Children and adolescents commonly experience persistent physical symptoms that are not
clearly accounted for by identifiable medical illness or tissue pathology (Campo & Fritsch …

The somatoform disorders are a group of problems in which people suffer from somatic
symptoms or worry about bodily illness or deformity that cannot be accounted for by an …

Somatization is the term used here to describe physical symptoms or abnormal bodily
sensations that are not directly related to a physically based disease process. Somatization …

If one were to find a common denominator of the papers covered by this review, it is a
general agreement amongst their authors that the current concepts of somatization and …

Somatic sensations and symptoms are part and parcel of everyday life, with about 75% of
the general population experiencing some form of mild to severe physical complaint in any …

Most review articles and book chapters covering somatoform disorders in children and
adolescents begin similarly to those addressing adult somatoform illness, and with good …

Mental Disorders, 4th edition, text revision (DSM-IV-TR; American Psychiatric Association
[APA], 2000), include somatization disorder, undifferentiated somatization disorder …

There is a major need for an empirical evaluation of classification criteria for somatoform
disorders. The present study analyzes psychometric properties of the existing criteria for …

The main aim of this chapter is to provide a contemporary overview of the process of
somatization as it applies to somatoform disorders. To some extent, our discussion is …

Since its introduction in DSM–III, the Somatoform Disorders category has been a subject of
controversy. Critics of the grouping have claimed that it promotes dualism, assumes …