Cognitive-behavioral and self-management perspectives on chronic pain emphasize the
central role that patients' appraisals of their pain problems may have in determining aspects …

Pain coping strategies have been shown to be associated with severity of pain and well as
physical and psychological functioning among patients with chronic pain. Assessment of …

Objectives Coping and beliefs are cornerstones to our understanding of adjustment to
chronic pain. This study sought to test the hypothesis that maladaptive pain-related coping …

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 …

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 …

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 …

A reduction of maladaptive responses to pain is crucial in adjustment to chronic painful
states. However, previous research has also demonstrated that adjustment to pain is …

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 …

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 …

When a patient suffers from chronic pain and disability there are different ways of
approaching the problem. One approach is to focus on the patient's environment and …