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A Study on the Follow Up of School Refusal:
Relationship between Parents' Expectation and Process of the Child's School Refusal
1994 Volume 8 Issue 1 Pages 13-23
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1994 Volume 8 Issue 1 Pages 13-23
The purpose of this paper is to report the follow-up of the school refusal children. In addition to that, attitudinal change of parents was described.
Semistructured interview was made on 18 parents and 26 children of school refusal.
One of the factors which could infulence the follow-up of the school refusal children was changes within the family. In this paper, it was focused on the parents' expectation and its change and the relationship with the process of child’s school refusal.
It was found that there were high “operational expectation” and low “operational expectation” parents. Follow-up process looked good for child with parents whose “operational expectation” was high.
If parents can focus on the school refusal as a main problem of the child, they expressed “operational expectation”, and their ability to assist the growth of the child was high.
“Operational expectation” was find to be an important concept in regards to follow-up process of school refusal children.
