The Use of Self-Hypnosis by Children with Cancer

Labaw, Wallace; Holton, Charlene P.; Tewell, Karen; Eccles, Doris

doi:10.1080/00029157.1975.10403749

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“…While hypnotized, patients can be given suggestions for specific treatment objectives, such as increasing food intake or undergoing chemotherapy. 40 Furthermore, while in hypnosis, patients can be led through a series of events (e.g., those associated with ANV) in a technique similar to SD.…”

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Behavioral Interventions in Treating Anticipatory Nausea and Vomiting

Figueroa-Moseley

Jean‐Pierre

Roscoe

et al. 2007

J Natl Compr Canc Netw

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Anticipatory nausea and vomiting (ANV) is associated with a significant reduction in the quality of life for many chemotherapy patients. The use of 5-hydroxytryptamine type 3 receptor antagonists provides some relief for chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting, but does not seem to control ANV. Nonpharmacologic approaches, which include behavioral interventions, may provide the greatest promise in relieving symptoms. Little evidence supports the use of complementary and alternative methods, such as acupuncture and acupressure, in relieving ANV. Behavioral interventions, especially progressive muscle relaxation training and systematic desensitization, should be considered important methods for preventing and treating ANV.

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“…Hypnosis involves a passive type of muscle relaxation and, possibly, also distraction. [40][41][42][43] Although the initial sessions are usually therapist-directed, some patients can learn to induce the state themselves. Thus, a therapist need not be present during chemotherapy.…”

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Behavioral Interventions in Treating Anticipatory Nausea and Vomiting

Figueroa-Moseley

Jean‐Pierre

Roscoe

et al. 2007

J Natl Compr Canc Netw

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“…The early research on hypnosis with children (e.g., LaBaw, Holton, Tewell, & Eccles, 1975), adolescents (e.g., Ellenberg, Kellerman, Dash, Higgins, & Zeltzer, 1980), and adults (e.g., Dempster, Balson, & Whalen, 1976) suggested that hypnosis could reduce nausea, vomiting, pain, and the negative emotions associated with chemotherapy. Though encouraging, this early research was more heuristically than empirically valuable because it did not report objective data, use statistical analyses, or employ adequate methodological controls.…”

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Etiology and treatment of the psychological side effects associated with cancer chemotherapy: A critical review and discussion.

Carey¹,

Burish²

1988

Psychological Bulletin

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Cancer patients receiving chemotherapeutic treatments routinely experience a wide range of distressing side effects, including nausea, vomiting, and dysphoria. Such symptoms often compromise patients 1 quality of life and may lead to the decision to postpone or even reject future, potentially life-saving, treatments. In this article, we discuss the hypotheses that have been offered to explain the development of such symptoms. We also review, in greater detail, the research evidence for the efficacy of five treatments for such symptoms: hypnosis, progressive muscle relaxation training with guided imagery, systematic desensitization, attentional diversion or redirection, and biofeedback. We discuss the implications of this treatment research, paying particular attention to factors associated with treatment outcome, mechanisms of treatment effectiveness, and issues associated with clinical application. Chemotherapy is the treatment of choice for hundreds of thousands of cancer patients diagnosed each year in the UnitedStates (Silverberg & Lubera, 1986). Its frequent use with cancer patients is the result of recent advances in antineoplastic medication; new and more effective medications have increased the life expectancy for many patients and, in some cases, have resulted in remission and cure. Unfortunately, such long-term gain can come at considerable short-term cost to the cancer patient in the form of aversive and debilitating side effects. Among the more common drug-induced side effects are alopecia, stomatitis, immunosuppression, anorexia, nausea, and vomiting.In addition to these pharmacological side effects, chemotherapy patients also experience psychological side effects.Psychological side effects, which should not necessarily be regarded as abnormal or indicative of psychopathology, are those that cannot be attributed directly to the antineoplastic medications; instead, such symptoms are believed to result from psychological processes (e.g., learning) that occur in the chemotherapy context. These symptoms can occur before chemotherapy (in which case they are referred to as anticipatory side effects) as well as during and after the actual chemotherapy infusion. When they occur after chemotherapy has been administered (and while the drugs remain pharmacologically active within the system), it is practically impossible to distinguishWe wish to thank Kate B. Carey and the anonymous reviewers for their many helpful suggestions on an earlier draft of this review.

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“…Children seem more adept than adults in using hypnosis to control pain (Wakeman & Kaplan, 1978), and a major interest recently has been its value in reducing the pain and anxiety associated with procedures. Severed systematic studies have confirmed its value with procedures such as lumbar punctures and marrow aspirations (Zeltzer & Le Baron, 1982;Hilgard & Le Baron, 1982), and this has led to its increasing use with patients suffering from severe burns (La Baw, 1973), haemophilia Sanders, 1981) and cancer (La Baw, Holton, Tewell & Eccles, 1975;Olness, 1981). If this initial promise is confirmed, then hypnosis may prove to have a place in the management of children whose illnesses require them to undergo frequent painful procedures.…”

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The Use of Self-Hypnosis by Children with Cancer

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Behavioral Interventions in Treating Anticipatory Nausea and Vomiting

Behavioral Interventions in Treating Anticipatory Nausea and Vomiting

Etiology and treatment of the psychological side effects associated with cancer chemotherapy: A critical review and discussion.

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