Educational Attainment in Adolescent School Phobia
IAN BERG M.D., M.R.C.P.E., M.R.C.Psych., D.P.M.1,
TONY COLLINS B.A., M.Sc.2,
RALPH McGUIRE M.A., B.SC., M.Ed.3, and
JOHN O'MELIA M.B., Ch.B., M.R.C.Psych.
1 Consultant Child Psychiatrist, Leeds Area Health Authority (Teaching) and Yorkshire Regional Health Authority; Clinical Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, University of Leeds; High Lands, Scalebor Park Hospital, Burley-in-Wharfedale, Yorkshire
2 Psychologist, St. Charles Youth Treatment Centre, Brentwood, Essex
3 Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, University of Edinburgh; 60 The Pleasance, Edinburgh, 8
The educational attainment of 100 school-phobic youngsters was compared to that of 100 other psychiatric patients, using the reading quotient as the main measure. Age and IQ were allowed for. RQs were, on average, higher in the school phobic group than in the other subjects, except in a small number of younger children of high IQ. Additional comparisons with another group of psychiatric patients and with the general population, using regression equations, failed to provide any evidence of poor educational attainment in school phobia.
Submitted on August 21, 1974
