title: Behavioral management of psychogenic cough: alternative to the "bedsheet" and other aversive techniques.
abstract: The treatment of persistent psychogenic cough, a potentially debilitating condition among pediatric patients, can pose diagnostic and treatment dilemmas. Its treatment by the use of a procedure called reinforced suggestion technique was described previously. The use of an alternative procedure relying upon parental and self-monitoring of coughing and either social or material rewards for decreasing rates of coughing is presented.
authors.affiliation: Department of Child Psychiatry, Children's Memorial Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois.
authors.forename: J V
authors.initials: JV
authors.lastname: Lavigne
authors.forename: A T
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: Davis
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Fauber
mesh_terms: D001521:Behavior Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D002648:Child; D003371:Cough / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D012054:Reinforcement, Psychology; D013404:Suggestion