Getting Your Child Back to School: A Parent's Guide to Solving School Attendance Problems, Revised and Updated Edition

Getting Your Child Back to School: A Parent's Guide to Solving School Attendance Problems, Revised and Updated Edition
ISBN-10
0197547494
ISBN-13
9780197547496
Category
School phobia
Pages
256
Language
English
Published
2021-03
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Author
Christopher A. Kearney

Description

"This chapter provides an overview of types of school attendance problems, including full-day absences, partial absences or skipped classes, tardiness, morning behavior problems in an attempt to miss school, and distress during the school day. This chapter also includes a summary of what the book is about as well as a discussion of conditions under which the book will be more helpful or less helpful to parents. This chapter also includes suggestions for seeking outside professional help if the book is deemed less helpful. This chapter also covers prevalence of school attendance problems, common characteristics of this population, adjusting to a new school, medical conditions associated with absenteeism, and how to define success. This chapter also asks parents to collate main contact information for parties needed to help resolve a child's school attendance problems"--

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