School Refusal

Martin Herbert, is Honorary Consultant Clinical Psychologist at the Royal and Devon Exeter Health Care Trust and Emeritus Professor at the University of Exeter.

• Introduction 1Part I: Assessment 5Part II: General Considerations for Intervention 15Part III: Intervention with the Young Person 18Part IV: Intervention with the Parents 32Part V: Intervention at the School Level 47Part VI: Concluding Remarks 51Appendices 54

"Some of these [books in the PACTS series 2] are quite outstanding guides for practitioners, full of practical steps to take and worldly wisdom as well as good theretical grounding ... The approach taken to school refusal is also very sound ... Overall I would recommend that this series is present for anybody working with adolescents, as they provide a very useful guide for trainees to get stuck in with treatment." Stephen Scott, Institute of Psychiatry, London, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Volume 9, No. 2, 2004, pp 92-96