Citation

Bouras G, Michopoulos I, Theofanopoulou N, Giannopoulou I, Christodoulou C, Dinopoulos A. J. Health Psychol. 2015; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Affiliation

Attikon University Hospital, University of Athens, Greece.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1359105315583368

PMID

25972349

Abstract

This article reports a case of a 5-year-old girl with clinical manifestations of a conversion disorder. Children presenting with a conversion disorder very often have multiple investigations and more than two-thirds of them are admitted to the hospital. This case illustrates the necessity of adapting, from the outset, a multidisciplinary approach to diagnosis and management, which helps in providing an explanatory model that takes into account stressors, factors within the child and the family, and aids in planning an appropriate psychotherapeutic intervention based on the child's and family's needs.

Language: en