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Children’s Coping with Stressful Medical Procedures

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Handbook of Children’s Coping

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Childhood is a time in which children are cared for and protected by their parents. Medical procedures involving children thus provide a paradoxical situation for children and their families. Nowhere else in their experience are children subjected to a planned event that is frightening and often painful, while the parents look on passively or even assist in restraining the children. This same paradox of adult presence without protection, which presents such a challenge to children and their families, allows a unique opportunity for the investigation of how children cope with anxiety-provoking and painful experiences. Because most elective medical procedures are planned in advance, children and their families’ responses to a procedure can and have been meticulously explored through observation, interview, self-report, parent ratings, and physiological assessment (Peterson, 1984).

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Peterson, L., Oliver, K.K., Saldana, L. (1997). Children’s Coping with Stressful Medical Procedures. In: Wolchik, S.A., Sandler, I.N. (eds) Handbook of Children’s Coping. Issues in Clinical Child Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2677-0_12

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