Overview of Children’s Memories of Pain and Implications for Practice from a Developmental and Clinical Perspective (아동 통증 기억 연구의 동향과 발달 및 임상적 관점의 응용적 함의에 관한 고찰)

Seungjin Lee (이승진); kjkwak (곽금주)

Overview of Children’s Memories of Pain and Implications for Practice from a Developmental and Clinical Perspective

THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
2015, 28(4), pp.155-180
Publisher : The Korean Society For Developmental Psychology
Research Area : Social Science > Psychological Science

Seungjin Lee ¹, kjkwak ¹

¹서울대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

The memories children have regarding past experiences of pain may have a considerable amount of influence on children’s responses to pain under clinical contexts or long-term treatment and interventions. The present study examined the trends in foreign studies on children’s memories of pain to inspect the values of such studies in terms of developmental and clinical contexts. More specifically, this study sought to examine the academic definition of pain memory, development of pain memories, individual differences in pain memories, cognitive and social developmental characteristics of pain memories, circumstantial or methodological factors of memory-based interviews, and prevention of negative memories of pain. Based on such review of literature, this study asserted the demand for psychological studies related to children’s pain memories in South Korea and further discussed the implications of pain memory studies. Moreover, the study also discussed the implications of the need for a qualitative improvement of pain-inducing environments in order to promote physical and mental wellbeing of children under developmental and clinical contexts.

KEYWORDS

child, pain memory, painful experience, health care intervention, developmental perspective, clinical perspective

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.

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