Behavioral management of psychogenic cough: alternative to the "bedsheet" and other aversive techniques.

Lavigne, J V; Davis, A T; Fauber, R · Pediatrics · 1991

case_report · Level V

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Abstract

The treatment of persistent psychogenic cough, a potentially debilitating condition among pediatric patients, can pose diagnostic and treatment dilemmas. Its treatment by the use of a procedure called reinforced suggestion technique was described previously. The use of an alternative procedure relying upon parental and self-monitoring of coughing and either social or material rewards for decreasing rates of coughing is presented.

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