Intermittent abdominal pain in a 6-year-old child: the psycho-social-cultural evaluation.
The dramatic surge in diversity in the western world requires a commitment by pediatric providers to understand unique psychosocial presentations of distress, as well as to have an understanding of normative cultural values and health-seeking behaviors. We report a case of apparent recurrent abdominal pain that evolved into a unique culturally salient presentation of obsessive compulsive disorder in a 6-year-old young girl. Access to integrated mental health professionals assisted in the identification of this disorder, if not success in referral and treatment.
Stafford
Brian
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Department of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, University of Colorado, Denver, USA. Stafford.brian@tchden.org
Troha
Crosby
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Gueldner
Barbara A
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D015746:Abdominal Pain / Q000523:psychology*; D000069:Acculturation; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006920:Hygiene; D007514:Islam / Q000523:psychology*; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology; D010698:Phobic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology; D012008:Recurrence