Body Images and Pediatric Burn Injury

  • Thomas Pruzinsky
  • Marion Doctor
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Abstract

Body image is a critical variable in understanding children and adolescent’s adjustment to burn injury (Bernstein, 1976; Stoddard, 1982). The primary goal of this chapter is to provide a broad theoretical, clinical, and empirical overview of the influence of body-image factors in children and adolescents’ adjustment to burn injury. However, when considering body-image adjustment we must also consider the total socioemotional adjustment of the patient and family to the burn injury; including such critical variables as social support, child temperament, existence of psychopathology, and the family’s socioeconomic status (Bernstein, 1976, 1990; Tarnow-ski, Rasnake, Gavaghan-Jones, & Smith, 1991).

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Body Image Physical Appearance Social Skill Training Physical Competence Facial Deformity 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Thomas Pruzinsky
    • 1
  • Marion Doctor
    • 2
  1. 1.Department of PsychologyQuinnipiac CollegeHamdenUSA
  2. 2.Children’s Hospital Burn CenterUniversity of Colorado School of MedicineDenverUSA

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