Bolstering personal control in child patients through coping interventions.
Beliefs about control have been shown both clinically and empirically to be associated with children's distress reactions to medical events. This article focuses on bolstering children's control through coping strategies found useful to children in ameliorating their distress responses during illness and/or hospitalization.
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D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D002648:Child; D002673:Child, Hospitalized / Q000523:psychology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D010989:Play Therapy; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative / Q000523:psychology*