Psychiatric assessment and treatment of pediatric pain.
OBJECTIVE
The clinical nurse specialist's role as part of a multidisciplinary pain team in assessing and treating children with pain, and children with co-morbid pain and a psychiatric diagnosis.


OBJECTIVE
To help nurse clinicians use relatively new assessment and treatment strategies in the arena of children's pain, gain a better understanding of pain's co-morbidity with psychiatric problems, and understand the nurse's important role in working with children with pain.


METHODS
Published literature: Pain assessment, theories of pain, psychiatric assessment, pain and psychiatric co-morbidity, treatment modalities for pain. A case study of a teenage girl with chronic pain and a psychiatric disorder.


CONCLUSIONS
Nursing interventions in pediatric pain assessment and treatment play a vital role in the child's and adolescent's physical and emotional rehabilitation from pain and psychiatric symptoms.
Hamrin
Vanya
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Yale University School of Nursing, New Haven, CT, USA. vanya.hamrin@yale.edu
D000293:Adolescent; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy / Q000451:nursing; D015897:Comorbidity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology; D009720:Nurse Clinicians; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D010146:Pain / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology; D010147:Pain Measurement / Q000451:nursing*; D010348:Patient Care Team; D010552:Personality Assessment; D011613:Psychotherapy