In a recent issue of Pain, Jensen et al.(1991) presented a review of the literature on coping
with chronic pain. Their review was important in several respects. First, it provided a timely …

A growing number of investigators have used models of stress and coping to help explain
the differences in adjustment found among persons who experience chronic pain. This …

Patients and clinicians sometimes take coping with chronic pain primarily as a process of
gaining more control over pain. An alternate approach might include helping the pain …

The purpose of this chapter is to describe and evaluate the psychometric assessment tools
avail-able to clinicians and researchers to assess both pain beliefs and patients' efforts to …

Previous research has demonstrated a relationship between cognitive pain coping activity
and adjustment in pain patients. The empirically derived dimensions of coping activity, as …

We analyzed and compared the psychometric properties of two measures of strategies for
coping with pain: The Coping Strategies Questionnaire (CSQ) and the Cognitive Coping …

'Coping'is an alluring idea. In the last 20 years, for example, PAIN has published four
reviews, three editorials, and over 70 empirical studies with the word 'coping'in the title …

Geissen Robinson, and Riley present a stimulating conceptual model of coping with chronic
pain in which the authors argue that maladaptive beliefs and coping are primary …

Research and treatment of chronic pain over the past 20 or more years have tended to focus
on patient coping as the primary behavioral contribution to adjustment. The purpose of the …

Cognitive-behavioral models of chronic pain hypothesize that how a person copes with pain
influences how well he or she adjusts to the pain. Several measures have been developed …