title: Topical Review: Resilience Resources and Mechanisms in Pediatric Chronic Pain.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To apply resilience theory and the extant literature to propose a resilience-risk model for pediatric chronic pain and provide an agenda for research and clinical practice in pediatric chronic pain resilience.
  
  
  METHODS
  Literature review to develop a resilience-risk model for pediatric chronic pain.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The chronic pain literature has identified unique individual and social/environmental resilience resources and pain-related resilience mechanisms that promote pain adaptation. These data support our ecological resilience-risk model for pediatric chronic pain, and the model highlights novel directions for clinical and research efforts for youth with chronic pain.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The examination of pediatric chronic pain from a strengths-based approach might lead to novel clinical avenues to empower youth to positively adapt and live beyond their pain.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Georgia State University, lcousins1@student.gsu.edu.
authors.forename: Laura A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Cousins
authors.affiliation: Harvard University.
authors.forename: Sreeja
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kalapurakkel
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Georgia State University.
authors.forename: Lindsey L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Cohen
authors.affiliation: P.A.I.N. Group, Boston Children's Hospital, Center for Pain and the Brain, Harvard Medical School, Division of Pain Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, and Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School.
authors.forename: Laura E
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: Simons
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D059350:Chronic Pain / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D055500:Resilience, Psychological
keywords: chronic and recurrent pain; coping skills and adjustment; psychosocial functioning; resilience