Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- General abbreviations
- Basic science abbreviations
- PART 1 BASIC SCIENCE
- PART 2 PAIN ASSESSMENT
- Section 2a Pain measurement
- Section 2b Diagnostic strategies
- PART 3 PAIN IN THE CLINICAL SETTING
- Section 3a Clinical presentations
- Section 3b Pain syndromes
- PART 4 THE ROLE OF EVIDENCE IN PAIN MANAGEMENT
- PART 5 TREATMENT OF PAIN
- Section 5a General Principles
- Section 5b Physical treatments
- Section 5c Pharmacology
- Section 5d Psychosocial
- 44 Psychological management of chronic pain
- 45 Psychiatric disorders and pain
- 46 Chronic pain and addiction
- 47 The role of the family in children's pain
- 48 Palliative care
- PART 6 SUMMARIES
- Glossary
- Index
47 - The role of the family in children's pain
from Section 5d - Psychosocial
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- General abbreviations
- Basic science abbreviations
- PART 1 BASIC SCIENCE
- PART 2 PAIN ASSESSMENT
- Section 2a Pain measurement
- Section 2b Diagnostic strategies
- PART 3 PAIN IN THE CLINICAL SETTING
- Section 3a Clinical presentations
- Section 3b Pain syndromes
- PART 4 THE ROLE OF EVIDENCE IN PAIN MANAGEMENT
- PART 5 TREATMENT OF PAIN
- Section 5a General Principles
- Section 5b Physical treatments
- Section 5c Pharmacology
- Section 5d Psychosocial
- 44 Psychological management of chronic pain
- 45 Psychiatric disorders and pain
- 46 Chronic pain and addiction
- 47 The role of the family in children's pain
- 48 Palliative care
- PART 6 SUMMARIES
- Glossary
- Index
Summary
What is the family's role in children's pain? Can the family increase, decrease or change the nature or the experience of pain? Can the family create and extinguish pain? If such things are possible, then the reason for pain goes beyond the merely physical factors of site, size and nature of insult, and is seen to be the result of an interpretative process rather than direct perception. The way the family functions and communicates are factors to be taken into account. Formats for pain management in a family setting vary from in-group to individual family sessions.
Pain of organic origin
Family support
Child
While there are many different family scenarios, the most straightforward is dealing with obvious medical or physical pain in the context of an open and well functioning family.
Scenario 1
When I first saw Dennis in the waiting room he was the very picture of misery, softly crying with persistent pain as he sat hunched and drooping on the seat. His skin (red all over) and hair (standing up in spikes with all the grease that had been spread on his scalp) were the external complications of his severe eczema. The severe skin itch worried him 24 h a day, as he slept poorly and scratched all night.
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- Core Topics in Pain , pp. 311 - 316Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005