In this study we describe the responses of six adolescent girls with inflammatory bowel disease and their parents to a 10-session, manualized intervention program focusing on decreasing pain and functional disability in adolescents with a chronic illness, and increasing coping and sense of competency for their parents. Measures of adolescent physical symptoms and parenting sense of competence and coping were collected at pretreatment, post-treatment, and 6-month follow-up. Improvements were observed post-treatment and at 6 month follow-up on measures of adolescents’ pain and functional disability, as well as parents’ sense of competency and use of adaptive coping strategies.The potential effectiveness of this type of program and implications for its use are discussed.
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