To celebrate the Child and Adolescent Mental Health journal’s 25th anniversary, we have released the 25 top cited articles of all time*! All papers are freely available online for you to read.
Number 16 is…
Adolescent school absenteeism: modelling social and individual risk factors
Jo Magne, Ingul Christian A. Klöckner, Wendy K. Silverman, Hans M. Nordahl
First Published: 29 June 2011
Key Practitioner Message:
- School absenteeism has been associated with many social, contextual and psychiatric risk factors and is a major predictor of adult psychosocial problems
- Risk factors appear to act differently when grouped as opposed to solitary
- Externalising problems and family work and health are more important than internalising problems in predicting school absenteeism
- The number of risk factors or balance between risk and protective factors are more important than single factors in predicting school absenteeism
- Clinically this calls for broad assessments and individually tailored interventions
*as of December 2019
