school phobia

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• school phobia — noun a child s sudden fear of attending school • Hypernyms: ↑social phobia * * * school phobia noun An irrational fear of attending school • • • Main Entry: ↑school …   Useful english dictionary

• school phobia — deep chronic fear of going to school …   English contemporary dictionary

• School refusal — is a term originally used in Great Britain to describe 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… …   Wikipedia

• school refusal — (skool ruh.FYOOZ.uhl) n. An extreme fear of attending school. Example Citations: But now with child psychologists, school refusal has actually been coined as a medical term. The definition is what you would expect: the child is unreasonably… …   New words

• phobia — /foh bee euh/, n. a persistent, irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or situation that leads to a compelling desire to avoid it. [1780 90; extracted from nouns ending in PHOBIA] Syn. aversion, hatred. * * * Extreme and irrational fear… …   Universalium

• phobia — pho|bi|a [ˈfəubiə US ˈfou ] n [U and C] [Date: 1700 1800; : Modern Latin; Origin: Late Latin phobia, from Greek, from phobos fear ] a strong unreasonable fear of something phobia about ▪ Owen has a phobia about snakes. ▪ Some children suffer from …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• School corporal punishment — Legality of corporal punishment in the United States Legality of corporal punishment in Europe …   Wikipedia

• Школьная фобия (school phobia) — Ш. ф. обычно определяется как беспричинный страх перед школой и/или неуместная тревога, вызванная расставанием с домом. Ш. ф. присущи несколько характеристик: а) серьезные проблемы с посещением школы, приводящие к продолжительным периодам… …   Психологическая энциклопедия

• Phobia — A phobia (from the Greek: φόβος, Phóbos, meaning fear or morbid fear ) is a type of anxiety disorder, usually defined as a persistent fear of an object or situation in which the sufferer commits to great lengths in avoiding, typically… …   Wikipedia

• Phobia — An unreasonable sort of fear that can cause avoidance and panic. Phobias are a relatively common type of anxiety disorder. For example, extreme fear of spiders is called arachnophobia, and fear of being outside is known as agoraphobia. Phobias… …   Medical dictionary

• social phobia — noun any phobia (other than agoraphobia) associated with situations in which you are subject to criticism by others (as fear of eating in public or public speaking etc) • Hypernyms: ↑phobia, ↑phobic disorder, ↑phobic neurosis • Hyponyms:… …   Useful english dictionary