Treating Functional Abdominal Pain in Children

Nancy L. Zucker is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences and Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University, and Founder and Director of the Duke Center for Eating Disorders in Durham, North Carolina. Katharine L. Loeb is Director of Research and Training at the Chicago Center for Evidence Based Treatment, Illinois. She is a Fellow in the Academy for Eating Disorders and in the Association for Psychological Science. Martha E. Gagliano is a retired pediatrician in Durham, North Carolina. She completed her internship, residency, and a Robert Woods Johnson Fellowship in Academic General Pediatrics at Duke, then worked for thirty-five years as a general pediatrician at Durham Pediatrics, part of the Duke University Health System. In retirement she continues to volunteer at the American Board of Pediatrics.

'Dr. Zucker's beautifully written and creatively illustrated book Treating Functional Abdominal Pain in Children fills a big gap in our knowledge of and provides therapeutic tools for children suffering from these common chronic disorders. The innovative and validated treatment approaches as developed by Dr. Zucker over more than a decade of working with such patients, explained in practical detail proposed by her and her co-authors, are a welcome and much needed addition to the field. I cannot think of any publication in this field of medicine that is as informative, entertaining and filled with actionable strategies for young patients suffering from chronic abdominal pain. Parents, patients and physicians will love this book!' Emeran A. Mayer, M.D., Distinguished Research Professor, Departments of Medicine, Physiology and Psychiatry, David Geffen School of Medicine; Executive Director, G. Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress and Resilience, Co-director, CURE: Digestive Diseases Research Center, UCLA

• Part I. The Background Science and Behind Feeling and Body Investigators: 1. Becoming a feeling and body investigator – pain division; 2. Visceral sensitivity as a superpower; 3. Responsive parenting and creating safety; 4. Discriminating safe from threatening body sensations: the science of interoceptive exposures; 5. The medical evaluation of abdominal pain in children, one general pediatrician's approach; Part II. A Session by Session Guide to Feeling and Body Investigators: 6. Initiation into feeling and body investigators; 7. The eats; 8. The explosions; 9. The zoomies and shakies Part I; 10. The Blahs; 11. The ouchies; 12. Session 7: The drowsies; 13. Session 8: The zoomies and shakies Part 2; 14. Session 9: the soothies; 15. FBI-Pain division chapter 15: session 10, the celebration…and the next leg of our journey..; Part III. Sample Workbook Pages, Handouts, and Additional Resources for Feeling and Body Investigators: Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Appendix 3.