Behavioral management of psychogenic cough: alternative to the "bedsheet" and other aversive techniques.
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.
Lavigne
J V
JV
Department of Child Psychiatry, Children's Memorial Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois.
Davis
A T
AT
Fauber
R
R
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