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© The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society of Pediatric Psychology. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Commentary: The Psychological Impact of Pediatric Cancer Hardiness, the Exception or the Rule?a

Robert B Noll, PhD1 and Mary Jo Kupst, PhD2

1Child Development Unit, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA and 2Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA

All correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Robert B. Noll, PhD, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Child Development Unit, 3705 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213–2583, USA. E-mail: robert.noll@chp.edu.

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This commentary was written as a result of our participation in the Symposium on the Psychosocial and Neurocognitive Consequences of Childhood Cancer in honor of our colleague, Raymond Mulhern, who was a major leader in the field. The commentary has two purposes: (a) to briefly review research findings regarding psychosocial functioning of children and adolescents with cancer and other severe chronic illnesses; and (b) to propose a theoretical rationale that could account for an increasingly compelling and consistent body of research that consistently does NOT identify psychopathology or dysfunction in these children despite exposure to major challenges and trauma.

Since much of our research (R.B.N./M.J.K.) has already been published, we simply wanted to refer to the studies whose results suggest that most children with cancer adapt well in comparison to normative data; we have reported similar findings for other medical conditions such as sickle cell disease (Noll et al., 1996Go. . . [Full Text of this Article]


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