BACKGROUND Although literature provides support for cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) as an efficacious intervention for social phobia, more research is needed to improve treatments for children. METHODS Forty four Caucasian children (ages 8-14) meeting diagnostic criteria of social phobia according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed.; APA, 1994) were random...

Chronic diseases can adversely affect the development process of children. This qualitative, action-research study had the aim to analyze the effects of activities in the manual "Como H6spede no Hospital" (As a patient in the hospital) on the coping process of children with chronic diseases. Study participants included six children and adolescents aged seven to 13 years, who suffered from a chr...

The cognitive activation theory of stress (CATS) is based on a long series of experiments on animals and on humans, in the laboratory, and in real life situations. From the common sense coping concept formulated by Seymour Levine; coping is when my "tommy" does not hurt, we have advanced to a systematic theory for what is behind the relaxed and happy coping rat (and cat). We also cover the tran...

A method to triangulate the medial axis [1] is modified. In the new method the coping surfaces of a thin-wall object are used for insidedness but ignored for footpoints, yielding the mid-surface, not the medial axis. Three distinct contour-followers are employed. After a brief, manual tagging of the coping surfaces, the method is automatic. It computes a triangulation to arbitrary precision and...

OBJECTIVE To determine the contribution of psychological attributes (personality characteristics and coping styles) to the association between social class in childhood and adult health among men and women. DESIGN Partly retrospective, partly cross sectional study conducted in the framework of the Dutch GLOBE study. SUBJECTS Sample of general population from south east Netherlands consistin...