Ron Blount , Ph.D.
Psychology
Phone:(706) 542-3012
rlblount@uga.edu

My areas of research fit within the umbrella of child health psychology/pediatric psychology. I am best known for my programmatic assessment and treatment research on children's pain, coping and distress during painful or frightening medical procedures. In the last few years my team and I have been actively involved in research on factors associated with medical adherence, quality of life, and medical outcomes in children in adolescents who have received an organ transplant, children's and parents' adaptation to chronic health conditions (pediatric GI disorders and cardiac conditions), child and family factors that influence chest pain in children, and post-traumatic growth in families experiencing illness. Medical fear and pain, organ transplantation, pediatric cardiology, and pediatric GI disorders are several major focus areas in the immediate future. Additional areas are possible likely.

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