{"id":1625,"date":"2019-01-02T16:53:02","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T16:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/?p=1625"},"modified":"2019-01-02T16:53:02","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T16:53:02","slug":"the-conversation-young-people-suffering-chronic-pain-battle-isolation-and-stigma-as-they-struggle-to-forge-their-identities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/2019\/01\/02\/the-conversation-young-people-suffering-chronic-pain-battle-isolation-and-stigma-as-they-struggle-to-forge-their-identities\/","title":{"rendered":"The Conversation: Young people suffering chronic pain battle isolation and stigma as they struggle to forge their identities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row align-center\">\n<div class=\"small-12 medium-8 column\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/researchportal.bath.ac.uk\/en\/persons\/abbie-jordan\">Dr Abbie Jordan<\/a><a style=\"font-size: 16px\" href=\"https:\/\/researchportal.bath.ac.uk\/en\/persons\/abbie-jordan\">,<\/a>\u00a0a senior lecturer in Psychology, discusses how adolescence can be an especially challenging time for young\u00a0people with chronic pain \u2013 that is, pain that lasts for three months or longer; and how these young people find it particularly difficult to develop a sense of identity.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Jordan also discusses\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.lww.com\/painrpts\/Fulltext\/2018\/09000\/A_developmental_arrest__Interruption_and_identity.8.aspx\">a recent study<\/a>, which she carried out with colleagues in the UK and Canada, that built on existing research to see how young people with chronic pain tackle these challenges on their journey to adulthood. They conducted in-depth interviews with ten young people, aged 12 to 17 years, about their experiences of growing up with chronic pain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section>\n<div class=\"row align-center\">\n<div class=\"columns small-12 medium-8 article-content\">\n<div class=\"post-copy\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/young-people-suffering-chronic-pain-battle-isolation-and-stigma-as-they-struggle-to-forge-their-identities-108134\">Read the full article on The Conversation \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Abbie Jordan,\u00a0a senior lecturer in Psychology, discusses how adolescence can be an especially challenging time for young\u00a0people with chronic pain \u2013 that is, pain that lasts for three months or longer; and how these young people find it particularly...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":240,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brd"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}