ABSTRACT
Pain is an unpleasant sensory, emotional, and cognitive event. It may be experienced with
or without actual tissue injury. Even when pain is reported in the absence of a clear
physiological basis, it should still be accepted by clinicians as pain (IASP Task Force on
Taxonomy, 1994). Children and adolescents learn about pain through direct experience,
as well as others’ pain-related reports and expressions (Gil, Williams, Thompson, &
Kinney, 1991).
