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Academic Underachievement and School Refusal

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Handbook of Adolescent Health Risk Behavior

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That the spectrum of behaviors from subtle academic underachievement to blatant school refusal and drop-out are considered serious health risks in adolescence is no surprise to concerned parents, teachers, professionals, and the American public at the end of the 20th century. This century was proclaimed to be “The Century of the Child” in the first White House Conference on Children in 1909 (Beck, 1974), wherein the national consciousness and governmental policy was to be mobilized to improve the care, education, and welfare of the nation’s children.

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  1. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, 94143, USA

    John B. Sikorski

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  1. Departments of Health Behavior and Pediatrics, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, USA

    Ralph J. DiClemente Ph.D.

  2. Department of Public Health Sciences, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA

    William B. Hansen Ph.D.

  3. Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA

    Lynn E. Ponton Ph.D.

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Sikorski, J.B. (1996). Academic Underachievement and School Refusal. In: DiClemente, R.J., Hansen, W.B., Ponton, L.E. (eds) Handbook of Adolescent Health Risk Behavior. Issues in Clinical Child Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0203-0_15

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