Abstract
Youth admitted to pediatric hospitals face a variety of emotional challenges throughout their stay. In addition to feeling compromised by their acute medical condition, managing the requirements imposed by hospital care can intensify the potential for behavioral dysregulation. Even meeting basic behavioral expectations often requires children to be highly vulnerable, uncomfortable, and in pain, having to trust a parade of people routinely delivering aversive interventions, all in the context of overwhelmed caregivers. Behavioral medicine approaches are thus essential for supporting adaptive coping to optimize emotional and pathophysiological recovery. Clinical implementation requires integration of emotional and behavioral health initiatives into medical services across the broadest of disciplines with hospital-wide vigilance to safety risks. Providers can support behavioral resiliency by nurturing youth who are hospitalized to become increasingly active agents in their care while bolstering the consistency of their behavioral expectations through effective communication and an empathic treatment approach tailored to their socioemotional needs. [Pediatr Ann. 2018;47(8):e323-e327.].
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