The cause is often unclear, but psychological factors (eg. As anxiety, depression) and social factors (eg. As loneliness, rejection, bullying) can help. If the avoidance behavior leads to the point that a child often missing in school, the behavior can be a sign of more serious problems be (overview of anxiety disorders in children and adolescents). A sensitive child in front of a teacher or his rebukes are afraid. A change of teachers or the timetable may be preceded with special needs school avoidance in children. Younger children tend to develop somatic complaints to invent (z. B. abdominal pain, nausea) or excuses not to go to school. Some children say quite openly that they do not want to go to school. Another variant is that the children go without difficulty to school, but then develop anxiety in school or get symptoms and therefore often need to be picked up or spend the rest of the school day in the hospital room. This behavior has nothing to do with the behavior of young people who deliberately skip school.
Truancy occurs in about 5% of all children of school age and affects girls and boys equally. It often occurs at the age of 5-11 years. The cause is often unclear, but psychological factors (eg. As anxiety, depression) and social factors (eg. As loneliness, rejection, bullying) can help. If the avoidance behavior leads to the point that a child often missing in school, the behavior can be a sign of more serious problems be (overview of anxiety disorders in children and adolescents). A sensitive child in front of a teacher or his rebukes are afraid. A change of teachers or the timetable may be preceded with special needs school avoidance in children. Younger children tend to develop somatic complaints to invent (z. B. abdominal pain, nausea) or excuses not to go to school. Some children say quite openly that they do not want to go to school. Another variant is that the children go without difficulty to school, but then develop anxiety in school or get symptoms and therefore often need to be picked up or spend the rest of the school day in the hospital room. This behavior has nothing to do with the behavior of young people who deliberately skip school. School avoidance often has its roots in: bad school performance difficulties in the family difficulties with peers Most children leave from this behavior, although some do it again for a genuine illness or after the holidays. The child to keep as much as possible at home, is not a solution. Children with school avoidance should be returned immediately to the school, so they do not get gaps in the school curriculum. If the school avoidance is so strong that it inhibits the child’s life and the child is not to change his cajoling by parents or teachers, the child should be referred to a Psycholgen. Treatment and communication between parents and school staff, regular attendance at school and sometimes psychotherapy for the family and the child should include. In therapy it comes to the treatment of the disorders underlying as well as to behavioral techniques to deal with the stress at school.