants, because they have a specific anxiety about school and they remain.. .10 SCHOOL PHOBIA, PANIC ATTACKS AND ANXIETY IN CHILDREN The combined effect of these events made my daughter anxious about leaving home and not being in the same room as either my husband or me when at home, needing to follow us everywhere Nine months later she was a different child, having 90 per cent recovered It helped that the student house in the castle closed and we were moved... encephalomyelitis (ME) – in children is often confused with anxiety or school phobia and parents and carers of children with CFS have often been accused of enabling them to truant by professionals who do not understand the condition or cannot make a diagnosis of what is wrong with the child Because of this, children with CFS have also been mentioned 12 SCHOOL PHOBIA, PANIC ATTACKS AND ANXIETY IN CHILDREN To avoid... symptoms including: • • • • • • crying diarrhoea feeling faint a frequent need to urinate headaches hyperventilation SCHOOL PHOBIA • • • • • • 17 insomnia nausea and vomiting a rapid heartbeat shaking stomachaches sweating School phobic children feel very unwell when having to go to school The symptoms disappear once the ‘threat’ of going to school is lifted For example, once a child has convinced a parent... secondary school, and is linked to social phobia • The third is at age 14 to 16 and is linked to social phobia and other psychiatric disorders such as depression and other phobias There may be another small peak due to separation anxiety when children have a change in school building when they move from infants to juniors, or from first to middle schools at age seven to eight Fears children have when starting... the school bus, relating it to the times she’d been sick in the ambulance and when she’d felt sick on the school bus after stepping in dog mess.) Three age groups that have peaks in school phobia There are three peaks for school phobia: 1, 2 • The first is at age five to seven, and is related to separation anxiety • The second predominates at age 11 to 12 , due to the anxieties associated with changing . something embar - 14 SCHOOL PHOBIA, PANIC ATTACKS AND ANXIETY IN CHILDREN rassing might happen on the bus or train, and not feeling secure unless with someone to look after her should she feel panicky urinate • headaches • hyperventilation 16 SCHOOL PHOBIA, PANIC ATTACKS AND ANXIETY IN CHILDREN • insomnia • nausea and vomiting • a rapid heartbeat • shaking • stomachaches • sweating. School phobic children feel very. Rigby ISBN 1 85302 872 X Stop the Bullying A Handbook for Schools Ken Rigby ISBN 1 85302 070 3 School Phobia, Panic Attacks and Anxiety in Children Márianna Csóti Jessica Kingsley Publishers London and