Summer Garcia, with her mum Anni, ... While school phobia is an anxiety disorder characterised by an intense fear of going to school that psychiatrists have recognised since the 1960s, ...

Those carefree days of summer are over, and your child is balking because he must return to school (not unlike a parent who returns to work after an annual vacation).

At some point, most of us have hidden behind our parents at the classroom door. Rebecca Maykish, now 17, remembers her mother prying her off a banister at the age of five. But for Maykish, of ...

'School Phobia' Plunges Family Into Misery Teenager Rebecca Maykish suffers from such severe anxiety in classrooms that she stopped attending ... summer camp, that was $5,000. They would pay that ...