From: Behavioral management of headache in children and adolescents
Strengths | Limitations |
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Cost saving | It takes time to change same behaviors, so parents and teachers may find this frustrating. |
Ensure Compliance | Teach parents how work more effectively with their children can result in a poor compliance |
Maximize long term therapeutic benefit | The focus is “here and now” |
No negative side effects of medications | Therapist must maintain a sense of control and awareness |
Learning of new alternative ways of thinking and behaving | Patterns of behavior may change over the course of life |
Reduction of headache severity and frequency | It is not effective for people with severe mental disorder |
Reduce pain and disability | It does not always take into account individual differences |