Background Increasing rates of mental health problems among adolescents are of concern.
Teens who are most in need of mental health attention are reluctant to seek help. A better …

School attendance problems (SAPs) are heterogeneous with respect to etiology and
presentation. The long history of conceptualizing SAPs has led to a vast array of terms and …

School attendance and completion are significant indicators of health and positive
psychosocial development in children and adolescents. School attendance and completion …

School dropout has been extensively studied in the literature as a correlate of negative life
outcomes. A precursor to school dropout is truancy, the unexcused or illegitimate student …

Negative interactions with the legal system can inform adolescents' relationships with
schools. The present daily-diary study examined 13,545 daily survey assessments from 387 …

Among juvenile status offenses, truancy represents the largest share of juvenile court
caseloads. As a marker of risk, truancy is important because of its associations with school …

There is no shortage of definitions for truancy. One state may house many different
definitions and there are a variety of challenges arising from this fact. One of the most …

Objective Truancy in adolescence is related to detrimental developmental outcomes over
the life-course, including a greater risk for delinquency during adolescence and offending in …

We examined the prevalence and evaluated the associated risk and protective factors of
adolescent school truancy through sex-stratified models by analysing 7562 adolescent data …

Mirroring trends in the legal system, discipline within education has adopted zero-tolerance
policies in an attempt to curb undesired behaviors in school. K–12 schools have expanded …