Japan

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• Facilitator training course for CBT-P/NA (cognitive behavioral therapy for parenting with non-attendance problems), hosted by Dr. Noriko Minamitani, is held once or twice a year at Chiba University in Chiba. The course is open to school counsellors, school social workers and school nurses. To find out more about the training course, please contact Dr. Noriko Minamitani; (Language: Japanese or English)
• Shirokanedai workshop, hosted by Dr. Masahiko Ono (Meijigakuin University), is held twice a year at Meiji Gakuin University in Tokyo. The aim of the workshop is to share knowledge about effective intervention for school attendance problems. The workshop is open to people with an interest in school attendance problems. School teachers, the parents of school-refusing youth, politicians, lawyers, and university students have participated in the workshop. In the workshop, participants present case studies of intervention for school attendance problems. To find out more about the workshop please contact the chair of the workshop, Dr. Masahiko Ono;  (Language: Japanese)
• The Workshop for Supporting Youths to Return to School (Hina no kai) is held three or four times a year in Fukuyama City, Hiroshima. The key aim is to share knowledge of a school-based team approach to school-refusing youth. The group is open to all school teachers and parents with an interest in school refusal. The meeting focuses on a practical approach for school return, and participants present and discuss case studies. To find out more about the workshop program please contact LIB Psychoeducation Research Institution in Fukuyama City, Hiroshima (Dr. Kuniko Sakurai). (Language: Japanese)

• 2022 November 9, December 14: Dr. Kuniko Sakurai (LIB Psychoeducation Research Institution) will provide the workshop for supporting youths to return to school (Hina no kai) in Fukuyama City Hiroshima. To find out more about the workshop program please contact LIB Psychoeducation Research Institution in Fukuyama City, Hiroshima (Dr. Kuniko Sakurai).
• 2023 January, 6: Naoki Maeda (Kyushu University of Health and Welfare) will provide the workshop entitled “School attendance problems in junior high school” to schoolteachers in Nobeoka City, Miyazaki. The aims of the workshop were to share the information about the current situation of school attendance problems. To find out more about the workshop please contact Naoki Maeda, (Language: Japanese or English)

2022

• 2022 September 30-October 2: The 48^th Congress of Japanese Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies took place in Miyazaki City.
• 2022 September 30-October 2: A symposium entitled “The current CBT approach towards school attendance problems: How we should tackle an increasing the number of students with SAPs” in the 48^th Congress of Japanese Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. To find out more about the workshop please contact Masahiko Ono (language: Japanese)
• 2022 October 2: A symposium entitled “Professor Junichi Sonoda, memorial symposium in the 48^th Congress of Japanese Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. To find out more about the workshop please contact Naoki Maeda (Language: Japanese or English)
• 2022 September 30: Dr. Masahiko Ono provided a workshop entitled “A comprehensive approach for school refusal” in the 48^th Congress of Japanese Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. To find out more about the workshop please contact Masahiko Ono (language: Japanese)
• 2022 August 22: Naoki Maeda (Kyushu University of Health and Welfare) provided the workshop entitled “School attendance problems in junior high school” to schoolteachers in Hyuga City, Miyazaki. The aims of the workshop were to share the information about the current situation of school attendance problems. To find out more about the workshop please contact Naoki Maeda (Language: Japanese or English)
• 2022 July 23: Mr. Yoshinori Yano (Skushin Gakuein University) provided the workshop entitled “Behavioral therapy-based school refusal behavior support” to Tochigi Rengou Kyoikukai in Tochigi. To find out more about the workshop please contact Yoshinori Yano (Language: Japanese or English).
• 2022 January 12: Naoki Maeda (Kyushu University of Health and Welfare) provided the workshop entitled “School attendance problems in junior high school” to school principals of compulsory education schools in Kobayashi City Miyazaki. The aims of the workshop are to share the information about the current situation of school attendance problems. To find out more about the workshop please contact Naoki Maeda (Language: Japanese or English).

2021

• 2021 December 22: Naoki Maeda (Kyushu University of Health and Welfare) provided the workshop entitled “School attendance problems in junior high school” to schoolteachers at Totoro Junior School in Nobeoka City Miyazaki. The aims of the workshop are to share the information about the current situation of school attendance problems. To find out more about the workshop please contact Naoki Maeda (Language: Japanese or English)
• 2021 October 10 and November 7: The 47^th Congress of Japanese Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies took place online video streaming. To find out more about the congress, please visit the web site; Language: Japanese)
• 2021 September 22: Naoki Maeda (Kyushu University of Health and Welfare) provided the workshop entitled “School attendance problems in junior high school” to schoolteachers at Tomi Junior School in Nobeoka City Miyazaki. The aims of the workshop were to share the information about the current situation of school attendance problems. To find out more about the workshop please contact Naoki Maeda (Language: Japanese or English)

2020

• 2020 September 11 and September 30: The 46^th Congress of Japanese Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies took place online video streaming. To find out more about the congress, please visit the web site; (Language: Japanese)
• 2020, September 11 and September 30: A workshop entitled “School refusal” in the 46^th Congress of Japanese Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. To find out more about the workshop please contact Masahiko Ono (language: Japanese)
• 2020, June 17: Naoki Maeda (Kyushu University of Health and Welfare) provided the workshop entitled “Effective support for children based on behavioural data” to schoolteachers at Tomi Elementary School in Nobeoka City Miyazaki. The aims of the workshop were to understand the basic behavioural approach for children’s maladaptive behaviors at school. To find out more about the workshop please contact Naoki Maeda (Language: Japanese or English)
• 2020, May 14: Naoki Maeda (Kyushu University of Health and Welfare) provided the workshop entitled “The current situation of school attendance problems (SAPs) and its measures” to schoolteachers at Totoro Junior High School in Nobeoka City Miyazaki. The aims of the workshop were to provide the information of SAP in compulsory schools in Japan and effective approaches based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. To find out more about the workshop please contact Naoki Maeda (Language: Japanese or English)
• 2020, February 1: The workshop entitled “Practice of support for parents and students on 5W1H methods” for schoolteachers working at Japanese compulsory schools took place in Fukuyama City, Hiroshima. The workshop is hosted by LIB Psychoeducation Research Institution. The aims of the workshop were to understand a variety of youths’ problems and seek solutions. To find out more about the workshop, please contact LIB Psychoeducation Research Institution (Dr. Kuniko Sakurai)

2019

• 2019, December 21: The workshop entitled “Group work based on CBT for parents of school-refusers” for clinical psychologists was provided by Dr. Minamitani in Myougadani, Tokyo. To find out more about the workshop, please contact Dr. Noriko Minamitani. 
• 2019, November 9: The workshop entitled “The way of returning to school for SAP students” for school teachers working at Japanese compulsory schools took place in Fukuyama City, Hiroshima. The workshop was hosted by LIB Psychoeducation Research Institution. The aims of the workshop are to understand a variety of youths’ problems and seek solutions. To find out more about the workshop, please contact LIB Psychoeducation Research Institution (Dr. Kuniko Sakurai). 
• 2019, October 5-6 and Novmber 9-10: Dr. Noriko Minamitani provided the facilitator training course for CBT-P/NA (cognitive behavioral therapy for parenting with non-attendance problems) in Kashiwa City, Chiba. The course was open to school counsellors, school social workers and school nurses. To find out more about the training course, please contact Dr. Noriko Minamitani. (Language: Japanese or English)
• 2019, September 1: Ms. Mami Someya (Nobeoka hospital) provided a case report entitled “Behavioural consultation for parents of students with school attendance problem: Support for the father allowing the adolescent not to attend school” in a poster session of the 45th Congress of Japanese Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. To find out more about the presentation please contact Naoki Maeda. (Language: Japanese or English)
• 2019, September 1: A symposium entitled “Continuity and change in cognitive behavioral therapy” in the 45th Congress of Japanese Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. To find out more about the symposium please contact Dr. Masahiko Ono. (Language: Japanese)
• 2019, September 1: Naoki Maeda (Kyushu University of Health and Welfare) provided a case report entitled “Behavioural consultation for parents of students with school attendance problem (SAP)” in a poster session of the 45th Congress of Japanese Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. To find out more about the presentation please contact Naoki Maeda. (Language: Japanese or English)
• 2019, August 31: Dr. Noriko Minamitani provided an oral presentation entitled “A case of group-based CBT program for parents of school-refusing youth: Assertion training for parental role” in the 19th Annual Convention of the Japanese Association for Cognitive Therapy in Tokyo. To find out more about the presentation please contact Dr. Noriko Minamitani. (Language: Japanese or English)
• 2019 August 30: Dr. Masahiko Ono provided a workshop entitled “Comprehensive approach to school attendance problem” in a work shop session of the 45th Congress of Japanese Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. To find out more about the workshop please contact Dr. Masahiko Ono. (Language: Japanese)
• 2019 August 30 and September 1: The 45th Congress of Japanese Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, entitled “CBT in The New Era” took place in Nagoya, Japan. To find out more about the congress, please visit the web site. (Language: Japanese)
• 2019, July 24: Naoki Maeda (Kyushu University of Health and Welfare) will provide a lecture entitled “Behavioural approach to maladaptive child behaviour” for psychotherapists working at child psychotherapy institutions in the national workshop hosted by The National Council for Child Psychotherapy Institution in Hyuga City, Miyazaki. To find out more about the lecture please contact Naoki Maeda (Language: Japanese)
• 2019, May 12: Dr. Masahiko Ono (Meijigakuin University) provided a workshop entitled “Cognitive behavioural approach aiming for zero school nonattendance students” for cognitive behavioural professionals at Cognitive behavioural seminar in Nagoya City. To find out more about the lecture please contact Dr. Masahiko Ono; onom@psy.meijigakuin.ac.jp (language: Japanese)

2018

• 2018, December 12 and 26: A workshop for school teachers working at Japanese compulsory schools took place in Fukuyama City, Hiroshima. The workshops were hosted by LIB Psychoeducation Research Institution. To find out more about the workshop, please contact LIB Psychoeducation Research Institution (Dr. Kuniko Sakurai). http://libshinri.sunnyday.jp/hina_gakushu.html (Language: Japanese)   
• 2018, November 22: The youth support consultation centre, Wakaba, held a symposium in Miyazaki City. To find out more about the symposium, please contact Naoki Maeda; naoki225@phoenix.ac.jp (Language: Japanese)
• 2018, October, 26: Dr. Masahiko Ono (Meijigakuin University) provided a workshop entitled “Comprehensive support for school nonattendance youth with/without developmental disorders to be able to adapt to the school environment” for cognitive behavioural professionals at the 44th Japanese Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. Contact: onom@psy.meijigakuin.ac.jp

2017

• 2017, November: The youth support consultation centre (Wakaba) in Miyazaki city provided a lecture and panel discussion about school refusal and Hikikomori. There were 150 participants who were teachers, parents of school refusers and Hikikomori, police, public employees and journalists. Contact: Naoki Maeda. Naoki225@phoenix.ac.jp
• 2017: Dr. Shinichi Ishikawa (Doshisha University) provided a lecture entitled “School-based cognitive behavioural therapy for youths” in Wakayama. Contact: ishinn@mail.doshisha.ac.jp
• 2017: Dr. Shinichi Ishikawa (Doshisha University) provided a lecture entitled “Psychosocial approach to youth with anxiety disorders: The practice of cognitive behavioural approach” to school teachers in Shiga. Contact: ishinn@mail.doshisha.ac.jp

2022

• Yano, Y. (2022). Present situations and future prospects of behavioral approaches to school refusal behavior in Japan. Community Caring, 46, 80–83. Contact: Yoshinori Yano (Language: Japanese)
• Esumi, S. (2022). The functions of in-school adaptation assistance classes in supporting school non-attendance: Review of literature and administrative materials. Annual Report of Japanese Association of School Psychologists, 14, 67–77. Contact: Shuko Esumi (Language: Japanese)
• Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology-Japan. (2022). Jidouseito no mondaikoudou futoukoutou seitoshidoujou no shokadai ni kansuru chousa (Research on issues over teacher guidance toward student’s misbehavior in 2021). Tokyo. (in Japanese)
• Ono, M., & Esumi, S. (2022). Re-shaping and maintenance of school attending behavior of a junior high school student: A comprehensive support approach. Japanese Journal of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, 48, 205–216, https://doi.org/10.24468/jjbct.20-042 Contact: Masahiko Ono (Language: Japanese)

2021

• Ono, M. et al (2021). Comprehensive support for junior high school student with selective mutism: Using integrated behavior assessment. Japanese Journal of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, 47(3), 307–318. Contact: Masahiko Ono. 
• Maeda, N., & Inoue, R. (2021). An approach for school counselors: Behavioral consultation with parents of youth with school attendance problems. Journal of Education and Training Studies, 9(8), 31-39, http://dx.doi.org/10.11114/jets.v9i8.5299 Contact: Naoki Maeda.

2020

• Yamada, T., & Fujiii, Y. (2020). The relationship between school refusal behavior and parental psychological flexibility. Journal of School Mental Health, 23(2), 174-182. DOI: 10.24503/jasmh.23.2_174　Contact: Tatsuto Yamada
• Hatada, S., & Maeda, N. (2020). Psychotherapy for recovering social function to intractable cases of mental disorder with symptoms of depression: An integrated approach of Morita therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy using active counseling. Japanese Journal of Morita Therapy, 31, 111-120. (Language: Japanese) Contact: Naoki Maeda.
• Ishikawa, S. & Ono, M. (2020). Application of cognitive behavioral therapies in in educational setting. Japanese Journal of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, 46, 99-110. (Language: Japanese) Contact: Dr. Masahiko Ono.
• Takahashi, Y., & Minamitani, N. (2020). The trial report of a cognitive behavior therapy program for parents of junior high students exhibiting school refusal. Departmental Bulletin Paper, Aichi University of Education, 20-26. (Language: Japanese) Contact: Dr. Noriko Minamitani.

2019

• Hatada, S., Maeda, N., & Yoshimuta, N. (2019). A survey on actual conditions of employment and daily life in patients with mental disorder−Retrospective study focusing on mood and neurotic disorders of labor generations−. Progress in Social Welfare Research, 14, 45–53. Contact: Naoki Maeda. 
• Kato, S., & Ishikawa, S. (2019). Cognitive behavioral therapy for first grader showing symptoms of “toukoushiburi” school non-attendance. Japanese Journal of Cognitive Therapy, 12, 141–151. Contact: Dr. Shinichi Ishikawa.
• Maeda, N. (2019). Psychological assessment in school settings. In Japanese Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (Ed.). Encyclopedia of cognitive behavior therapy (pp. 230-231). (Language: Japanese) Contact: Naoki Maeda.
• Maeda, N., & Hatada, S. (2019). The school attendance problem in Japanese compulsory education: The case of a public junior high school. European Journal of Education and Psychology, 12, 63–75. Contact: Naoki Maeda.
• Maeda, N., & Heyne, D. (2019). Rapid return for school refusal: A school-based approach applied with Japanese adolescents. Frontiers in Psychology. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02862 Contact: Naoki Maeda. 
• Ono, M. (2019). School refusal. In Japanese Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (Ed.). Encyclopedia of cognitive behavior therapy (pp. 170–171). Contact: Dr. Masahiko Ono.
• Ono, M. (2019). Prevention and intervention of school refusal. In Japanese Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (Ed.). Encyclopedia of cognitive behavior therapy (pp. 420–423). Contact: Dr. Masahiko Ono.
• Ono, M., & Sato, R. (2019). Shaping ADHD suspected child with intermittent school attendance accompanying mother to continuous classroom attendance by comprehensive support approach− With assessment of school and home condition on attending school. The Japanese Journal of The Study of Guidance and Counseling, 1, 64–74. Contact: Dr. Masahiko Ono.

2018

• Terada, M. (2018). Futoukou no kodomo no rikai to shien: Gakkou de ima dekiru kotoha nanika [Understanding of and support for school non-attendance children: What school can do for it]. Kyoto: Nakanishiya. (Language: Japanese) Contact: Professor Michio Terada.
• Horiguchi S. (2018). Are children who do not go to school “bad”, “sick” or “happy”?: Shifting interpretations of long-term school non-attendance in post-war Japan. In Yonezawa A., Kitamura Y., Yamamoto B., et al. (eds.). Japanese Education in a Global Age. Sociological Reflections and Future Directions. (pp. 117–136) Singapore: Springer. (Language: English) Contact: Sachiko Horiguchi. 
• Minamitani, N., & Matsumoto, Y. (2018). Developmental trial of a cognitive behavior therapy program for parents of junior high school students exhibiting school refusal: Evidence based on a small sample from a metropolitan area in Japan. School health, 14, 1–11. contact Dr. Noriko Minamitani
• Atsurou Yamada, Mika Kyo, Masako Suzuki (Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences Department of Psychiatry) provided a case report entitled “A case of the process to return to junior high school student who caused non-attendance school from sibling conflict”in oral presentation of the 5th Congress of Aichi Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. To find out more about the presentation please contact: Dr. Atsurou Yamada (Language: Japanese or English)

2017

• Maeda, N, (2017). School refusal after the summer holiday: School-based behavioural approach for school refusal. Kyoiku to Igaku (Education and Medicine), 65, 812–820. Contact: Naoki Maeda.
• Ono, M. (2017). Comprehensive support through consultation with a school principal: Junior high school student with prolonged school non-attendance and non-support. The Japanese Journal of Special Education, 54, 307–315. Contact: Dr. Masahiko Ono.   
• Ono, M. (2017). Comprehensive support, shaping, and maintaining school attending behavior despite difficulty in changing conditions at the school: Junior high school student with prolonged school non-attendance.The Japanese Journal of Special Education, 55, 37–46. Contact: Dr. Masahiko Ono. 
• Yamada, A., Suzuki, M., Kyo, M., Katsuki, F., Shiraishi, N., Watanabe, N., & Akechi, T. (2017). Group psychoeducational programs improve mood profiles in mothers of non-attendance school children. Neuropsychiatry, 7, 637–643. Contact: Dr. Atsurou Yamada. 

Earlier

• Mennuti, R. B., Christner, R. W., & Freeman, A. (2012). Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions in Educational Settings: A Handbook for Practice (2nd ed.). New York: Routledge (Ishikawa S., Muto, T., & Sato, S. (2018). Tokyo: Tokyo: Kongo-shuppan). Contact: Dr. Shinichi Ishikawa. 
• Dr. Ishikawa (Doshisha University) is one of the translators of Japanese version of“When Children Refuse School: A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Approach Parent Workbook”, authored by Kearney, C. A., & Albano, A. M. (2007). He translated Chapter 5, “Children Refusing School Escape Painful Social and/or Evaluative Situations”. When Children Refuse School: A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Approach Parent Workbook. New York: Guilford (Sato, Y., & Sato, H., 2014). Tokyo: Iwasaki-gakujyutu-sshuppan. Pp. 65–91. (Language: Japanese) Contact: Dr. Shinichi Ishikawa. 
• Kawai, I., & Sakurai, K. (2000). School Refusal: Support for School Return (Futokou: Saitoko no shien). Nakanishiya-shuppan. This book was introduced on the website of LIB Psychoeducation Research Institution.