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Behavioral/Environmental Considerations in Pediatric Inpatient Care

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Behavioral Pediatrics

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Behavioral pediatrics has typically emphasized two areas of interface between the behavioral sciences and pediatric medicine. One is the identification, treatment, and prevention of childhood behavior problems through routine clinic and well-child visits (Christophersen & Rapoff, 1979). The second is the use of behavioral procedures to correct primary medical problems and those secondary to particular medical conditions. For example, behavioral procedures have been demonstrated to be effective in reducing seizures (Cataldo, Russo, & Freeman, 1979; Zlutnick, Mayville, & Moffat, 1975), in the treatment of neuromuscular disorders (Cataldo & Bird, in press; Cataldo, Bird, & Cunningham, 1978), in treating fecal incontinence secondary to myelomeningocele (Whitehead, Parker, Masek, Cataldo, & Freeman, 1981) and in dealing with pediatric chronic pain (Varni, Bessman, Russo, & Cataldo, 1980).

Preparation of this paper and conduct of the work on which it is based were supported in part by Grant 917 from Maternal and Child Health and Grant 9 MPH 1077 JHH from the Morris Goldseker Foundation. This work has been a joint effort of the Kennedy Institute and the Behavioral Medicine Program of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

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    Michael F. Cataldo

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Cataldo, M.F., Jacobs, H.E., Rogers, M.C. (1982). Behavioral/Environmental Considerations in Pediatric Inpatient Care. In: Russo, D.C., Varni, J.W. (eds) Behavioral Pediatrics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9403-8_8

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