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C S Hendler

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PubMed1984

Learned aversions to chemotherapy treatment.

Recent advances in behavioral psychology and its application in medical settings have yielded effective methods for reducing distress in patients undergoing cancer treatment. This article focuses on the control of anticipatory nausea and vomiting in patients receiving chemotherapy. Four behavioral methods (i.e., hypnosis used with guided imagery, progressive muscle relaxation training with imagery, biofeedback with imagery, and systematic desensitization) are evaluated. Clinical issues and the relevance of behavioral medicine to health education are addressed.

Biofeedback, Psychology↗
PubMed1981

Social factors influencing absenteeism due to illness in nursery school children.

An archival study involving data for 204 children enrolled in a nursery school examined social and other factors related to absenteeism from school due to reported illness. Parents' ratings of the child's sociability prior to entering school were inversely related to absenteeism rate during the first year of school after statistically controlling for socioeconomic class, birth order, sex, the child's early health history, and family and sibling interaction patterns. Additional analyses based on a subset of the sample indicated that teachers' perceptions of the children's sociability were also related to absentee rates (but not to parents' sociability ratings).

Absenteeism↗