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Recent Developments in the Psychological Assessment and Management of Recurrent Headache Disorders

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Handbook of Health and Rehabilitation Psychology

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Abstract

Most people occasionally experience but are seldom disabled by headaches. However, epidemiological studies reveal that more than 8 million females and 2 million males are disabled with some frequency by migraine headaches alone (Stewart, Lipton, Celentano, & Reed, 1992). The number of new cases of disabling headaches each year has been estimated at more than 2 million, almost 1% of the population (Goldstein & Chen, 1982). It is thus not surprising that headache is one of the most frequent complaints presented in outpatient medical settings (DeLozier & Gagnon, 1975; Leviton, 1978). Because the vast majority of patients (probably over 95%) who seek medical assistance have headaches that do not result from any identifiable structural abnormality or disease state, a large industry has arisen to develop, produce, and market headache remedies.

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Holroyd, K.A., French, D.J. (1995). Recent Developments in the Psychological Assessment and Management of Recurrent Headache Disorders. In: Goreczny, A.J. (eds) Handbook of Health and Rehabilitation Psychology. Springer Series in Rehabilitation and Health. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1028-8_1

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