[Cognitive behavior therapy treatment approaches in non-dyssocial school refusal: school phobia and school anxiety].

The study provides an overview of current cognitive-behavioral interventions to treat school-refusal in children and adolescents. First of all we define the problem area and describe the standard of knowledge about prevalence, course and risk factors. The main focus of our work is presented by psychotherapeutic treatments of school phobia and school anxiety. Apart from general treatment principles we give a survey of the most important behavioral therapeutic as well as cognitive-behavioral therapeutic treatments. In addition, we provide a detailed description of current research about efficacy. After all we characterize diagnostic, treatment planning and implementation.