Behavioral management of psychogenic cough: alternative to the "bedsheet" and other aversive techniques |
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Authors: | J V Lavigne A T Davis R Fauber |
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Institution: | Department of Child Psychiatry, Children's Memorial Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois. |
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Abstract: | The treatment of persistent psychogenic cough, a potentially debilitating condition among pediatric patients, can pose diagnostic and treatment dilemmas. Its treatment by the use of a procedure called reinforced suggestion technique was described previously. The use of an alternative procedure relying upon parental and self-monitoring of coughing and either social or material rewards for decreasing rates of coughing is presented. |
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