title: Incest and pelvic pain: the social worker as part of a research team.
abstract: This article suggests the valuable role a social worker can play as a researcher on a multidisciplinary team. In a study conducted by a gynecologist, a social worker, a psychiatrist, and a psychologist, women experiencing chronic pelvic pain were found to be profoundly affected by factors other than organic disease, such as traumatic early childhoods, psychopathology, and incest in a significant number of cases.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007179:Incest; D008297:Male; D010146:Pain / Q000523:psychology*; D010348:Patient Care Team; D010388:Pelvis; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D012106:Research; D012735:Sexual Dysfunction, Physiological / Q000628:therapy; D012947:Social Work