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Cognitive Approaches to Pain Control: Common Factors Underlying Their Effectiveness
Author(s) -
KONGSTVEDT SHERYL J.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
journal of counseling and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.805
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1556-6676
pISSN - 0748-9633
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6676.1987.tb00701.x
Subject(s) - expectancy theory , cognition , pain control , control (management) , psychology , life expectancy , cognitive psychology , medicine , computer science , social psychology , psychiatry , artificial intelligence , surgery , population , environmental health
The author reviews the cognitive approaches to pain control and discusses how expectancy of success in general and self‐efficacy in particular mediate successful outcomes.