Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ590662
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1999
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There Is No Shame in Pain: Coping and Functional Ability in Adolescents with Sickle Cell Disease.
Robinson, M. Renee
Journal of Black Psychology, v25 n3 p336-55 Aug 1999
Discusses coping and personal adjustment to chronic pain for adolescents with sickle cell anemia and presents a model of illness behavior for these adolescents. Offers a framework of disease severity and disease impact, and suggests using functional ability as an index of coping and personal adjustment. Contains 59 references. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Blacks, Coping, Models, Pain, Physical Health, Psychological Patterns, Sickle Cell Anemia
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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