Skill Development: School Refusal
10 September 2025, 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm
Presented by Associate Professor Glenn Melvin
This is a 2 hour workshop delivered online via Zoom live webinar.
$60 (inc. GST): Other professionals
$30 (inc. GST): Price for Victorian & Tasmania CYMHS/CAMHS/ICYMHS, Take Two, Orygen, Headspace and ACCHO availability.
Please read our Cancellation and Attendance policy before booking.
Who is the training for?
This training workshop is designed for psychologists, speech pathologists, social workers, occupational therapists, mental health nurses, teachers, headspace clinicians, paediatricians, child & adolescent psychiatrists & trainees.
Who provides the training?
Associate Professor Glenn Melvin, is an experienced clinical psychologist and researcher with interests in anxiety, depression and school refusal in children and young people. He has published in this area and leads groups of international researchers exploring school attendance and difficulties with it. Glenn also works actively as a clinician – combining his valuable research knowledge with his knowledge of how it applies in practice.
What does the training include?
School attendance has been described as a key benchmark of adaptive functioning in children and adolescence. While school refusal is often considered a semi-emergency in psychiatric settings given the lasting impact of persistent non-attendance from school.
In this seminar, school refusal will be defined and compared and contrasted with truancy, school withdrawal and school exclusion; and risk factors for school refusal will be summarised.
The assessment of school refusal is of importance in planning the correct treatment approach. Assessment tools will be presented, together with a discussion of assessment processes and issues. Consideration will also be given to an empirically based approach to intervention.
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