The Schoolchild with Encopresis
- 1 March 1981
- journal article
- Published by American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) in Pediatrics in Review
- Vol. 2 (9) , 285-290
- https://doi.org/10.1542/pir.2-9-285
Abstract
Often, a schoolchild with encopresis feels desperate, lacking a most primitive form of control, harboring a painful secret, susceptible to exposure and peer ridicule, wounded by the disdainful remarks of parents and siblings, and perplexed over why he messes. Often children with encopresis receive inconsistent care; management may vacillate from intentional disregard of the problem to active coercion or vindiction. Parents may be baffled by conflicting advice from neighbors, teachers, grandparents, pharmacists, and even pediatricians.Keywords
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