This volume is designed to help pediatric health professionals gain a true understanding of childhood pain. Pain is the most common reason for children to seek a medical consultation and sometimes is the most common reason for avoiding it. Unaddressed fears and anxiety complicate pain management and recovery. This book comprehensively examines children's fears and anxieties that accompany their need for pain relief, and gives the professional the communication skills and words that can help calm these fears. This book is addressed to all disciplines, and is organized into three parts: Part I explores the scientific understanding of pain as a part of children s development; Part Ii explores pain treatments themselves, their efficacies and how to combine them for therapeutic impact; and Part Iii uses this understanding to help translate knowledge into clinical practice in three major arenas of pediatric health care and the general practice setting: the physicians office, the dentist's office, and in the hospital. Without doubt, this volume will become a standard on pediatric pain management for many years to come.

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Like a breath of fresh air, Dr. Kuttner brings clarity, authority, and evidence to this crucially important area of paediatric practice. She allows the patient s voice to be heard, grounds her advice in what is known about best practice, but remains sensitive to the needs of the health professionals, who are trying to help now. Bravo! --Christopher Eccleston, PhD. Director, Centre for Pain Research, The University of Bath, UK

Dr. Kuttner has provided simple, clear guidance for health professionals of every discipline, with just the right balance of research evidence made real by countless patient stories that bring the science to life. This book will be required reading for students and residents rotating through our clinic. There is no other book that fills this niche easy to read, yet packed with practical advice and strategies that every pediatric clinician can use every day. --G Allen Finley MD, FRCPC FAAP, Professor of Anesthesia and Psychology, Dalhousie University, Medical Director, Pediatric Pain, IWK Health Centre, Halifax, Canada

Dr. Kuttner and her contributors have distilled their rich experience providing integrative care for young people in pain to create an exceptional book that is comprehensive, practical and compassionate. Written with integrity, it speaks to us in the clear voice it would have us use to help children find comfort. This book is profound. --Laurence I. Sugarman, MD, Clinical Associate Professor in Pediatrics, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, President, American Board of Medical Hypnosis

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