Psychology



Psychology

Introduction

School phobia is rejection longer a child experiences to go to school for some kind of fear. This fear may be related to factors such as schooling (fear master , low school performance , problems with peers), negative life events ( prolonged illness , breakdown of the family unit ) or separation anxiety from parents (negative to separate from the mother), among other reasons. When the child cries at times of going to school is not always school phobia. Therefore, we must differentiate this phobia of what is called school refusal , which is a conscious decision by the child refusing to go to school, that has nothing to do with anxiety about school phobia. Symptoms of school phobia in children:

Physiological symptoms: sweating of the hands and body, high muscle tension, vomiting, diarrhea, changes in supply and in sleep habits. Cognitive symptoms: fear everything about being at school without being able to specify which specific episode. What is striking is that fear disappears when returning from school and reappeared the next day, when he should depart. Symptoms in behavior: negative behavior, if forced to dress or eat breakfast. Screams, cries and when to remain in class, their behavior is very disturbing.

Discussion

For some approaches to family therapy (eg, for the followers of the American therapist Murray Bowen) is characteristic deep interest in family history, her traumatic episodes and inherited patterns of relationships, passed to the next generation. Bowen believed that some intense emotional problems cannot be solved within the framework of just the current family situation and defended the need to focus therapy on parental family history of one or both spouses, leaving aside the current marital crisis. For example, if a young mother has experience rejection of his own mother, she cannot just meet with the usual difficulties ...