Practitioner review: Clinical applications of pediatric hypnosis

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 744-754

  Gold, Jeffrey I ^a,b   Kant, Alexis J ^b   Belmont, Katharine A ^b   Butler, Lisa D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Pediatric clinical hypnosis

Indexed keywords

ANTIEMETIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; HALOPERIDOL; IMIPRAMINE; PLACEBO; PROPRANOLOL; TOPICAL AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANXIETY DISORDER; ASTHMA; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BURN; CANCER PATIENT; CHEMOTHERAPY INDUCED EMESIS; CHILD; CHILD CARE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DYSPHAGIA; DYSPNEA; ECZEMA; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FOOD AVERSION; GILLES DE LA TOURETTE SYNDROME; GUIDED IMAGERY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; INJECTION SITE PAIN; INSOMNIA; LUNG DISEASE; MENTAL DISEASE; MYOCLONUS; NAUSEA; NOCTURNAL ENURESIS; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RELAXATION TRAINING; REVIEW; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SLEEP AROUSAL DISORDER; TOOTH EXTRACTION; TRICHOTILLOMANIA; VERRUCA VULGARIS; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; HUMANS; HYPNOSIS; MENTAL DISORDERS; SLEEP DISORDERS;

EID: 34547794725     PISSN: 00219630     EISSN: 14697610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2007.01759.x     Document Type: Review

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