Reassurance Therapy

Abstract

Reassurance therapy consists of six, sequential obligatory steps: [1] eliciting a detailed description of the symptom, [2] eliciting the affective meaning of the symptom, [3] examining the patient, [4] making a diagnosis, [5] explaining the symptom to the patient, and [6] reassuring the patient. The omission of one or more of these steps results in ineffective reassurance.