Pediatric migraine teaching for families.

Purpose: Child and family education regarding management of pediatric migraine is essential to reduce acute pain, prevent chronic daily migraine, and minimize the total number of headache attacks. This paper summarizes current evidence and provides a foundation for family teaching.

Conclusions: Effective management of pediatric migraine can be achieved with a combination of individually tailored biobehavioral strategies, lifestyle modifications, and optimal scheduling of rescue and preventative pharmacologic treatment.

Categorical service allocation and barriers to care for children with chronic conditions.

Parents raising children with chronic conditions face the challenge of locating and coordinating appropriate community-based resources and services for their child. The purpose of this secondary analysis was to determine parents' view of the mechanisms used to allocate health, education, and social services to children with chronic illness and disability and their caregiving families. A thematic analysis was conducted on data from interviews with 30 mothers and 13 fathers.

Children with chronic continence problems: the challenges for families.

For families who are raising children with myelomeningocele, bowel and bladder incontinence presents unique challenges for everyday life. The Parenting and Childhood Chronicity model is used to describe the work of raising a child with a chronic condition in 6 areas, including medical care, adapted parenting, dealing with the systems, caring for siblings, maintaining relationships, and personal coping (keeping yourself going). This article provides an overview of the physiologic and developmental challenges inherent in this neural tube defect and illustrates the work that is involved in the child's care and the challenges of maintaining a balance in family life.

Parenting and Childhood Chronicity: making visible the invisible work.

The work required to raise a child with a chronic illness or disability is above and beyond that of raising a typical child. This article presents a model, Parenting and Childhood Chronicity (PACC), that was developed during an interpretive study with 43 parents of 34 children (aged 15 months to 16 years) with various chronic conditions, is presented. "Special needs parenting" describes the additional care that a child needs and includes medical care, parenting plus, and working the systems.