"school phobia" is a correct and usable term in written English.
It refers to a type of anxiety disorder that is characterized by an extreme fear of attending school. For example, "John has suffered from school phobia since he was a child, and has been unable to attend classes for more than a few hours at a time."
School phobia may afflict schoolchildren who are overly attached to a parent.
The taxonomy of school refusal — from school phobia to truancy — is complicated, and it has changed over time.
The emergence of the diagnosis of school phobia and test anxiety reflect a tendency towards the diseasing of education.
The centre has supported pupils with many complex problems, ranging from school phobia to risk of abuse, children in care to one child with serious behavioural and learning difficulties following a head injury.
Sleep disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, social anxiety disorder (school phobia) attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), conduct disorder, learning disorder, enuresis, encopresis and tic disorder should be carefully looked for and treated when found, considering their negative burden in disability and prognosis of pediatric headache.
This can lead to a school phobia.
Interestingly, excess symptom reporting by children/adolescents did not occur for school and social phobia.
This result replicates findings by DiBartolo and her colleagues [ 15] indicating that school and social phobia were underreported compared to reports of other anxiety symptoms which were related to the child's concern regarding positive self-presentation.
Parents underreporting of somatic/panic, and generalized anxiety symptoms on the one hand, and that children refuse (and/or deny) symptoms of school and social phobia on the other hand, stress the importance of obtaining different perspectives in the diagnostic process of children and adolescents.
Chris Pyle Head, Lancaster Royal Grammar School In your article on phobias (Fright school, G2, 5 December), you quote the CEO of Anxiety UK saying "Because [phobias] often seem comical and irrational, the media doesn't take them seriously".
In a longitudinal study among youths, pathological gaming predicted higher levels of depression, anxiety, social phobia, and poor school performance [ 22].
