Academic Journal
School absenteeism for children exposed to maternal incarceration and other adversities
| العنوان: | School absenteeism for children exposed to maternal incarceration and other adversities |
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| المؤلفون: | Bell, MF, Spittal, MJ, Segal, L, Dennison, S, Kinner, SA, Dawe, S, Preen, DB |
| بيانات النشر: | Elsevier |
| سنة النشر: | 2024 |
| المجموعة: | Griffith University: Griffith Research Online |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Social work, Sociology |
| الوصف: | Regular school attendance is important for the development of academic and social skills (Gottfried, 2014), and engagement and active participation in education is predictive of a range of positive life outcomes (Allison et al., 2019, Kearney, 2016). Conversely, children with school attendance problems are at increased risk of adverse outcomes. Although there is no single definition of problematic absenteeism in the literature (Birioukov, 2016, Heyne and Melvin, 2019, Melvin et al., 2019, Skedgell and Kearney, 2018), it generally refers to absence from school for an extended period and includes school refusal, school withdrawal, truancy, and school exclusions (Heyne & Melvin, 2019). In Australia, as in other jurisdictions (Skedgell & Kearney, 2018), a threshold of 90% is used to define “regular” attendance, with anything less than 90% attendance considered to indicate school attendance problems (Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority, 2020). There are multiple reasons why children may be absent from school, including illness, emotional difficulties, transportation issues, reduced school engagement, parental attitudes, peer problems, and delinquency (Birioukov, 2016, Melvin et al., 2019), and an arbitrary cut-off, such as 90% attendance, does not capture the differences in predictors or outcomes associated with absenteeism (Heyne & Melvin, 2019). Nevertheless, a threshold for categorising absenteeism as problematic is useful for identifying children requiring additional supports to increase their school attendance, regardless of the causes for their absenteeism (Skedgell & Kearney, 2018). ; Full Text |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| اللغة: | English |
| Relation: | Children and Youth Services Review; Bell, MF; Spittal, MJ; Segal, L; Dennison, S; Kinner, SA; Dawe, S; Preen, DB, School absenteeism for children exposed to maternal incarceration and other adversities, Children and Youth Services Review, 2024, 166, pp. 108007; https://hdl.handle.net/10072/434107 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.108007 |
| الاتاحة: | https://hdl.handle.net/10072/434107 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.108007 |
| Rights: | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ; © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). ; open access |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.B8D3BB29 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.108007 |
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