Childhood chronic abdominal pain usually doesn’t have an organic etiology. It may cause social
impairment and emotional distress in children as well as their families. In view of cognitive and behavioral
aspect, passive coping style, maladaptive social modeling, and reinforced secondary gain could contribute
to the development and maintenance of pediatric somatization. Integrative etiological model includes
biological factors due to the enteric sensitization process, psychosocial factors which encompass family
influences, psychodevelomental vulnerability, and life event-related stress. These factors interact with each
other and manifest as various psychosomatic symptoms. In the treatment of childhood chronic abdominal
pain, multimodal treatment program, which includes cognitive behavioral therapeutic methods, emotional
support, family education, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, and so on, is known to be most effective