title: Application of a stress and coping framework to one adolescent's experience with hospitalization.
abstract: The stress and coping framework proposed by Lazarus is utilized as a basis for understanding the responses of a 13-year-old boy hospitalized for corrective surgery. Interview data are presented to illustrate how the boy responded to particular aspects of the hospitalization experience.
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Stevens
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000298:Adolescent, Hospitalized / Q000523:psychology*; D001290:Attitude; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012600:Scoliosis / Q000523:psychology / Q000601:surgery; D013315:Stress, Psychological