Anxious school refusal in adolescence is a major public health problem. The involvement of families is essential and multi-family therapy has shown its effectiveness for many mental disorders. This study aims to explore the benefit of multi-family therapy in the care of anxious school refusal in adolescence.~The method will be qualitative with phenomenological analysis of semi-structured interviews with adolescents and their parents and quantitative with a SCED design to assess the evolution of the level of anxiety of adolescents and parents, as well as personalized objectives.~The objective is therefore to improve the care of adolescents with anxious school refusal.
The purpose of this study is to determine whether multi-family therapy is effective in the treatment of school refusal with anxiety in adolescence.