Psychosocial perspectives in the treatment of pediatric chronic pain.

The article discusses major psychosocial factors that affect pediatric pain and disability. It explores the chronic pain both in adolescents and children, which is linked with developmental experiences' major disruption crucial to quality of life, personal adjustment, and social and vocational success. It proposes an explanatory model for pain and functional disability's development and maintenance concepualization. It reviews systemic treatment and cognitive behavioral approaches based on representative evidence for functioning improvement in such pediatric population.