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Psychosocial Adjustment of People with Chronic Pain: A Conceptual Framework of Risk and Resistance Factors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 October 2015

Gloria K. Lee  and
Denise Mercurio-Riley
Gloria K. Lee*
Affiliation:
University at Buffalo — State University of New York, United States of America. glee4@buffalo.edu
Denise Mercurio-Riley
Affiliation:
University at Buffalo — State University of New York, United States of America.
*
*Address for correspondence: Gloria K. Lee, Associate Professor, Department of Counseling, School & Educational Psychology, Baldy 419, University at Buffalo — State University of New York, NY 14260-1000, USA.
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Abstract

The purposes of this review article are to gather existing evidence on the contributing factors in affecting the psychosocial adjustment among people with chronic pain, and to promote a comprehensive conceptual framework in this topic by adapting Wallander and colleagues' (1989) Risk and Resistance Model of Adjustment. Our intention is to promote future empirical research that will validate this working conceptual framework and will provide and clinical guidelines for rehabilitation professionals who work with people with chronic pain.

Keywords

chronic painpsychosocial adjustmentrisk factorsresistance factorsconceptual framework

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The Australian Journal of Rehabilitation Counselling , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , 01 March 2009 , pp. 40 - 60
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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