The Familial Emotional Expression Scale for Children and Adolescents (FEECHA) and an exploration of young headache patients' emotional expression.

Osterhaus, S. O. L.

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“…Woodbury, 1993) with crosssectional data sets as the bases for conclusions about parental and other family characteristics related to a specific disorder. Prospective longitudinal studies of normal samples are needed to elucidate mechanisms in the development of child psychosomatic problems (Osterhaus, 1999).…”

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Predictors of middle childhood psychosomatic problems: An emotion regulation approach

Hageküll

Bohlin

2004

Infant and Child Development

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Development of the psychosomatic problems picky eating and headache and stomachache complaints in middle childhood was investigated from an emotion regulation perspective. The role of negative emotionality and family emotion regulatory factors (attachment to mother and parental perceived control) was studied. The sample ðN ¼ 87Þ was a predominantly middleclass, community sample. The study was longitudinal, based on data from several data collections between child age 11 months and 9 years. The results showed that headache and stomachache complaints were mainly predicted by early negative emotionality, and picky eating by the family factors. More negative emotionality, insecure attachment and less perceived control were related to more psychosomatic problems in linear and interaction models. The findings were interpreted as showing that by considering emotion regulation, a fruitful perspective for understanding the development of psychosomatic problems could be elaborated. Copyright # 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Key words: psychosomatic problems; longitudinal prediction; middle childhood; negative emotionality; attachment; parental perceived controlThe present study aimed to prospectively investigate in a community sample the role of early individual and family factors for psychosomatic symptoms in middle childhood. Psychosomatic problems refer to physical symptoms or illnesses that result from the interplay of psychosocial and physiological processes (Sarafino, 1998). To enhance the understanding of the development of headache, stomachache and picky eating problems as seen in 8-9-year-old children, we applied an emotion regulation perspective with a focus on early negative emotional expressions (cf. Taylor, 1994). This should be a fruitful approach as negative emotions have been shown to be connected to psychosomatic problems, and there are clear relations between somatic complaints and the two main emotion-based psychiatric disorders, anxiety and depression (e.g.

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Predictors of middle childhood psychosomatic problems: An emotion regulation approach

Hageküll

Bohlin

2004

Infant and Child Development

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“…Aromaa, Sillanpa ¨a ¨, Rautava, and Helenius (2000) demonstrated in a sample of 96 children with primary headache that children suffering from tensiontype headache (TTH) lived in a psychosocially poorer family environment; the family atmosphere was more often described as unhappy, and the relationship between the parents was more frequently rated to be distant than in families of children suffering from migraines. Osterhaus (1999) developed an instrument for the assessment of a child's emotional expression within the family: the Familial Emotional Expression Scale for Children and Adolescents. Applying this instrument, she was able to show that young headache patients (n ϭ 101) express their worries and feelings of sadness within their family significantly less often than healthy controls (n ϭ 356).…”

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Primary Headache in Children and Adolescents: Therapy Outcome and Changes in Family Interaction Patterns.

Ochs¹,

Seemann²,

Franck³

et al. 2005

Families, Systems, & Health

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The present study, a qualitative case series report with a quantitative component, explores the relation between changes in family interaction patterns and therapy outcome at 9-month follow-up in a child-and familyoriented psychosocial treatment program developed to treat pediatric primary headache. Changes in the family interaction patterns of 38 children and adolescents diagnosed according to International Headache Society criteria were examined via qualitative methods. Therapy outcome was assessed on an 11-point numeric rating scale measuring the reduction of subjectively experienced global headache burden. At follow-up, 1 subgroup of families showed positive change, and a 2nd subgroup displayed either unchanged or worsened headache-associated interaction patterns. Participants from families with a positive change in headache-associated interaction patterns showed a 64% reduction (p ϭ .00) of global headache burden; participants with unchanged or worsened family interaction patterns showed only a 17% reduction. The findings are illustrated by case histories and discussed in the context of dynamic systems theory.

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Converging Trends in Family Research and Pediatrics: Recent Findings for the American Academy of Pediatrics Task Force on the Family

Wertlieb

2003

Pediatrics

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The Familial Emotional Expression Scale for Children and Adolescents (FEECHA) and an exploration of young headache patients' emotional expression.

Cited by 3 publications

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Predictors of middle childhood psychosomatic problems: An emotion regulation approach

Predictors of middle childhood psychosomatic problems: An emotion regulation approach

Primary Headache in Children and Adolescents: Therapy Outcome and Changes in Family Interaction Patterns.

Converging Trends in Family Research and Pediatrics: Recent Findings for the American Academy of Pediatrics Task Force on the Family

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