Abstract
Abstract Professor Garralda points out that children whose powers of expression are more limited than those of adults, are likely to express distress as in the form of somatic symptoms. She cites evidence of the frequency of such problems both in the general population and in primary care, as well as in specialist paediatric and child psychiatry clinics. Whilst functional somatic symptoms in children generally have a good prognosis, they may be persistent and often cause distress to both the children ·and their families. In many aspects the aetiology and management of functional somatic symptoms in children differs little from that in adults but in children the family is of particular importance.
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