Schulangst und Schulphobie

School anxiety is widespread and a real fear, such as fear of exams, embarrassment, injury, or punishment. Bullying and harassment are expressions of this atmosphere in the social environment of school. Additionally, modern children are plagued by exam and failure anxiety. The child with school phobia, however, experiences a different situation: it fears attending school, even though there is no objective reason for this fear. It often suffers from separation anxiety, which is associated with many psychological and physical symptoms. Both parents and teachers are drawn into the situation surrounding school anxieties. They must process these issues with their children or students. This is not always easy, and thus the experience and expertise of Hopf in the area of anxiety disorders provide a reliable foundation for understanding a complex psychological phenomenon in the social environment. Hopf succeeds in highlighting this in a clear manner.