“…parents) who engage in high catastrophizing about someone else's (e.g. child's) pain will also be more attentive to the pain signals and pain cues of others (Sullivan, Martel, Tripp, Savard, & Crombez, 2006b, Van Damme, Crombez, & Lorenz, 2007c Vervoort et al, in press a), will become more distressed and fearful about the other's (Sullivan et al, 2006a;Vervoort et al, 2009), and may lead to enhanced social responses ranging from solicitous ones to the provision of negative responses to the sufferer's pain (Cano, 2004;. Both types of responses, however, are expected to maintain or increase the child's catastrophizing by reinforcing catastrophizing of the child, respectively further adding to the aversiveness of catastrophizers' pain experience (McCracken, 2005, Sullivan et al, 2001.…”