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Behavioral Aspects of Pediatric Burns pp 169–191Cite as

Body Images and Pediatric Burn Injury

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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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    Thomas Pruzinsky

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    Marion Doctor

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Pruzinsky, T., Doctor, M. (1994). Body Images and Pediatric Burn Injury. In: Tarnowski, K.J. (eds) Behavioral Aspects of Pediatric Burns. Issues in Clinical Child Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9389-5_7

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