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Meaning of "school phobia" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SCHOOL PHOBIA

school phobia  [skuːl ˈfəʊbɪə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SCHOOL PHOBIA

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conjunction
determiner
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School phobia is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SCHOOL PHOBIA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

School refusal

School refusal is the refusal to attend school due to emotional distress. School refusal differs from truancy in that children with school refusal feel anxiety or fear towards school, whereas truant children generally have no feelings of fear towards school, often feeling angry or bored with it instead. Children's Hospital Boston provides a chart showing the difference between the school refusal and truancy. While this was formerly called school phobia, the term school refusal was coined to reflect that children have problems attending school for a variety of different reasons and these reasons might not be the expression of a true phobia, such as separation or social anxiety.

Definition of school phobia in the English dictionary

The definition of school phobia in the dictionary is a fear of going to or returning to school.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SCHOOL PHOBIA


acrophobia
ˌækrəˈfəʊbɪə
aerophobia
ˌɛərəˈfəʊbɪə
agoraphobia
ˌæɡərəˈfəʊbɪə
arachnophobia
əˌræknəˈfəʊbɪə
claustrophobia
ˌklɔːstrəˈfəʊbɪə
emetophobia
ɪˌmetəˈfəʊbɪə
homophobia
ˌhəʊməʊˈfəʊbɪə
hydrophobia
ˌhaɪdrəˈfəʊbɪə
Islamophobia
ˌɪzlɑːməˈfəʊbɪə
monophobia
ˌmɒnəʊˈfəʊbɪə
neophobia
ˌniːəʊˈfəʊbɪə
nomophobia
ˌnəʊməʊˈfəʊbɪə
nyctophobia
ˌnɪktəʊˈfəʊbɪə
phobia
ˈfəʊbɪə
phonophobia
ˌfəʊnəʊˈfəʊbɪə
photophobia
ˌfəʊtəʊˈfəʊbɪə
scopophobia
ˌskɒpəˈfəʊbɪə
technophobia
ˌtɛknəʊˈfəʊbɪə
triskaidekaphobia
ˌtrɪskaɪˌdɛkəˈfəʊbɪə
xenophobia
ˌzɛnəˈfəʊbɪə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SCHOOL PHOBIA

school library
school life
school lunch
school meal
school medical officer
school milk
school night
school of arts
school of motoring
school outing
school playground
school prawn
school record
school report
school run
school shark
school ship
school song
school superintendent
school teaching

WORDS THAT END LIKE SCHOOL PHOBIA

aichmophobia
ailurophobia
algophobia
anglophobia
anthropophobia
aquaphobia
astraphobia
astrophobia
autophobia
gynophobia
mysophobia
necrophobia
ornithophobia
panophobia
pyrophobia
Russophobia
sitophobia
social phobia
thanatophobia
Zenobia
zoophobia

Synonyms and antonyms of school phobia in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «school phobia» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SCHOOL PHOBIA

Find out the translation of school phobia to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of school phobia from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «school phobia» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

学校恐惧症
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

fobia a la escuela
570 millions of speakers

English

school phobia
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

स्कूल भय
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

رهاب المدرسة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

школа фобии
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

fobia escolar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

স্কুল ফোবিয়া
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

phobie scolaire
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Fobia sekolah
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Schulphobie
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

学校恐怖症
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

학교 공포증
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sekolah phobia
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ám ảnh nhà trường
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பள்ளி பயம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शाळेची भीती
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Okul fobisi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

fobia della scuola
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

szkoła fobia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

школа фобії
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

fobie școală
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σχολική φοβία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

skoolfobia
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

skola fobi
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

skole fobi
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of school phobia

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SCHOOL PHOBIA»

The term «school phobia» is normally little used and occupies the 139.153 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SCHOOL PHOBIA» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «school phobia» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «school phobia» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about school phobia

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SCHOOL PHOBIA»

Discover the use of school phobia in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to school phobia and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
School Phobia, Panic Attacks, and Anxiety in Children
Looks at a variety of anxiety disorders affecting children, including panic attacks, school phobia, and separation anxiety, along with informaiton on current therapies, medication, and coping mechanisms.
Márianna Csóti, 2003
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Encyclopedia of Special Education
The causes of school phobia have been couched in psychoanalytic, psychodynamic, and social learning theory terms. The psychoanalytic focus frames school phobia within a mutually dependent and hostile parent-child relationship.
Cecil R. Reynolds, Elaine Fletcher-Janzen, 2007
3
Exceptional Children: Biological and Psychological Perspectives
SCHOOL PHOBIA: RAPID TREATMENT OF FIFTY CASES 1 WALLACE A. KENNEDY The Human Development Clinic of Florida State University has determined that a differential diagnosis between 2 types of school phobia can be made on ...
James R. Frazier, Dianne M. Frazier, 1974
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Handbook of Social and Evaluation Anxiety
Introduction Attempts to both understand and modify the fears and phobias of children have a long and rich history in clinical psychology and psychiatry (Freud 1909/1963; Hall, 1897; Jones, 1924; Watson & Rayner, 1920). School phobia, the ...
H. Leitenberg, 1990
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Handbook of Conceptualization and Treatment of Child ...
Wendy K. Silverman and Delight Hicks Carmichael Description of the Disorder Introduction School phobia is frequently overlooked in edited volumes of child psychopathol- ogy and its treatment. Although we are not entirely certain why this  ...
Helen Orvaschel, Jan Faust, Michel Hersen, 2001
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EMDR and The Art of Psychotherapy With Children
Case Study: School Phobia For example, I (R.T.) worked with an 8-year-old girl, Ellen, who initially was brought to therapy for treatment of school phobia. During Client History and Treatment Planning, neither the child nor her mother were able  ...
Robbie Adler-Tapia PhD, Carolyn Settle MSW, 2008
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Practitioner’s Guide to Psychoactive Drugs for Children and ...
3 The major changes from DSM-III-R to DSM-IV are the inclusion of overanxious disorder of childhood under generalized anxiety disorder, the elimination of school phobia, which appears now to be more generally subsumed under separation ...
John Scott Werry, Michael G. Aman, 1999
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All Children Successful: Real Answers for Helping At-risk ...
It is estimated that school phobia occurs in three to seventeen of 1000 school children, with percentages varying according to the ages of the children sampled (Kennedy, 1965). Concentration of incidences of school phobia seems to occur at  ...
Vito Germinario, Janet Cervalli, Evelyn Hunt Ogden, 1992
9
Troubling Children: Studies of Children and Social Problems
From School Phobia to School Refusal School phobia was described first by an American psychiatrist, A. M. Johnson. According to Johnson, school phobia is caused by the child's separation anxiety from the mother. Studies of school phobia ...
Joel Best
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Unwillingly to School
... long-standing interest in psychiatric disorders and symptoms associated with school attendance problems (see Atkinson et al, l985; Hersov, l985; Berg, l99l, l992), dating at least from l932 when what came to be called school phobia was first ...
Ian Berg, Jean Patricia Nursten, 1996

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SCHOOL PHOBIA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term school phobia is used in the context of the following news items.
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“If I were education secretary I would…”
Since the advent of high-stakes testing, many schools have become depressing places ... Young children are developing school phobia in epic numbers and are ... «Schools Week, Mar 15»
2
Summer Garcia, with her mum Anni, developed a fear of going to …
summer garcia, school phobia ... "On my first day of high school I had a panic attack in a science class and became incredibly anxious," says Summer, 20, from ... «Express.co.uk, May 14»
3
School refusal and kids: What can you do?
School refusal” refers to repeated instances of absenteeism for what are ... School refusal used to be termed “school phobia,” but that's a misnomer – there are ... «Philly.com, Nov 13»
4
Common Core, education's front-end alignment
Hamilton Avenue School kindergarten teacher Lisa Cutler compares the .... to do, and what it's leading to is a lot of frustration and school phobia and a feeling as ... «Ct Post, Oct 13»
5
ITV This Morning: My child has school phobia
Also on the programme was psychologist Dr Nigel Blagg, an expert on school phobia and its treatment, who explained how the phobia can be beaten. «Yahoo! TV UK, Sep 13»
6
My son has school phobia
He is dyslexic, has sensory processing disorder, and the worst part is now he also has school phobia. The school we had him at refused to believe he was ... «Stuff.co.nz, Jul 13»
7
Is your child suffering from school phobia?
Many children don't like going to school - but that's very different from having a school phobia. New research suggests that one in five UK children suffer from ... «BT.com, Jul 13»
8
Margaret Lavin: School phobia a real and growing issue
Ever hear of school phobia? Me neither. It sounds like a clever attempt to get out of gym class. The truth, however, is that it's a very real problem for many kids, ... «San mateo county times, Jun 13»
9
One fifth of British children suffer from 'school phobia' but parents are …
More than a third of children with school phobia refused to leave the house on school mornings, and one-in-four would not walk through the school gates. «Daily Mail, Feb 13»
10
Is your kid suffering from school phobia?
As parents, you might be rushing to your family physician not knowing that these might just be symptoms of school phobia (school refusal). Psychiatrists in the ... «Times of India, Aug 10»

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« EDUCALINGO. School phobia [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/school-phobia>. May 2024 ».
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