Our understanding of chronic pain involves complex brain circuits that include sensory,
emotional, cognitive and interoceptive processing. The feed-forward interactions between …

The purpose of this study was to assess and describe school functioning among adolescents
presenting for evaluation in a tertiary care pediatric chronic pain clinic. Adolescents (n = …

The amygdala, a small deep brain structure involved in behavioral processing through
interactions with other brain regions, has garnered increased attention in recent years in relation …

The current study examined the Fear Avoidance (FA) model of chronic pain in pediatric
chronic pain patients. Multiple structural equation models were tested in the current study with …

An important construct in understanding pain-related disability is pain-related fear. Heightened
pain-related fear may result in behavioral avoidance leading to disuse, disability, and …

Parental responses play a central role in the development and maintenance of children’s pain
behavior. Previous studies examining the impact of parental responses on children’s pain …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Pediatric debilitating chronic pain is a severe health problem,
often requiring complex interventions such as intensive interdisciplinary pain treatment (…

Parental responses to children with chronic pain have been shown to influence the extent of
the child’s functional disability, but these associations have not been well studied in relation …

The current study aimed to validate the child and parent pain catastrophizing scale in a
large chronic pain sample and to identify child pain catastrophizing clinical reference points. …

Objectives: To examine clinical outcomes of an interdisciplinary day-hospital treatment
program (comprised of physical, occupational, and cognitive-behavioral therapies with medical …