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Somatization in children and adolescents across cultures
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Abstract
Somatization is ‘a tendency to experience and communicate somatic distress and symptoms unaccounted for by pathological findings, to attribute them to physical illness, and to seek medical help for them’. Somatization in children, as in adults, describes the presence of a range of physical symptoms not accounted for by physical pathology, which have an emotional or a communicative function, but could be attributed by the child, family, or both to an undiagnosed physical illness. Cultural factors play a significant role in somatization, influencing symptom expression, health-seeking patterns, and family and societal beliefs. This chapter conceptualizes somatization in children and adolescents through the lens of developmental psychopathology incorporating biopsychosocial and ecological systems frameworks, and discusses the impact of culture on somatization in children and adolescents and culture-bound syndromes in adolescents.
Title: Somatization in children and adolescents across cultures
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Abstract
Somatization is ‘a tendency to experience and communicate somatic distress and symptoms unaccounted for by pathological findings, to attribute them to physical illness, and to seek medical help for them’.
Somatization in children, as in adults, describes the presence of a range of physical symptoms not accounted for by physical pathology, which have an emotional or a communicative function, but could be attributed by the child, family, or both to an undiagnosed physical illness.
Cultural factors play a significant role in somatization, influencing symptom expression, health-seeking patterns, and family and societal beliefs.
This chapter conceptualizes somatization in children and adolescents through the lens of developmental psychopathology incorporating biopsychosocial and ecological systems frameworks, and discusses the impact of culture on somatization in children and adolescents and culture-bound syndromes in adolescents.
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