Eradicating fear of School: Didaskaleinophobia


Kid’s feelings are difficult to understand. They cannot express well their distress or unpleasant feelings. When they are prepared for school, they may develop some kind of fear.  Didaskaleinophobia is the fear of going to school. When kids suffer from Didaskaleinophobes, just thought of going to school can generate panic attack. Most psychologists state that such phobia is generally observed in preschool aged children of 4-6 years.



Grounds of developing school phobia:

Normally preschool children suffer from school phobia due to separation anxiety. They fear that they will be far from their mother after going to school. Sometimes, negative or traumatic event such as divorce of parents, death may lead to the fear of school.

Major symptoms of school phobia:

-       Kids suffering from phobia cry, scream, or have an anxiety attack at the thought of having to go to school. They pretend to be sick in order to evade school.

-      In Didaskaleinophobia, children show symptoms of dizziness, heart palpitations, dry mouth, excessive sweating, breathlessness, nausea, and full blown panic attack.

Didaskaleinophobia is a treatable ailment. Some medications can be prescribed by psychiatrists but these may have side effects. Parents need to make efforts to lessen this phobia. They seek help of doctor for thorough physical examination of the child to determine if he or she has a legitimate illness. Parents must listen to the child talk about school to identify any clues as to why he or she is reluctant to go school. Parents can talk to the child's teacher, school psychologist, and/or school counsellor for their child’s fear and jointly determine a possible cause or causes for school escaping. Parents must develop good plan of action to adapt the school and home environments to aid the child to cope up in school.

In recapping the strands, kids are gripped under school phobia because of insecure environment, bullying or changing to school. Children diagnosed with Didaskaleinophobia have difficulty in tolerating separation from reassuring presence of parents. This fear may be of anything from a scary school bus ride, bully, a particular teacher or class or feeling of anxiety that in school day may trigger. Basically, phobia is developed through a combination of external events such as traumatic happenings and internal predispositions.

 Important: This article is developed through environmental information, academic experience and/ or personal view of writer. Writer is not responsible for any disagreement

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