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Handbook of Clinical Behavioral Pediatrics

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Increasing numbers of children with headache problems are being referred to pediatric psychologists for evaluation and treatment. The impetus for this trend was provided by the rapid expansion of research literature supportive of biobehavioral treatment for headache and other pain syndromes in children (Masek, Russo, & Varni, 1984; Varni, Jay, Masek, & Thompson, 1986).

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115, USA

    Bruce J. Masek & Nancy L. Hoag

  2. The Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115, USA

    Bruce J. Masek & Nancy L. Hoag

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  1. University of Mississippi, University, Mississippi, USA

    Alan M. Gross

  2. University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, USA

    Ronald S. Drabman

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Masek, B.J., Hoag, N.L. (1990). Headache. In: Gross, A.M., Drabman, R.S. (eds) Handbook of Clinical Behavioral Pediatrics. Applied Clinical Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0505-7_6

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