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Title: Intergenerational Transmission of Illness Behavior
SSW Investigator(s):
Rona L. Levy, PI. Shelby Langer, Co-PI. Sheri Ballard.
Non-SSW Investigator(s):
Joan Romano, UW-Psychiatry and Beh. Sci Dennis Christie,Seattle Childrens Gastroenter
Description:
The primary aim of this research is to evaluate an intervention that teaches children and their parents cognitive behavioral strategies for managing the child’s symptoms of Recurrent Abdominal Pain and teaches parents social learning strategies to reinforce and model healthier ways for their children to respond to somatic discomfort.
Funding Sources: NIH/NICHD
Start/End Dates: May 2003 through March 2009