1. Intermittent abdominal pain in a 6-year-old child: the psycho-social-cultural evaluation
- Author
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Crosby Troha, Brian Stafford, and Barbara A Gueldner
- Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty ,Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder ,Referral ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Islam ,Recurrence ,Medicine ,Western world ,Humans ,Girl ,Psychiatry ,Child ,media_common ,business.industry ,Hygiene ,Mental health ,Abdominal Pain ,Distress ,Phobic Disorders ,Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health ,Normative ,Female ,business ,Psychosocial ,Acculturation ,Diversity (politics) - Abstract
The dramatic surge in diversity in the western world requires a commitment by pediatric providers to understand unique psychosocial presentations of distress, as well as to have an understanding of normative cultural values and health-seeking behaviors. We report a case of apparent recurrent abdominal pain that evolved into a unique culturally salient presentation of obsessive compulsive disorder in a 6-year-old young girl. Access to integrated mental health professionals assisted in the identification of this disorder, if not success in referral and treatment.
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- 2009