“…children's ability to cope with the emotional reactions caused by their illnesses, for instance to cope with headaches (King, Ollendick, Murphy, & Molloy, 1998;Sartory, Mueller, Metsch, & Pothmann, 1998), asthma (Creer, 1991) or anxiety (Armstrong, Collins, Greene, & Panzironi, 1988;Plantania-Solazzo, Field, Blank, & Seligman, 1992;King et al 1998). Systematic evaluations of the basic effects of relaxation techniques in the context of primary prevention are, however, rare in the literature.…”