Pain catastrophizing predicts verbal expression among children with chronic pain and their mothers

Health Psychology Open

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Langer, Shelby L ^a   Romano, Joan M ^a   Liu, Qimin ^a   Levy, Rona L ^a   Nielson, Heather ^b   Brown, Jonathon D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b SEATTLE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Catastrophizing; Children; Communication; Emotions; Pain

Indexed keywords

EID: 85016091950     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20551029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2055102916632667     Document Type: Article

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