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School attendance problems and absenteeism as early warning signals: review and implications for health-based protocols and school-based practices

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Kearney, Christopher A., Dupont, Randolph, Fensken, Michael, Gonzálvez, Carolina·2023·Frontiers in Education

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School attendance has been historically linked to healthy states of functioning, whereas school attendance problems/absenteeism have been historically linked to unhealthy states of functioning. Indeed, school attendance and its problems are deeply embedded within multiple domains of functioning at both analytic and systemic levels. This article utilizes complex systems theory and the concept of early warning signals to illustrate how changes in school attendance could indicate instability and perhaps sudden transitions to unhealthy states of functioning for students, families, schools, and communities. The article reviews how school attendance problems/absenteeism intersect with functioning at analytic (academic, social–emotional, mental health, physical health, family) and systemic (school and community) levels. The article also includes recommendations for how viewing changes in school attendance as early warning signals could improve health-based protocols (enhancing access to care; integrating systems of care) and school-based practices (developing multi-tiered systems of support models and community asset maps; modifying educational and policy perspectives). A primary theme involves more streamlined efforts to identify movement from healthy to unhealthy states among individuals to assign proactive and personalized treatment avenues (health-based protocols) and among systems to enact needed intervention supports and reforms (school-based practices).

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“At an analytic level, school attendance has been generally linked to student benefits and SAPs/absenteeism have been generally linked to student impairments across critical domains of functioning (e.g., academic, social–emotional, mental health, physical health, family) (Ansari and Pianta, 2019).”
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Can a Positive School Climate Promote Student Attendance? Evidence From New York City
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A patchwork of platforms: mapping data infrastructures in schools
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The role of parental self-efficacy in adolescent school-refusal.
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Identifying Risk Profiles of School Refusal Behavior: Differences in Social Anxiety and Family Functioning Among Spanish Adolescents
Gonzálvez, C., Díaz-Herrero, Á., Sanmartín, R., Vicent, M., Sánchez, A. M. P., & García-Fernández, J. M. (2019) · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · doi:10.3390/ijerph16193731 · Cited by 74
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Absenteeism in the First Decade of Education Forecasts Civic Engagement and Educational and Socioeconomic Prospects in Young Adulthood
Ansari, A., Hofkens, T. L., & Pianta, R. C. (2020) · Journal of Youth and Adolescence · doi:10.1007/s10964-020-01272-4 · Cited by 72 · cited 1×
“…departure from school prior to completion) is associated with long-term impairments into adulthood, including greater difficulties across economic, health, interpersonal, legal, occupational, and psychiatric domains (Lansford et al., 2016; Rocque et al., 2017; Ansari et al., 2020; Rumberger, 2020).”
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Beyond the excused/unexcused absence binary: classifying absenteeism through a voluntary/involuntary absence framework
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Systematic and evaluative review of school climate instruments for students, teachers, and parents
Gonzálvez, C., Bacon, V. R., & Kearney, C. A. (2022) · Psychology in the Schools · doi:10.1002/pits.22838 · Cited by 54
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Social Skills and Social Acceptance in Children with Anxiety Disorders
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Developing an online early detection system for school attendance problems: results from a research-community partnership
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Relationship between school refusal behavior and social functioning: a cluster analysis approach
Gonzálvez, C., Inglés, C. J., Kearney, C. A., Sanmartín, R., Vicent, M., & García-Fernández, J. M. (2019) · European Journal of Education and Psychology · doi:10.30552/ejep.v12i1.238 · Cited by 49
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Is Bullying Associated with Emerging School Refusal in Autistic Boys?
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Using data and the human touch: evaluating the NYC inter-agency campaign to reduce chronic absenteeism
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Examining the Educational Gap for Children with ADHD and Subthreshold ADHD
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Dialectical Behavior Therapy for School Refusal: Treatment Development and Incorporation of Web-Based Coaching
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School climate and student-based contextual learning factors as predictors of school absenteeism severity at multiple levels via CHAID analysis
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Authors: Kearney, C. A., Dupont, R., Fensken, M., & Gonzálvez, C.
Affiliations: University of Nevada, Las Vegas (US)
University of Alicante (ES)
Corresponding author: Kearney, Christopher A.
ORCID: Kearney, Christopher A.
Fensken, Michael
Gonzálvez, Carolina
Venue: Frontiers in Education
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Published: 2023-08-30
Volume: 8
ISSN: 2504-284X (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.3389/feduc.2023.1253595
OpenAlex: W4386330902
Cited by: 71
References: 233
Citations by year: 2026: 42 · 2025: 18 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 2
FWCI: 51.78
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: gold
doi.org
Licence: cc-by
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (vor)
Locations: Frontiers in Education (publishedVersion, cc-by)
RUA, Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Alicante (Universidad de Alicante) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Funders: Universidad de Alicante
Topics: Social Sciences › Education › Youth Substance Use and School Attendance
Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › School Health and Nursing Education
Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Workplace Health and Well-being
Keywords: school attendance, absenteeism, early warning indicators, complexity theory, mental health, social-emotional functioning, family functioning, school-based practice, multi-tiered systems of support, community asset mapping, systems of care, health care access, education policy

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